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Not sure what to say. On the positive side, the finished installation looks very neat. And you saved about $150, if the autobody shop mods were free.
On the downside, I don't know how the bodyshop calculated the strength of the finished hitch. It is bolted to the sheetmetal at the rear, without the fore-aft tie-in that Drawtite designed into it. There is nothing to stop the hitch twisting up and down except the sheetmetal and that piece of flatbar.
While you will only be towing 1000 lbs, you may want to put a decal on the hitch so that in the future nobody assumes that the 6000 lb Class III 2" square receiver is able to tow what it was designed to. Drawtite would probably appreciate you taking their certification label off it as well.
Good luck.
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