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Using the Forum's 'Search' program I found this thread and merged yours with it.The family is getting into biking and we have a need to bring all 4 bikes with us in our 2013 Limited. Loading them in the cargo area works but is not ideal. We'd like to get a bike rack and at least one of the major brands says their trunk mount unit works with the 2013 Explorer but others who have the same design say theirs does not work.
Looking at the design of the hatch, I would think that attaching a trunk mount rack is not ideal due to how the spoiler gets in the way as well as the lack of gap at the forward edge of the spoiler not really being a good place to hook the straps in.
We're not really wanting to add a towing hitch and spend the extra money but from searching this forum it seems that's the only sensible thing to do.
Anyone using a trunk mount rack on a 5th gen explorer? Any other thoughts?
Peter