Not likely. Baseplate from a Wrangler might not even fit a different model or model year Wrangler.
How difficult to mount depends on where it attaches, whether or not chassis modifications are needed, and how much bodywork needs to be removed and replaced. I thought, from the instructions, putting a baseplate on my Honda Fit would be easy. I was considering all those years in my teens when I was doing body work in my dad's collision shop, i.e. coming to the job with some experience taking cars apart and putting them back together. It was not as easy as it looked.
I had planned to have a RV shop do it, but they couldn't get me in for a couple more weeks, and I was in a hurry. The job took me four hours, spread out over two days, in the sun on a concrete driveway. There was at least another six hours of cooling off and rehydrating.
Tearing apart the front end, and removing the inner bumper to get at the subframe horns, was easy, about an hour. Drilling two holes, laying under a low car, was hard. I had no idea how tough that subframe steel was, but it quickly dulled a titanium bit. I now know to figure at least one or two drill bits per hole. I had to remove some extra pieces (headlight, washer bottle) to get the drill into position. Bolting on the baseplate was easy. Reinstalling the inner bumper was hard, turned out that it is bowed, straightens out when removed, had to be leveraged back into position.
The job would have been easier with the car on a lift. The job would have been easier in a cooler space, or at least in the shade. It would have gone faster with a better drill and a good supply of bits. There were a couple of places where it would have been easier with a second pair of hands. The dealer, in making an installation estimate, considers these advantages you don't have DIY in the driveway.
Find out what baseplate model fits the vehicle you plan to tow, then download the installation instructions to decide whether this is work you want to do. I've you've not yet chosen a towbar, get instructions for a couple different brands, because sometimes Roadmaster, BlueOx and Demco do things in different ways, Roadmaster particularly because they don't always do a baseplate, it is often a pair of mounting brackets for a baseplate piece that comes with the tow bar. Roadmaster would have been a lot easier for me because it didn't bolt to the sides of the subframe horns, instead the baseplate replaced the Fit's inner bumper using the OEM mounting bolts. Some of the simplest installations I've seen consisted of bolting to the mounting points for factory tow hooks.
Tom Test
Itasca Spirit 29B
