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Video Transcript for Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2009 Volkswagen Jetta Sportwagen

Install-trailer-wiring-2009-vw-jetta-sportwagen-56146 Today were working on the 2009 Volkswagen Jetta Sport Wagon. Were going to install the Curt powered Tail Light Converter part number 56146 and Power Converter Wiring kit 55151. Well go ahead and remove the spare tire and the truck contents and we need to access the manufactures wiring to both tail lights. So lets go ahead and remove the rear thresh hold. Weve got two fasteners on either side of the thresh hold. With the two screw fasteners removed, were going to gently pry up our thresh hold so that the fasteners underneath the thresh hold will release from the sheet metal.

Lets go ahead and set that aside because well reinstall it later. Now weve got a couple of access doors inside the trunk compartment that were going to go ahead and remove. Weve got a smaller one on the passengers side which as you can see gives us access to the rear tail light wiring and then weve got a larger one here on the drivers side. There is a cutout inside that you can peel back which will also give us access to the manufactures wiring. Now before we can begin to make our connections we need to identify which circuit is a running light, a blinker circuit and our brake light.

So lets go ahead and test with the back of the pin so that we can identify. Ive got the running lights on and you can see the gray wire that comes from the top of the plug, its going to be for our running lights. Now Im going to turn my running lights off and my blinker off. And then our second here bottom pin is going to be for our blinker and that is a black wire with a white tracer. With my brake pedal pressed, our brake circuit is going to be the black wire with the red tracer.

For the passengers side, well repeat the same process to identify the circuit on the passengers side. Now that weve got our wires identified, Ill go ahead and take my converter box and start making my connections. We do the running lights first which is going to be the brown wire from my converter box. Well take our gray wire insert my click in connector, over it and insert the brown wire into the click in connector with it and clip it down. Next will be our break signal on the vehicle that was the black wire with the red tracer and on our converter box its going to be the red wire.

Well go ahead and do the same thing for the black wire with the white tracer which we identified as our blinker signal and that will be the yellow wire from our converter box. Weve got a few more connections to make here on the drivers side. We need to connect our power wire which is going to run to the batteries; we talked about it earlier, part number 55151. We also need to make a ground connection which is the white wire with the ring terminal. We need to take our green wire and our new 4-pole connector; were going to roll them behind the carpeting into the spare tire well for the 4-pole and then the green one will keep going over to the passengers side. To do this, Im going to use a piece of air tubing to fish them in behind the carpeting and the trim panel. Now that Ive got both of my 4-pole and the passengers side green wire into the spare tire compartment, Im going to take the 4-pole wire as it will end up being stored here in this spare tire well and I will continue on with my full wire, feed it in by the trim panel and up to the passengers side tail light. The next thing Im going to do is connect my power wire, then I will attach it to my pole wire and feed it into the spare tire well also. Our last wire that we need to run and connect over here on the drivers side is the white wire with the ring terminal which is going to be our ground. Theres not a lot of room in behind the tail light to connect it to the sheet metal from the ground, so what Im going to do is go ahead and use my pole wire again. Were going to run it into the spare tire well wall where we can make a good ground connection. Well tug the remaining wires in behind the carpeting; well go ahead and close the doors. Now using a soft tabbing screw, provided in our install kit, we can go ahead and fasten our ground wire here directly to the sheet metal. Just like on the drivers side the wire second from the bottom on the connector is our blinker signal for the manufacture that we will connect our green wire that came from our converter box to. Now that weve got all our wires running into the spare tire well and our green wire over the passengers side, we can go ahead and reinstall our rear thresh hold. Now were ready to go ahead and start routing our power wire. To rout our power wire outside the vehicle, were going to make a slit in the rubber grummet here at the rear spare tire well. Well simply take our wire and push it through the grummet. Now we can go underneath the vehicle, pull the rest of our wire through and start running it through the end of the compartment. Remember when youre routing your power wire, you want to stay away from moving components such as suspension and steering or excessive heat such as the exhaust. Well rout our power wires to the length of the vehicle, run it up into the engine compartment and well just pull it up. In this application Im going to have to cross the engine compartment and get over to the battery. First I want to find a suitable mounting location to bring it up and tie it off. I will go on and open the cover on the battery and here is where we connect to the battery terminal. Before we install our power wire directly to the battery we want to add a fuse holder. Well just go ahead and cut it into half. One side, were going to add a ring terminal that will connect to the battery. The other side well add a bud connector and add to our power wire. Before I add my fuse holder to the power wire, were going to go ahead and trim back some of the power wire and just cut off excess that we wont need. Alright with this connection point outside the vehicle, Ill like to go ahead and wrap it up with some black electrical tape just to keep it clean of any dir, debris and moist that might get in to the connector. Now we can go ahead and make our connection to the battery. You can see that weve not installed our fuse to the fuse holder yet, well do that after we make our connection. With my connection made to the battery, I will go ahead and close the cover back up, take my zip tie, secure the wires one more time here and then we can install our fuse in the fuse holder. Well go ahead and take my side cutters and cut off any excess from the zip ties I used. Lets go ahead and reinstall the spare tire and interior of the rear cargo area before we show you how to use your new 4-pole connection. Once were ready to use our 4-pole connector well simply open up the rear cargo door, pull our 4-pole connector out towards the center of the vehicle down to our hitch or accessory, we will simply close the door on the 4-pole connector as the leather stripping is sticking out that it wont harm the wire. We do however want to stay away from the latch because it could damage the wire. And once you have completed using your new 4-pole connection, simply open the door back up, roll up your 4-pole connector and store it inside the rear cargo area of the vehicle. And there you have it for our Curt Power Converter Wiring Kit and Power Tail Light Converter part number 56146 and 55151 on our 2009 Volkswagen Jetta Sports Wagon.