Wiring Harness Installation - 2009 Honda Civic - Video
Tow Ready T-One Vehicle Wiring Harness by Draw-Tite, Hidden Hitch and Reese
- Provides a 4-pole flat trailer connector for the vehicle
- Quick and Easy
- No Cutting, Splicing or Taping
- Just Plug in the T-One Connector and You're Ready to Tow
- Solid One Piece Construction
- 16 Gauge Bonded Wire w/ 4-Flat Plug
- Factory Appearance
- Connector is Equipped with a Circuit Protected Taillight Converter
- Protects itself and the tow vehicle against harmful electrical shorts and mis-wire situations.
- Simple Do-It-Yourself Instructions on Every Package
Can be used with 5-pole, 6-pole or 7-pole adapters.
Installation: Connection points are located behind the vehicle taillights. Wire is routed from driver to passenger side below the threshold cover of the rear hatch. 4-pole trailer connector is stored in the cargo area of the vehicle when not in use.
Tech Tip: It is always a good idea to apply a small amount of grease to all electrical connections to help prevent corrosion.
- Warning:
- Overloading circuit can cause fires. Do not exceed lower of towing manufacturer rating or:
- Max. stop/turn light: 1 per side (2.1 amps)
- Max. tail lights: (5 amps)
Read vehicle's owners manual and instruction sheet for additional information.
This is a custom fit application for the following vehicles.
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2008 - 2010 Honda Accord 2 Door
2006 - 2009 Honda Civic 4 Door, except Si and Hybrid
2008 - 2010 Honda Accord 4 Dr. Sedan
2007 - 2008 Honda Fit 5 Dr. Sport Only
2004 - 2005 Mazda 3 All Models
2009 - 2010 Honda Fit All Models
2004 - 2009 Mazda 3 All Models, except Grand Touring
2007 - 2008 Honda Fit All, Including Sport
2010 - 2010 Mazda 3 Hatchback
2010 - 2010 Mazda 3 Sedan, except Grand Touring
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Feed the directions to the dog
Jim T, from Harleysville, PA
While the hitch went on my '06 Civic without a problem, this wiring harness allowed our neighbors to learn some new colorful hyphenated words, fitting to my level of aggravation!
While the quality of the product was certainly top-notch, the installation instructions were almost unintelligible, highly generic and ambiguous. I rolled them into a ball after 10 minutes and used them to play fetch with the dog. Here are some tips to make this a 10 minute deal instead of 1-1/2 hours that it cost me.
PREPARATION - After the trunk mat is out, remove the plastic interior trunk edge piece (about 2' long and right below the bottom of the trunk opening). To do this, lift up and inward at the same time. There are 4 plastic pins and a location tab that hold this in place. If you simply pull on it from the bottom, you'll break off the plastic locator tab. BE CAREFUL! Once this is off, simply remove the three plastic fasteners from the trunk material so as to gain access to the back of the tailights. It's helpful to have a partner hold this material out of the way while you work.
INSTALL - You'll see 4 groupings of wiring coming off the little black logic box, one is for the 4-pin trailer harness and the other three connect to the tailights. 2 of the wire groups (the one with the single yellow wire and the one with the 2 wires) go to the drivers side tailight and the single green wire goes to the passenger side tailight. There are 3 connectors on each tailight, each being different, so it's impossible to make an error connecting. These connectors remove by depressing a tab on the edge of the connector while pulling. For each of the 3 wire groups, simply attach the two connectors in series with the disconnected lead from each tailight. There is a main ground lug just below the drivers side tailight, and this is where you attach the white wire with the eyelett on the end.
REASSEMBLY - Get yourself some extra wire ties. Attach all of the excess wire to the factory loom. Now, pull the paper off the double-faced tape on the logic box and attach it to the flat surface just to the outside of the drivers side tailight (between the light and the fender). Reassemble all else, making sure that the interior panels fit into the groove in the trunk weatherstripping or the fasteners won't align. They don't tell you this, but the 4-pin trailer connection stays in the trunk when not in use, and the trunk shuts fine with the lead in use.
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Clyde T from Gwinn, MI
Good Product just what was advertised.
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Special thanks to Jim T!!!
Matt W from Richmond, VA
I actually owned this for roughly a year before installing the harness. Much like Jim, the hitch went on without a problem, and when I made it to the installation instructions for the harness, I stared at it and my trunk for 15 minutes and put it on the shelf....(yes, i have two engineering degrees.....) I settled for the main intended use of the hitch for carrying bikes :)
I decided to following Jims instructions this weekend when I went back to the website to find the "directions" again. Installation was complete within 10-15 minutes thanks to his painstaking instruction writeup. Key is to remove the strip edge piece first. I was able to do the right hookup without removing any panel fasteners, and only had to remove one for the left side (for those of you who try it without, you do have the proper wiring harness, there is a fourth plug above the other three for the missing harness connection (that cost me half of the installation time). A few tie wraps, a few snaps and back in business!! works like a charm. Thanks Jim, there was no need for you to do that but you made the world a better place from your effort!!!
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