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Hi, I'm Daniel with etrailer, and today we're going to be taking a look at, I'm going to show you how to install the Roadmaster 12 volt outlet kit on our 2026 Chevrolet Colorado. This kit is going to be for your portable braking systems like our Blue Ox here today. It's going to need a 12-volt constant power, but our vehicle needs a battery disconnect for this to be in flat tow mode, so we're not going to be able to use anything on the vehicle. So that's where our 12-volt outlet comes in place. That just connects directly to our battery, and we can plug this in and get power. Running our wire over to our battery is really simple, but I couldn't get the inline fuse through our grommet.
I would have to make a huge hole. So I just ended up cutting it and used a heat shrink buck connector to splice it back together. And it will come with an inline fuse. It will come with those cartridge fuses if you do need to replace one. It is really simple.
Now, if you have any further questions about what portable system's going to work best for you or anything else flat tow related, please feel free to reach out, I'd be happy to point in the right direction. As far as getting this kit installed, like I said, it is really simple. But if you need anything else installed, like any of your other flat tow components, we do have an installer locator you can check out. It's going to be an installer local to you to get anything you need installed. But if you want to get this installed, follow along, and I'll walk you through the process.
I have our 12-volt outlet kit and we're by our brake pedal. And I do need to run this through our firewall, but the fuse on here is a little bit too big. So I'm just going to get this cut and we'll splice this in later. So we'll cut our ground and our power wires off. And now we can get this through that grommet.
I've already drilled a hole through it and I have our breakaway switch wire from our Patriot. I'm going to get this taped on here. And this is so long I'm going to be able to use this as a fish wire so I can tape this on, get this pulled through. If you did drill your hole a little bit small and you're struggling to get this through, you can use some soapy water. I'm going to use some silicone spray, and this will help get through that a lot easier. And we will have to extend these. So I got it ran through our grommet and the wire that has writing on it, that's going to be our power wire. And the other is going to be our ground so I'm going to put a white wire on that one. I'm using heat shrink butt connectors. These are nice to get because when you add heat to them, they'll shrink around your wire, creating a watertight seal. You can take our inline fuse that we cut off. We'll get an eyelet crimped on one side. I did cut off the connector that was on here. And I will use a heat shrink butt connector and get this connected to our black wire. And now I can put this on the positive post of our battery. I'll use a 10-millimeter socket. Get that on there and get this tightened back down. And for our white wire, I just grounded that to the negative post on our battery. For our 12-volt outlet, we have it routed in and I have it zip tied away from our pedals over here. It does come with a bracket and I personally don't like using it because I don't want to have to drill into some of the plastic on our dash. And I don't want it to sit down here because it's the potential of kicking it and it doesn't look the best. So when I use it, I zip tie it up just so I'm able to plug in our braking system. And when I'm not using it, I like to just tuck it back here out of the way. And now, you don't even see it. And to make sure this is working properly, I have our Blue Ox Patriot, I'm just going to plug this in and make sure we have power. As you can see, we got our red light. I'll just press the power and we're all good. With that installed, I'll plug everything else in and get this set up, but that just about the look at the Roadmaster 12-volt outlet kit on our 2026 Chevy Colorado.
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Ratings & Reviews

James L.
7/14/2022
It performs perfectly. I am extremely satisfied with the product.

Jimd
7/28/2018
Still performing great. Easy installation. I recommend this kit.
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Jim H.
1/2/2021
Awesome. Great power source for cell phone charging or an inverter for powering a laptop