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Wire your vehicle and get the signal lights required for flat towing without having to splice into your wiring with this custom, plug-in harness. Integrated diodes prevent feedback from RV for safe operation. Wires as combined lighting system.
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Wiring your car for flat towing has never been easier. No more testing wires or splicing into your electrical system. No need to painstakingly position multiple diodes beneath your vehicle. No worries about voiding your warranty. With this custom-fit towed vehicle wiring kit from Hopkins, all you have to do is plug the harness into your vehicle's existing wiring, which is located behind your car's tail light assemblies. No cutting, tapping, or splicing is required.
After plugging in the wiring harness, use the included bracket to mount the 4-way flat connector at the front of your towed car. An extension loop (sold separately) is required to connect your towed car to your RV.
Some automobiles operate on a 3-wire system, wherein the brake signal and the turn signals travel along different wires to illuminate different lights. (Typically, these vehicles have amber turn signals.) This is referred to as a "separate lighting system." When you hook up for flat towing using this harness, your towed car's lighting system will operate in a combined fashion regardless of whether it typically has combined or separate lighting. This means that the brake and turn signals sent by your RV to your towed car will be carried on a single wire. As a result, your car's brake lights will do the flashing for the turn signals. Your vehicle will still function as designed when not hooked up to your RV.
Because this harness wires your vehicle as a combined system, a brake light relay (RM-88400 - sold separately) may be required if you use a supplemental braking system with your towing setup. A supplemental braking system depresses the brake pedal in your towed car every time you apply the brakes in your RV. So, if your towed car's brake lights illuminate when the brake pedal is pressed and the engine is off - as is the case when towing - then you need to install a relay to ensure that the lights on your towed car always act in accordance with the signals sent by your RV via the wiring harness. Without a relay, the brake signal from your towed car will override the turn signal sent by your RV when you slow down to make turns, creating a potential hazard.
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (13 Customer Reviews)
Wire your vehicle and get the signal lights required for flat towing without having to splice into your wiring with this custom, plug-in harness. Integrated diodes prevent feedback from RV for safe operation. Wires as combined lighting system.
I purchased a wiring kit for my 2011 Lincoln MKX and installed it in about an hour.
It worked great and I recommend using e- trailer for items like this. It is the second time I ordered a wiring kit from them with the same results.
This is a very well designed wiring harness. Frankly I had more trepidation doing the wiring for our new toad than installing the tow plate hardware. Other kits required splicing into existing wiring. This one was so simple to plug in between the existing plugs and the tail lights. Etrailer's how-to install videos make this a very simple install.
This is one of the easiest installations of a wiring harness I have ever done. I have recommended it to all my friends. Great product.
Need to add instructions to add a body ground to battery or body somewhere. Mine did not work! After hours of trouble shooting found it barely lit my test light! A typical ground problem, added another ground to battery every thing works fine now. Please pass this on.will save someone a lot of head aches!
Wiring harness was easy to install. Harness was well made
great tracking and processing of our order. there was no guessing as to where it was or when it was arriving. great support with the videos for installation, loved that these were available!
did not fit across the back of our MKX so had to add some wire and splice it in but it did work when it was done
Easy installation and fast delivery.
It was everything they said it was it was all plug-in-play and very easy to install only took me an hour I would definitely buy from them again and the price was perfect.
Works great. Install was pretty easy.
Fast delivery, correct parts,
THANK S!
Very good
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