Hopkins Plug-In Simple Vehicle Wiring Harness with 4-Pole Flat Trailer Connector

Video Transcript for Hopkins Plug-In Simple Vehicle Wiring Harness Installation - 2014 Honda CR-V

Shane: Okay guys, Shane here with etrailer.com. Today I have a 2014 Honda CRV, and I want to walk through how to install the Hopkins Simple Plug-In Wiring Harness. So this wiring harness is going to plug directly into factory plug behind the driver's side rear panel. It's going to have a converter box. The converter box is going to protect the factory wiring from any backfeed if there's a wiring issue with the trailer or anything else you may have this hooked up to. It's going to give you all of your proper lighting functions, brake lights, turn signals, and running lights.

It's also going to come with a nice dust cap. So when you're not using it, put the dust cap on. It's going to help protect your connections from dirt and debris. It's going to give you three amps per circuit for your stop and turn signals. Six amps per circuit for your tail lights.This is designed to live inside of the vehicle.

So when you're not using it, simply roll it up, put it right down with your spare tire until you're ready to use it next time. When you're ready to use it, simply pull it out, lay it over top the back here. You want to make sure it's going over the rubber piece. Stay away from where your hatch connects there and then close down your hatch, hookup, whatever you're hooking up to. This is going to be fuse protected.

You're going to have two fuses. You're going to have one fuse that is behind the panel with the converter box, and you're going to have one fuse that goes into the fuse panel up underneath the dash. Now that we've gone over some of the features, let's walk you through how to get it installed.Start of our installation. We're going to move our floor coverings and then we're going to remove this seal panel here. We're going to have a fastener here and a fastener here we need to remove.

What we're going to do is we're going to push the very center and that allows you to pop that fastener out. And we're going to take this, pop it up, and just work your way across. And we'll set that aside.Now we're going to start removing the hardware to loosen up the panels on the driver's side. We're going to start with this fastener here. Plastic trim panel tool. We need to get under it. We'll pop that out. We're going to take a 10 millimeter socket. Our tie down right here. Remove the bolt. This tie down, do the same thing as we did on this panel. We're going to push the center in, pull it out. Right here behind the handle there's a little tab right there at the top. Push that tab down. See that little tab there. It's pretty small. You may need a small screwdriver. We're going to have two Phillips set of screws in there we need to remove.We're going to take our weatherstripping, kind of pull it back like this. You need to get in behind the panel. It may be easier if you just pull it off. You pull it off up to about here. If you look in between the panel there, there's a fastener there. Take the trim panel tool, stick it in there, and we're going to pop that loose. We're going to work our way all the way up. We're going to have one here behind this lower panel. We'll just get in behind it. And then we can start working this panel off.What we're looking for is this blue plug. What we're going to do is we're going to disconnect that blue plug and push down here, slide it out, just like that. We're going to take our wiring harness. We're going to pull out the fuse in the fuse holder if it's in there and we're just going to match our plugs into those two plugs. Once we get that, you can install your fuse into the holder.We're going to take all of our wiring, we're going to feed it down and underneath our panel. This is going to be our four pole end that we need to pull up. Make sure where you're putting it. You're not going to be putting it to where your wires are going to get pinched on any of the fasteners when we put the panels back in place.Next thing we need to do is we need to secure our box. So what I did to secure my box. Couple zip ties will come in the kit. Zip tied on the back of this panel, because you got to make sure when we put this back in, the box isn't going to interfere with it attaching. Ground wire, used my self tapper and I just put it right there. You want to make sure it's on a metal surface, not on any plastic. Now we can go ahead and put our panels back in place.You're going to have a small micro fuse in your kit. It's going to be 7.5 amps. You're going to get inside the driver's side, underneath the dash. You're going to put it in location number 10. You can see it's marked right there. And that's a 7.5 fuse. If it's not in there, but the one that comes in your kit. Sometimes I have found that that fuse is already in.Now we'll test everything out using part number I26. Left turn. Right turn. Brake lights. Running lights. Once we've tested everything out, we can take our wire, kind of roll it up, put it down with our spare tire out of the way, and we're ready to go.That's going to do it for a look at and installation on the Hopkins Simple Vehicle Wiring Harness on our 2014 Honda CRV.