T-One Vehicle Wiring Harness with 4-Pole Flat Trailer Connector

Video Transcript for Tekonsha T-One Vehicle Wiring Harness Installation - 2019 Buick Encore

Clayton: Hey guys! How's it going Clayton here at etrailer.com. And today, we'll be taking a look at and I'll show you how to install, Tekonsha's T-One Connector Harness on our 2019 Buick Encore. So what our four pole trailer wiring does is allows us to tow a small trailer safely. That'll give us our turn signals, our running lights and our brake lights. And one thing I really like about this kit is our dust cover. It's part of our plug.

So we don't have to worry about losing it or falling off. And it can be used as a temporary foot wire holder. You can put it around your safety chain loop and clip it in there. We don't have to worry about our wiring.A really nice feature about this kit is it's all plug and play. All you have to do is plug our wires into our taillight wires, run our wires to our passenger side.

Then run a power wire up to our engine compartment. Overall, it's a pretty easy installation. Speaking of installation, I'll walk you through how to get it installed now.So to start our installation, we can open our trunk. We're going to have a cover right here. We can just look it up on our cargo liner and set it aside.

Now we're going to go ahead and remove our tie-downs. You'll use a 10 millimeter socket and take that out. Now we can go ahead and remove our plastic liner. All you have to do is pull up. This'll come right out.

Now we have to take out this T45 screw. This holds down our styrofoam liner. With that loosened up, we'll be able to shift this out of the way. Now we can go ahead and remove our access panel right here. We're going to use a nylon pry tool. There's going to be a little slot right here, where we can stick our tool. There's enough room to get our hand behind there. Then remove our panel.Now we can go ahead and remove our taillight plug located right there. You can reach in with your hands and pull out our plug. All you have to do is push down on this little tab. Now we need to feed our wiring up through here to our plug. I'm going to take an airline tube. You can obviously use a coat hanger or a rope with a string. Anything that you can get to drop down here. So we'll stick our airline tube down and grab our airline tube. Then I'm going to take some electrical tape, make sure to get enough tape on there, to where if your wiring does catch anything on the way up, that it won't pull off. With that taped on, we can pull it up and remove our airline tube.Now with our wiring fed in, we can grab our plug. Add our new plug from our wiring kit. You'll make sure you want to hear that click in. Then we'll take this end and put it right back on our taillight. And before we took all of our wiring up underneath our vehicle, I'm going to go ahead and re-add our panel since we are done on the side. This can be tricky because you have this cargo compartment. But you can take your time. Should be pretty easy. And before we can add our wiring, we have to take off our access panels.Then there'll be another little plastic panel here. We'll take that same pry tool and pry this out. And you don't want to pull too hard, so we don't break our tabs. And now we have our airline tube ran from our access panel down through our bumper beam and out our hole here. I'm going to go ahead and take our plugs to our airline tube and get that pulled back through. Again, you want to be careful that way we're not pulling any wiring or snagging anything. So after we got our wiring run through our bumper beam, there wasn't quite enough room to come up the outside. So we're going to go up underneath this access panel, just like we did on our driver's side.So we can go ahead and remove our plug and take our new wiring. Make sure our channels are facing up. Snap that in, take this side, plug it in there. Now what I'm going to do, since we have a little bit of extra wiring. Is I'm going to fold this over and zip tie it together. So we do have a little bit of exposed wire here. I'm going to go ahead and zip tie that to our factory wiring. And I'll repeat that on our driver's side as well. So now I'll go over our wires ran to our taillights. We can go ahead and mount our box. I'm going to use our two-sided tape. It's important when you're mounting this, that you're not going to amount around anything hot or moving. And in this case, I'm going to mount it right here behind our styrofoam tray.So we can go ahead and stick our box in. I'm going to try to move it as far back as I can. Right there it's pretty hidden. Now still give us room to run our power wire and our ground. Now I'm going to go ahead and take out our spare tire. You don't have to, but it's just going to give us a little bit more room one. When we're mounting our ground wire. Now we can take ourselves tapper and Mount our ground. You want to make sure to mount somewhere that, if you have to take your spare tire out, you won't rip this off accidentally.I'm going to go ahead and go right here. I've already cleaned it off with some rubbing alcohol. So we know we have a clean surface. So we can take our self-tapper and run our grounds. So with our ground wire ran, I'm going to go ahead and leave our spare tire out just for a little bit more room. Now we're going to go ahead and connect our black wire. So we'll want to strip it back, twist together. And I did cut it a little bit long. So we'll trim the ends. Take our butt connectors provided crump it down. I always like to get both sides, just to make sure. Always give a good little pull. Just to make sure our won't come off later. So then we'll take our black wire from our kit, twist that. Add our butt connector and crump it down. And again, I'm going to give a little tug. We know we're good. So now I can wrap this up electrical tape.So there are a couple of ways that we can go about manning our four-pole wiring. A lot of people leave our wire like this. Just put it in their spare tire compartment. And then take it out when they need it and just drape it over our gasket. Our customer wants a four-pole mounted down on the hitch. So there's a grommet down here. And I'm going to take our four-pole wiring and our power wiring. And then I'll cut a slit in the side and then we can slide our wiring through that grommet. So at this point, If you want to put all your components back in your trunk. Feel free to do that. So you'll have to add your spare tire, add the cover and our paneling on our passenger side.Now we're going to run our power wire up to our engine compartment. I'm going to try to follow the frame rail as much as possible. You want to make sure to stay away from anything that's hot or moving. I'll go ahead and run my wire. And I'll show you how I did it. I ran it right under here under our bumper beam, up behind this bracket and over our exhaust hanger bracket. Then there was a hard line right here. And I zip tied that to the hard line all the way up through here. And then right there, I came down to our brake line bracket and up our brake line a little bit, under this little shield here. And then on the other side of the shield. I came through our frame rail here, all the way up to here. And then I dropped down our airline tube. I'll tie these together and pull it up along this firewall. Now with our airline tube connected to our wiring, I can go ahead and pull this up.And again, you want to make sure this isn't going to hit anything hot or moving. Now I'm going to take a zip tie and zip tie to this factory wiring here. So we want to make sure that our fuse is not in our fuse holder. And then we're going to cut right here in the middle. Now that'll give us a good idea of where we need to cut our wire for power. So if we put it there, that should come right over to our battery pole very nicely. So I'm going to cut our wire right about here. Now we can take our wire and strip it back. Add our butt connector, before we grab our fuse holder. Strip back part of this, add it to our butt connector. Give a little tug and make sure we're good. Now I'm going to throw some electrical tape over that just to ensure any connections.Now we can check and make sure we have a good length to connect to our battery. I'm going to come right here to this bolt and that looks pretty good. So we can go ahead and strip this back and add our ring terminal. And we can go ahead and crump that down. So we're going to use a 12 millimeter socket. We'll take off that bolt. And then we can add our ring terminal. Now with our fuse connected, we can close our cover and make sure there's room. We don't have to do any trimming, which is nice.So we know we're ready to add the fuse. And we'll take our 15 amp fuse provided in our kit. Add it to the fuse holder, close our cover. And I'm going to tuck ours down here to the side. And now with our tester hooked up, we can go ahead and test everything out. We'll start with our brake lights, our running lights, our right turn and our left turn. So now that we've tested everything. We know we're ready to hit the road. That's going to do it for our look at and installation of the Tekonsha T Connector Harness on our 2019 Buick Encore..