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

Video Transcript for Review of Hopkins Custom Fit Vehicle Wiring - Trailer Hitch Wiring - HM11141844

Hello everybody, this is Jeff at etrailer.com. Today we'll take a look at this Hopkins plugin vehicle wiring harness with the four-Way flat trailer connector. Now this is a custom fit part. It is designed to fit the 2010 to 2018 Toyota Yaris vehicles, and on a custom fit part like this, I do like to recommend for you to go to our website, use the fit guide, put in your year and model vehicle, and I'll show you, this will work for your application. Now this will provide a four-way flat trailer connector at the back of your vehicle to power of your trailer signal lights. It is compatible with five poles, six pole, and seven pole adapters that we do sell separate on our website, and this kit does connect very quickly and easily.

All you have to do is locate your connection points, which are behind the tail lights. You'll plug in these connectors here, one on each side, one on the driver's side, one on the passenger side, and then you'll have your two extra wires to connect. The white wire with the eyelet on it, that's to connect to a ground, and then the red wire with the butt connector on it, this will run, you'll run this power wire up to your vehicle's battery. Now it does include a circuit protected light tail light converter here to ensure that your vehicle's wire will match that of your trailer. This here will provide protection against electrical shorts and overloads.

It is a powered module, connects directly to your battery, and that's to avoid overloading your vehicle's electrical system. Also, what's nice, you notice it comes with this dust cap for the four-way flat connector. Basically what you'll do with that is just attach it to your four-way and you can leave it attached. You don't have to take it on or take it off, but if you just leave it attached and then when you're not using it, when you're not plugged in, just put that cap over it. It'll protect those terminals from the elements or from any damage.

Maximum amperage on this kit is for the stop and turn lights is three amps per circuit for the tail lights is six amps per circuit. And now just quickly, I'm gonna go through all these parts, how they pretty much connect. But what you'll do is, as we mentioned, you'll go behind the taillights in your vehicle and you'll find the connectors that'll match these connectors. You'll take this one that has the yellow wire in it, that's for the driver's side, plug that in on the driver's side, go to the passenger side, and you'll take this connector with the green wire, has a length of wire, run this over to the passenger side, plug it in, and then as we mentioned, you have these two extra wires you'll run your four-way length of wire out to the back, so you can plug into your trailer. These two extra wires, you'll take your white wire, connect that to a good clean, clean ground that's nearby.

If there's not one nearby, you can make your own ground by using this grounding screw. And then you'll take this power wire that has a butt connector on it, and you'll run this to the front of the vehicle to connect to the battery. And they give you this length of wire to use, but you don't wanna run it directly to the battery. You wanna run it through this fuse connector. So you'll connect one end of this wire to the butt connector., run this length of wire up to the front. Once you get to the front, connect the wire to one side the butt connector of the fuse holder. The other side you can see has an eyelet on it, which connect to your battery. Pop open, has a 15 amp fuse installed. Make sure the fuse is in there, close it, and your system's all ready to go. They do give you some extra cable ties. Take up any slack in the wiring, and if you notice they give you a little tube or a little packet of terminal grease here. You want to put that terminal grease on all your electrical connections to prevent any corrosion. But that should do it for the review on this Hopkins plugin vehicle wiring harness for the four way flat trailer connector.