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Use your towed car's signal lights without tapping into its wiring. This self-contained wiring kit bypasses your Jeep Wrangler Unlimited's electrical system, eliminating any concerns over violating the manufacturer's warranty.
Features:
Note: Towed car must have enough room inside the tail light lens housing for an extra bulb and socket.
Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Today on our 2012 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited, we will be installing the Roadmaster Tail Light Wiring Kit with bulbs, part number RM-155. To begin with, we'll need to route our wires from the front of the vehicle towards the back. To accomplish this, we'll be using a pull wire, in this case a piece of old airline tubing. When we get past the engine compartment, we can route the wire through the frame all the way to the back. Here at the front of the vehicle we will also protect our wire with the loom material provided with the install kit. We can secure it in place with electrical tape.
We will use zip ties and a few loom clamps to secure our wiring along the way. The loom clamps are available on our website as part number A0500. Now, at the rear of our vehicle, we need to remove our tail lights. There are four screws on each. The tail lights will be be disconnected and set aside for now. Next, we'll fish our wires up through the driver's side tail light opening.
Now we can turn our attention to the tail lights themselves. First, remove the tail light plug from the tail light housing, then we can remove the lights by turning them slightly and pulling them out. With the lights out of the way, we can now drill a hole for our new bulb. Here on the side of the housing we will mark out a location to drill with a paint marker. We'll first drill a pilot hole and then use a hole saw to get the appropriate sized hole. Using a flat bladed screwdriver, we can then slightly bend out the teeth on our new bulb socket.
We can now install our bulb into the new socket and press it firmly into the hole we just created. The teeth on the socket should hold it in place. We can now place the two original lights and the plug back into place. We will repeat this same process with the other tail light. Back at the rear of the vehicle, we can now take our wires and split them down the middle, green and yellow on one side, white and brown on the other.
Next, we will cut both the white and brown wires here at the tail light opening. Each end will get stripped back and we will rejoin them using one end of a butt connector. The jumpers we added to both will be routed over to the passenger side along with the green wire, our right turn signal. The yellow wire, our left turn signal, will stay here and get a butt connector. We are now ready to connect to our new bulb as follows, black to white for ground, brown to brown for running lights, and yellow to red for our turn signal. With these connections made we can use some electrical tape to further secure them. Now we can re-install our tail lights. We will route our remaining wires over to the passenger side using some loom clamps to hold them in place. With our wires pulled up into the tail light opening, we can trim them to length. Here we will be attaching black to white, brown to brown, and green to red for our turn signal. With both our tail lights re-installed, let's go ahead and test it out. That will complete our install of the Roadmaster Tail Light Wiring Kit with bulbs, part number RM-155, on our 2012 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited. .
Average Customer Rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (248 Customer Reviews)
Use your towed car's signal lights without tapping into its wiring. This self-contained wiring kit bypasses your vehicle's electrical system, eliminating any concerns over violating the manufacturer's warranty.Went pretty easy. Holes for bulbs do fit in the rear lights. I had to use a 6way plug that had a 4way line on it also.
Always completely satisfied with Etrailer service and products! Jamie B is very knowledgable and courteous!
This was a good option for our 2020 Chevy Equinox because it does not tie into the tow vehicle electrical system and runs directly from the Motorhome electrical system.
This product was easy to install but it took some time routing the wiring harness from the front bumper to the rear. Pick up some extra zip ties, you will need several. The lighting system is independent allowing for the use of LED bulbs. Great product.
Put this into a 2002 Jeep Liberty. Good directions. Drilled out the lower part of tail light housing and install bulb sockets into it. You may have to deburr the tail light housing a bit and manipulate the tangs on the bulb socket but is fine. I put in 1157 LED bulbs :) Good stuff!
easy install one year later still working perfectly
it worked well
very well made and packaged
Found this item was wired with the brake lights for the brown wires and turn/running lights for colored wires and this fact kept me from getting this done very rapidly. Once identified, went together really nicely and actually grounded to frame for higher light output. I upgraded 3 wire into 2 wire converter with "Roadmaster Brite-lite 3 to 2 Wiring Converter" and they are as bright as the lights already in the housing. Except for that wiring issue, it would have been excellent. As to performance after install, great. Customer service was nice from Roadmaster as well. Did receive a call back message from etrailer a couple days later.
I purchased a Blue Ox base plate, Air Force One braking system, and a light kit for my 2013 Durango. I could have not asked for an easier process with selecting and ordering, also the tutorials and videos were a great help in determining what was the best system for me . Everything arrived as planned and in great condition. This is not my first time using etrailer.com and my prior experience was equally good.
Ken G.
10/23/2017
After using the items I reviewed, about 6,000 miles, I am more than satisfied. The towing setup is easy to hook up and unhook and the braking system is second to none. All of the installation was completed by myself and a friend, both of us have a technical background him more than me and we found the videos of the installation extremely helpful.Thank you for following up and providing excellent products as well as support services.
Great customer service fast delivery and reasonable price. Been purchasing from ETrailer for years
I like this product and would definitely buy it again. I like not having to splice into the vehicle wiring and install diodes, etc. It is a clean installation with good instructions. All I have to do to hook up the lights is raise the hood of the towed car and pull out the pigtail and hook it to the motorhome. It is powered by the motorhome and does not run down the battery in the towed car. Great product.
Gary Y.
8/19/2017
Works great! Would definitely recommend it.
Great idea. After years of towing with magnetic lights now all I have to do is plug it in, and I'm done.
The kit kit comes with more parts and wire than I needed and was simple to install on my 2010 JK.
Frank S.
6/27/2014
Thanks Patrick. It works so well I forgot I had it.
great kit i have installed them before
I have used the brake light wiring kit on 2 other towed vehicles. It is an easy install, does not compromise the original factory wiring and works well.
Robert
11/12/2018
Easy install, working well 1 year later.
This kit really simplifies wiring tail lights on a vehicle that will be towed. No cutting into the vehicle's wiring and adding isolation diodes. Very functional and easy to install.
Kim P.
1/26/2016
The parts are working perfectly. Thank you.
Kit was of good quality components. I would recommend about twice a much protective wire wrap along with extra of the smaller butt connectors. Fortunitely I had what I needed on hand. I also used a larger ring terminal.
Jack M.
5/9/2020
Works great. 2002 Jeep Wrangler tail lights have plenty of room for the extra tail light bulbs.
Good instructions. Everything need is included for 4flat connections. One bulb socket arrived with the ground (black) wire loose in the bag. The solder joint had failed. Resoldered but had to remove the other wires and rubber insert from the bulb socket to avoid melting. Not a shining example for Roadmaster.
Joel
8/16/2015
no issues, working as expected
Nice to not have to splice into vehicle wiring harness. Separate bulb assembly in existing tail light housing works great for towing our "TOAD" behind motor home.
Kevin M.
9/2/2020
Still works great after a year of towing to many destinations.
A very clever idea for an easy, neat, simple installation to safely operate tail lights on a towed vehicle. We installed this kit on our 2017 Chevy Sonic and it works great.
Edp
8/15/2018
Thanks for the follow up. Everything is working just fine, no problems, nothing but good performance.
Great product, not a bad install and works great. I chose to cut off both 4 flat connectors and I installed a 4 round connector with spring cover on the front of my CRV. Looks and work out great.
W. D.
7/19/2017
Still working fine.
I really didn't want to install a separate bulb kit but our Equinox light was not compatible with our motor home. I was also installing a trailer lighting harness for the Equinox at the same time and doing them together made a lot of sense. I found this kit to be easy to manage and that drilling into the rear light housings not nearly as difficult as I had imagined. I would share a picture of the result but fortunately there is nothing to see - everything fit right into the Equinox's rear lamp structure. I compared the original lights with those from the kit driven by the RV and found them to be a great match. I upgraded the kit bulbs to LEDs for greater longevity.
I purchased this wiring kit for use in my 1999 Mazda Miata.
I did not want to cut into the OEM wiring harness, even using the diode method to safeguard the system. I felt that the fully separate wiring harness was more to my way of thinking for getting my car ready to tow.
I did not follow the included instructions that said to run the flat 4 wiring beneath the car, zip tying it along the way free of the exhaust and moving parts. I ran it through the firewall, beneath the dash, under the center console, and under the carpeting back into the trunk area. I then installed the bulb holders as instructed in my OEM Miata taillight fixtures.
I am happy to have all the wiring up and out of the way of potential road hazard damage, as well as the hot and/or moving parts beneath the car.
It works perfectly, and I am glad that I purchased this kit, and also that I decided to install it the way I felt best to do so.
It took much longer my way, but I'll never have to mess with it again.
This time it went without a hitch. last time was another thing. hopefully moving forward its all good.
thankyou
Watched video and installed with no issues. Great product! Will buy again for future vehicles.
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Robertbenita
6/30/2014
Continues to work as it should! Very pleased with end product after installation by myself and continue to be happy every time I hook up since! Nice item! And customer service...Well they checked back with me a year later to see if I needed anything. How is that for the best customer service around! A