Blue Ox Fuse ByPass Switch for Towed Vehicles - 2 ATM Mini-Fuse

Video Transcript for Blue Ox Towed Vehicle Fuse ByPass Switch Review

Hey everybody, Ryan here at Etrailer. Today, we're gonna be checking out the blue ox dual fuse bypass switch for towed vehicles. I do wanna mention the fuse bypass switch is designed to work with fuses that have a rating of 20 amps or under. So, you know that holds true for each fuse holder. So you can have a 20 amp fuse for one holder, 20 amp fuse in the other holder. As long as it doesn't exceed 20 amps, we're in pretty good shape.

To be honest, I've yet to run into a fuse that needs to be polled of this type rated higher than 20 amps. It's not to say that they're not out there, but just from my experience, I've yet to find one. So chances are pretty good you'll be covered. And the fuse holder itself is designed to work with these types of fuses right here. So the 80 amp mini fuse, I believe it is what they're called.

So I'm sure a lot of people are relatively familiar with these. They've been around for awhile. And a lot of the late model cars use this type of design. So when it comes to flat towing your vehicle down the road, there's already a lot of things to kind of worry about. You know, you have your five main components to deal with, your base plate, your tow bar, your safety cables, your wiring, and your braking system.

And honestly, that's enough to really have to worry about there. And any additional things need to do, chances are pretty good there's a part available to help simplify that or make it more streamlined. And one of the things are a good example of one of those things, is the fuse bypass switch. So with a lot of vehicles, the manufacturer suggests that you remove a couple of fuses whenever you're flat towing. That way certain components inside of your vehicle don't have power and you're not gonna have to worry about any issues as far as maybe coming out of flat tow mode or your battery getting drained and things like that.

So one of the things you can do is kind of go old fashioned. You know, actually find those fuses that they want you to pull out and manually pull them out. And then whenever you're done flat towing, remember to put those fuses back into place. And honestly, at first, if I was new to flat towing I would think, "Oh, I can do that, I'll get away with that." But honestly that would probably get old pretty quick. You know, the fuses nowadays are tiny, easily misplaced when you, you know, trying to find a new fuse to pop in there and everything else. So, I could see that getting old and I'd want something to streamline that. And with the switch, you're not gonna have to worry about that. All you're simply gonna have to do is flip that switch. It'll cut power to those fuses, and then whenever you're ready to unhook and drive your car around, you put it back that on position and you're good to go. So this is what your switch is gonna look like. And like I said, whenever you're ready to cut that power, you can just turn it off. and turn it back on whenever you're ready to drive around. Usually the switch is got to be mounted in a place somewhere like this. It's really just got to be dependent on where your fuse lock or box is located in your particular vehicle. You don't get a ton of length of wire, maybe a foot or so. So, you know you're kind of limited on where you can go with this unless you wanna extend all those wires and everything else. But I mean, the option is really yours. You know, if that's something you wanna do. I kind of usually like it. And then I really like this anyway. That way, you know, it's out of sight and you're not gonna, you know, be bumping into it with your knee or anything like that. Now, since this is a multi fuse, so it has two fuse slots. You'd use this if your vehicle requires you to pull two of those fuses, like our Buick does here today. That way you can control both those fuses with one switch and you don't have to Mount up, you know, choose separate switches and have to deal with two of them. But that said, if your vehicle only requires you to pull one fuse, it also make fuse bypass switches, essentially the same as this just designed for those vehicles that require you to pull one fuse. So that's your situation, that's always an option for you as well. So depending on your vehicle, you know what, this has got a disconnect. It really just varies to what your manufacturer suggests what fuse you pull. In our case in our Buick here, notice this a quick few things like our dome lights, for example. So right now we have the switch into on position, just like we would have it if you're just cruising around town, but if you're ready to flat tow, I'll flip it to the off position. You see it cuts power to those lights. And, you know, in our case, it's controlling the body control module. So other aspects aren't gonna have power as well. So for example, if I tried to unlock our doors. You see we're not gonna have any power there at all. And even the same thing with our horn, I push that down, we have no power but that's exactly what we want whenever we're flat towing. I'm gonna make things really easy. Like I said, once we're done, we turn that switch back into on and position and we regain all of those features. So compared to some of the other fuse bypass switches available, they're all pretty much about the same. I really don't favor one over the other. I will say the Roadmaster switch does come with some stickers that are pretty nice. They say tow and the other one says drive. And so you can kind of stick those on above and below your switch, just to kind of have a reference on, "Hey, this is on or in tow mode or in drive mode." Not really a huge deal breaker there. I mean, it's pretty obvious to know if your components aren't working, it's in tow mode and you know if they are it's in drive, but you know, a nice thing to just kind of look at and process in your head, "Okay, this is a position at 10 and this is what's gotta happen." But not really huge deal, just something I thought I was worth mentioning. So when it comes down to it, is this something that you absolutely have to have No, it's not, but it does make things a lot easier. You know, if your car requires you to pull out a couple of fuses, this just really simplifies it and kind of eliminates that little bit of room for error. You know, if you forget to pull or forget to put them back in or pull the wrong fuses, things like that, so you really can't mess up flipping a switch. You know, as long as you remember it's there, you'll be in good shape. And that's what it seems like. You know, a lot of people that flat tow, we do a lot of them here at Etrailer. And one of the things that is really important to a lot of people is having a setup that's easy to manage and not a lot of steps and things like that. And I definitely understand that you don't wanna be spending a bunch of time trying to kind of jump through hoops to get your car towed behind your motor home. So this is one of them things where, you know, it's just one last thing you're not gonna have to worry about. You flip the switch and you're good to go. And that'll finish up our look at of the blue ox dual fuse bypass switch for towed vehicles..