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Wire your vehicle and get the signal lights required for flat towing without having to splice into your wiring with this custom, plug-in harness. Integrated diodes prevent feedback from RV for safe operation. Wires as combined lighting system.
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Wiring your car for flat towing has never been easier. No more testing wires or splicing into your electrical system. No need to painstakingly position multiple diodes beneath your vehicle. No worries about voiding your warranty. With this custom-fit towed vehicle wiring kit from Hopkins, all you have to do is plug the harness into your vehicle's existing wiring, which is located behind your car's tail light assemblies. No cutting, tapping, or splicing is required.
After plugging in the wiring harness, use the included bracket to mount the 4-way flat connector at the front of your towed car. An extension loop (sold separately) is required to connect your towed car to your RV.
Your vehicle ordinarily operates on a 3-wire system, wherein the brake signal and the turn signals travel along different wires to illuminate different lights. (Typically, this means that your vehicle will have amber turn signals.) This is referred to as a "separate lighting system." When you hook up for flat towing using this harness, however, your towed car's lighting system will operate in a combined fashion. This means that the brake and turn signals sent by your RV to your towed car will be carried on a single wire. As a result, your car's brake lights will do the flashing for the turn signals. Your vehicle will still function as designed - with separate lighting - when not hooked up to your RV.
Because this harness wires your vehicle as a combined system, a brake light relay (RM-88400 - sold separately) may be required if you use a supplemental braking system with your towing setup. A supplemental braking system depresses the brake pedal in your towed car every time you apply the brakes in your RV. So, if your towed car's brake lights illuminate when the brake pedal is pressed and the engine is off - as is the case when towing - then you need to install a relay to ensure that the lights on your towed car always act in accordance with the signals sent by your RV via the wiring harness. Without a relay, the brake signal from your towed car will override the turn signal sent by your RV when you slow down to make turns, creating a potential hazard.
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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (13 Customer Reviews)
Wire your vehicle and get the signal lights required for flat towing without having to splice into your wiring with this custom, plug-in harness. Integrated diodes prevent feedback from RV for safe operation. Wires as combined lighting system.This system directly plugged into my ford edge as depicted. The system worked for several years however all of a sudden just the real right dual tail lights for braking would not work. It was this system when taken out of the circuit. Thus this is a replacement purchase for the same product, one that failed and required disassembly, tracing ordering new replacement, the cost and then installing. So worked initially and again BUT like many foreign make items may have the minimun capacity designed and built in. Good Luck.
I installed the HOPKINS light kit HM56001 on the 2012 Edge last night.
I give it five stars. The videos on etrailer were great and the kit really did plug in and was ready to go in about 2 hrs.
Beat the heck out of cutting and splicing in diodes.
Photos and videos always help me to see and decide exactly what I need. etrailer seems to always have what I need, prices are always competitively good, packaging and shipping is the best.
Product concept is excellent. Installation is much easier than cutting in individual diodes for each circuit. However Hopkins needs to tighten up quality control on the electronic components as this is the third time I have replaced the component module due to failure.
Easy to install worked okay. Just wish it operated all the stop/turn lights & not just half of them.
Viudeo to install is very helpful, quality product Etrailer is the best
Great kit, wiring was easy and product has been working great.
works as intended very pleased easy ins tall
Excelente
Easy install. Only took a little over an hour.
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Robert
2/22/2020
zero issues, still works perfect and no feedback into the vehicles wiring