Chevrolet Trailer Wiring Installation And Review Videos
Hello neighbors, it's Brad here at etrailer and today we're taking a look at installing the Pollak in-bed seven-pole wiring on a 2020 Chevy Silverado 3500. Now this is gonna be a really great addition if you have a fifth wheel or gooseneck. And when you plug in your trailer, instead of having to drape it over your tailgate, you'll have this wiring right in your bed, making it super easy, and it keeps all your cords inside of the bed as you're going down the road. Now this obviously you have to have a factory seven way to be able to tie into that. It's really just a jumper harness, but it makes it super convenient. It's gonna give you all the same functions as you would your normal seven poles. more
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4/22/2024 11:15:45 AM
Hopkins 4-Pole to 7-Pole and 4-Pole Adapter Installation - 2018 Chevrolet Express Van- Video
Hello neighbors, it's Brad here at etrailer, and today we're taking a look at the Hopkins, four to seven and four pole adapter, on a 2018 Chevy Express van. Now, this is gonna allow you to take your four pole adapter, and actually hook up to a seven way trailer. You still maintain your four-pole, so this really opens up the options for anyone that tows two different styles of trailer, or having the ability to hook up to a bunch of different trailers. Now, this is also nice if you eventually wanna add a brake controller, as you can do that. Your four-pole is going to give you your running lights, your turn signals, and your brake lights. Now, you're also gonna get that with your seven pole but you have the availability to eventually add the wiring to run a brake controller, you can also put a reverse lockout if you're towing a boat, or you can have a 12 Volt power supply, and that's gonna be useful on some of your trailers with your jacks or whatever may be powered. more
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12/10/2021 9:49:09 AM
Pollak 7-Pole, RV-Style Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2000 Chevrolet Silverado- Video
Rob: Hey everybody. Rob here at etrailer.com. Today, we're going to be taking a look at the Pollak 7-way trailer connector on our 2000 Chevrolet Silverado. Now here's what our trailer connector's going to look like. It's going to provide us a 7-Way at the back of our truck so we can have all the required lights to get down the road with our trailer. It's going to give us our clearance lights, our turn signals, our brake lights, and even our backup lights. more
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3/31/2020 3:37:12 PM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2012 Chevrolet Malibu- Video
Speaker 1: Today on this 2012 Chevrolet Malibu, we're going to review and install the Upgraded Circuit Protected ModuLite with 4 Pole Harness, part number 119179KIT.Let's go ahead and take a quick look at the ModuLite itself. This is going to be a great addition to your vehicle when you pull a trailer. First off, you notice it's got a protector here and it's labeled right here. That means that if there's any shorts or problems on the trailer, this module protects the vehicle from any shorts or damages. To give you an idea how it all works, our module is actually powered by your battery and from these input wires here, from the car, what happens is that the box will actually copy the signal and then send, using battery power, send it out to your trailer. So that way, again, if there's any problems with the trailer, it's limited to here and that's where it stops.Couple of neat things inside the box that protect the vehicle is it has a resettable breaker on the inside that's totally automatic, so you just let it sit for awhile and reset. more
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11/26/2018 9:57:47 AM
Hopkins Endurance 7-Way RV Trailer Connector Review - 2002 Chevrolet Silverado- Video
Speaker 1: Today on our 2002 Chevrolet Silverado, we're going to review and install the Hopkins Endurance Twist mount, 7-Way RV trailer connector, part number HM40930. This is what the connector looks like once it's installed on the truck. Now this is a great replacement for your original connector like this one right here, which has getting sun damaged, and the plastic can get brittle over time. Or a lot of times I see these guys just smashed. One thing you really don't see, it's hard to tell, but inside these pins here, you'll end up getting with corrosion inside there. At that point, there's nothing that you can do but replace it. more
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7/2/2018 12:57:23 PM
Best 2008 Chevrolet Malibu Trailer Wiring Options- Video
Speaker 1: Today we're going to be taking a look at the best vehicle wiring options for your 2008 Chevy Malibu. Now these are going to be our three wiring options for your Malibu. Over here on your left side you're going to have the Tekonsha, part number 118450. Here in the center we're going to have the CURT, part number 56027. Over here on your right you're going to have the Hopkins, part number 46255.All of these are going to provide the proper lighting for your trailer with the four-pole connection. If you have to LTZ model, these two will not work. more
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1/5/2018 10:37:58 AM
Curt 7-Way RV-Style Trailer Connector Installation - 2018 Chevrolet Silverado 3500- Video
Speaker 1: Today on our 2018 Chevrolet Silverado 3500 we're gonna be taking a look at and showing you how to install the Curt Seven Way RV-Style Trailer Connector for the vehicle end, and that's gonna be part number C58155.Here's what our seven way wiring connector is gonna look like once we have it installed. We chose to mount it in our truck bed for fifth wheel and Gooseneck wiring, although you can mount it at the back of your car for a replacement or an addition to have your trailer connected. It's gonna have a nice spring loaded door so we're not gonna have to worry about closing it, it'll close on its own as well as a nice seal to keep all the moisture and debris from getting inside of our connector.It's a seven way connector so it is gonna give us all of our lighting functions, brakes, taillights, turn signals, reverse lights, as well as a 12 volt power source and our trailer brakes if we have a controller installed. Nice features it does have that latch like most seven way connectors do so once you plug in your connector and this door closes on top it'll keep it from coming out.Our housing's gonna be made of a durable plastic so it's gonna withstand the elements and it's gonna look good whether it's inside your truck bed like we have here or at the back of your bumper. Overall I just really like the look of the connector. It has a lot of the same features as most of the ones on the market like the door and the gasket but it just has more of a finished look to me, a little bit more rounder edges, and not so much of that blocky square look.I do want to mention that the hardware is not included and any kind of brackets to get it mounted up are not included either, but you can pick up both of those on our website and we have a wide variety of brackets to get it mounted to the back of your bumper or right here in the bed of your truck.Now that we've gone over some of the features and seen what it looks like let's show you how to get it installed. more
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11/10/2017 11:20:46 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2017 Chevrolet Equinox C57674- Video
Today on our 2017 Chevrolet Equinox, we'll be installing the Curt Adapter Four Pole to Seven Pole, and Four Pole with Test Lamps. Part number C57674. You can see our vehicle is already equipped with a four pole flat adapter for our wiring. Our customer today needs a seven pole in order to have the lighting functions he needs on his trailer. You simply will plug this in right here, to the existing four pole wiring. You have your wires here for your brake controller, your ground wench we'll need to add, yellow wire is for your reverse, and your black is for constant power. If you need to hook these up, you can. more
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11/4/2016 11:49:22 AM
Hopkins Trailer Wiring Connector Installation - 2013 Chevrolet Silverado- Video
Today on our 2013 Chevrolet Silverado, we're going to be showing you how to install the Hopkins Endurance Multi-Tow Twist-Mount 7-Way RV and 4-way Flat Trailer Connector. This is for the vehicle end. Part number is HM40920. A few of the great things about the Endurance line from Hopkins, especially with this plug: our door, you can see we've got dual tabs, but this is going to open past the 180 degrees. This is going to allow us plenty of access to get in there and get our plug plugged in. We can see that line right around there. more
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5/13/2016 3:06:29 PM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2016 Chevrolet Trax 56146KIT- Video
Today in our 2016 Chevrolet Trax, we're going to take a look at and show you how to install the Curt Upgraded Circuit Protected Tail Light Hard Wire Kit, with converter. This offers the 4 pole in and includes a tester. Part number is 56146KIT. All right, now here's what our wiring kit's going to look like when we pull it out of the package. You'll see here that we're going to have the heart of our system. This is our powered converter. This is going to take the signals that we get from our stop light, our running lights, our turn signals, for both the driver's side and for the passenger side, and it's going to convert it into a usable signal that we'll be able to go through our 4 pole with. Now, our 4 pole wire here, this is going to be 58" long. more
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4/12/2016 2:40:12 PM
Hopkins Trailer Wiring Connector Installation - 2002 Chevrolet Silverado- Video
Today on this 2002 Chevrolet Silverado, we're going to review and install the Hopkins Endurance Multi-Tow Twist-Mount 7-Way RV and 4-Way Trailer Connector, part number HM40920. This is what it looks like when it's installed. Let's go ahead and cover some of the features. First up, we'll go ahead and open it, take a look at inside this 7-pole connector. This has a very common 7-way RV style connector with the flat blades. This will accommodate 7 circuits. more
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2/12/2016 2:41:06 PM
Trailer Wiring Harness Adapter Installation - 2012 Chevrolet Express Van- Video
Today in our 2012 Chevrolet Express Van, we're going to show you how to install the Hopkins Adapter to turn the 4-Pole to both the 7-Pole and the 4-Pole. Part number is 37185. Here's what our adapter is going to look like. Here you can see the 7-Pole side and the additional 4-Pole side here on the outside. We're going to have all the screws we need and the bracket that's going to go around the backside that we can mount to a tab or a surface maybe if there was one sticking off for the hitch. As you can see this one, we don't want to drill into the hitch itself and ruin some of the integrity of it. What we're going to use is part number 18136. more
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9/30/2015 9:11:14 AM
RoadMaster 6 Wire Trailer Connector Installation - 2013 Chevrolet Captiva Sport- Video
Today on our 2013 Chevrolet Captiva Sport we're going to install the Roadmaster six-wire trailer connector vehicle end, part number RM-910030-7, in conjunction with the Hopkins mounting bracket, part number HM48605. Now on this application the vehicle has a four-flat connector already previously run for the towed vehicle. We're going to go ahead and cut the zip tie that's holding it so that we can mount the new Roadmaster six-round pin connector. To secure the connector to the vehicle we're going to use the Hopkins six-round bracket. Now to mount our bracket we're going to attach it here directly to the fascia. I'm just going to use some self-tapping screws and I can run them in and secure the bracket in place. So our bracket's a little more aesthetically pleasing we're going to go ahead and bend it down so it sits a little more flush with the front of the vehicle. more
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3/4/2015 10:17:53 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Adapter Installation - 2009 Chevrolet Impala- Video
Today on our 2009 Chevrolet Impala, we'll be installing the Hopkins Adapter for the 4-Pole to 7-Pole, as well as a 4-pole, part number 37185. Additional parts that we'll be using today is the Draw-Tite no-drill Mount Bracket in a long, part number 18136. We'll also be using some dielectric grease, which is part number 11755. To begin with, we're going to go ahead and connect the bracket that holds the 7- and 4-way connector to the long bracket. We'll do this using the screws supplied. Once we have that done, now were ready to go ahead and mount our bracket onto our hitch. We'll use the big hose clamp that comes with the long bracket, which is part number 18136, to connect our bracket to the cross member on our hitch. Once we have this tightened down, next we'll go ahead and use the hardware supply to connect our 7-pole, as well as our 4-pole, connector to the bracket. With this connected, now we're ready to go ahead and plug in our 4-flat to our vehicle's existing 4-flat wiring. more
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10/7/2014 4:35:27 PM
RoadMaster 6 Wire Trailer Connector Installation - 2014 Chevrolet Silverado 1500- Video
Today on our 2014 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Double Cab, we're going to install part number RM-910030-7. This is the Road Master 6 Wire Trailer Connector for vehicle end. This 6 pole connector we're using is going to go on to the front of a truck, because the truck is being pulled behind an RV. This is our 4 pole wire, which had a preexisting connector, we just went ahead and cut it off because we don't need it any more. We're going to take our new 6 pole connector and install it in this location right here. What we're trying to do is match the angle of our connector with the angle of the bumper here, so we'll flip it over and upside down and try to line up the lines as best we can. Then we'll use a drill bit to mark 4 holes. more
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9/12/2014 4:38:21 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2013 Chevrolet Silverado HM48420- Video
Today in our 2013 Chevy Silverado, well be installing the Hopkins Endurance 6-Pole Trailer Connector Socket part number HM48420. This will be in conjunction with the Pollak 5th Wheel and Goose Neck Trailer Connector Wiring Harness part number PK11932. To begin our install, well take our Hopkins 6-Pole and make sure we have a hole saw large enough so that the 6-Pole can be mounted in our bedside. Were going to mount it about right here, so well go ahead and take our hole saw and drill a hole in the bed liner and side. Now we can take our wiring harness and feed it from underneath up and out the free drilled hole. Once we feed it through, well go ahead and pull it out so we can work with the end. Typically we would install a seven blade end that would connect to this wiring harness, but because we need a 6-pole trailer connector to connect to our trailer end, were going to go ahead and remove each one of these connectors. more
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8/5/2014 11:04:11 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Adapter Installation - 2012 Chevrolet Equinox- Video
Today on this 2012 Chevrolet Equinox, we're going to install part number 37185. This is a Hopkins adapter 4 pole to 7 pole and 4 pole. First thing we need to do is go ahead and get our vehicle ready. To do that, we need to loosen up the 4 pole that's pre-existing on our car. Our Hopkins product will plug into this and adapt up to the 7 and provide another 4 pole. Let's just cut this out of our way. more
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7/18/2014 9:50:18 AM
Trailer Brake Controller Installation - 2006 Chevrolet Express Van- Video
Today is 2006 Chevrolet express van. We're going to install part number 90885 from inaudible 00:00:05. Now to help us install our brake controller we'll be using part number 37185 from Hopkins. This is our 4 pole to 7 pole adapter. We'll go ahead and start off installing the bracket for our 7 pole connector. It looks like there's a bracket already installed on her vehicle, so we're going to just reuse one of the holes. more
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6/11/2014 5:00:08 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Adapter Installation - 2005 Chevrolet Express Van- Video
Today on our 2005 Chevrolet Express Van, well be installing the Hopkins Adaptor 4 Pole to 7 Pole and 4 Pole, part number 37185. As you can see here, this particular vehicle already had a factory wiring harness connected at one time. But somebodys already gone and cut the ends off so we just have exposed wires. Were going to go ahead and use our test light to see whats working. Well have someone run through the running lights, figure out which wire does which. With using our test light, we found that the brown wire is the running light circuit. more
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12/4/2013 10:41:20 AM
Roadmaster Tow Bar Wiring Kit Installation - 2010 Chevrolet Malibu- Video
Today on our 2010 Chevy Malibu we'll be installing the Roadmaster Universal Diode Wiring Kit for tow vehicles, part number RM-154. To begin our install, we'll first need to locate the manufacturer's wiring that runs to both taillight assemblies. To do this we'll remove the spare tire cover and then the rear threshold. To remove the rear threshold, we'll simply pull up on the bottom of the threshold releasing the four fasteners underneath. Next, to gain access behind the taillight assemblies on both sides there will be two push pin fasteners and two threaded cargo hook fasteners. Once we remove these fasteners, we can pull back on the trunk carpeting which will expose the wiring behind it and the back of the taillight assemblies. more
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11/11/2013 3:58:45 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Adapter Installation - 1998 Chevrolet Suburban- Video
All right. Today on this 1998 Chevrolet Suburban, we're going to install Part Number 30717. We're going to use one additional part to help install to our vehicle that'll be Part Number 18136 from Tow Ready, it's a universal mounting bracket. First thing, we're going to do is take our mounting bracket and attach it to the hitch of the vehicle. All right. We'll go ahead and take a clamp and install on the hitch. more
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1/10/2013 1:59:41 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Adapter Installation - 1999 Chevrolet Silverado- Video
Today on our 1999 Chevy Silverado well be adding the Hopkins Adapter Four Pole to Seven Pole and Four Pole, part number 37185. This vehicle was previously equipped with a four pole that was direct wired to the manufacturers harness. Its already been removed so we can go ahead and strip back the brown, green and yellow wires that run directly from the manufacturers tow package. Then well add the butt connectors to each end. With that done were ready to go ahead and add the bracket to the seven and four pole. Well use the hardware provided to secure the bracket to the seven and four pole. more
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11/1/2012 3:05:49 PM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2008 Chevrolet Express Van- Video
Today on our 2008 Chevy Express Van, were gonna install the Hopkins 4-Pole wiring kit with part number 31345. First, were gonna need to access the rear cargo area of the vehicle. Behind each taillight is the manufacturers connection. Well be plugging inline with this connector. To make our connection, well need to split the two manufacturers connection. Pressing on the locking tab, well pull them apart. more
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3/30/2012 12:32:08 PM
Base Plate Wiring Harness Installation - 2012 Chevrolet Malibu- Video
Today in this 2012 Chevy Malibu, well be using a 6-Pole Round Pin Connector, part number PK11609 and Diode Kit, part number 38955. Were going to install our 6-Pole Connector here in this space, so first Ill need to remove the lower panels so I can start routing my wire. When routing our wire, we're going to be careful to stay away from pinch points such as the suspension or steering, or extensive heat such as exhaust. Im going to use a piece of air line or pull wire to help me thread it through the frame here of the vehicle. We got our wire run to the back of the vehicle, now we need to get up into the trunk area so that we can attach it to the manufacturers wiring. To do that, were going to need to pull apart some of the rear interior. more
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2/13/2012 1:08:50 PM
Hopkins 4 Pole to 6 Pole and 4 Pole Trailer Wiring Adapter Review- Video
Today on this 2008 Chevrolet Express we are going to install part number 37175 from Hopkins. What this is is a 4-pole to 6-pole and 4-pole adapter. It will install on the existing 4-pole that is on the vehicle and convert it. The first thing we are going to do is tidy up the wires. We are just going to use some electric tape to secure everything together. While we are at it, we will go ahead and show you the functions of the wires. First off we will cover the function of the wires. This is the 4-pole itself and this will plug in to the 4-pole that is already existing on the vehicle. The white wire is the ground and that will get connected to the frame. And then we have the red and blue wires. Traditionally, blue is for brakes. However, on this particular 6-pole, the blue wire is ran to the center pin. So a lot of times the outside pin is going to be for brakes. It just depends on how your trailer is wired up. The red wire here is typically used for a hot lead. However, this is run to the outside pin. So you can actually use either one of these for the hot lead for 12 volts or brake lead, depending on how your trailer is wired up. On this install, we are actually not going to be using these. We are just going to use the 6-pole for lights only. 1:09 more
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4/22/2011 11:34:40 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2006 Chevrolet Uplander 118396- Video
Today on this 2006 Chevrolet Uplander we are going to install part number 118396, the t-one wiring harness from Tow Ready. We are also going to install part number 37185, the adapter 4-pole to 7 and 4-pole multi-tool connector. The first step that we are going to do is go ahead and open up the hatch of this vehicle and remove both taillights. Alright and this is our connection point right here. And we are going disconnect. Push down on this tab here and it comes apart. We are going to repeat the same process on the passenger side. Are next step is to take the t-one wiring harness and the 4-pole part. We are going to tuck it behind the bumper here. Have it out of the bottom so we can pull it over by the hitch. And then we are going to take our connection with the yellow and brown wires and we are going to install that on to the wire harness that comes out from the van. So let us go ahead and snap those two together. We are going to leave that be for now. And then our connection with the green wire, that is going to get routed on to the other side of the vehicle, on the passenger side. So we are just going to take this and just tuck it on down and pull it out the bottom too. With this, we are just going to go ahead and reinstall our taillight and hook up the taillight electrical to this connection right here and reinstall the whole taillight assembly back onto the vehicle. 1:13 more
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4/20/2010 3:33:19 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2002 Chevrolet Impala 18002- Video
Today on this 2002 Chevrolet Impala we are going to install part number 118002 from Tow Ready. This wiring harness is pretty easy to install because everything is going to be available to hook into on passenger side of the vehicle behind the carpet here. I have theses fasteners here just to make it a little easier to get the carpet down. All right and with this wiring harness right here we will go ahead and test each individual wire to find out its function and we will go ahead and make the appropriate connection. more
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8/25/2009 11:09:50 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2004 Chevrolet Impala- Video
Today we are going to be installing a 4-pole, part number 118002, on a 2004 Chevrolet Impala. OK, we are inside the trunk area, and we want to go ahead and access the wires that we are going to be tapping into for our wiring harness. Those wires are actually located directly behind the tail light assemblies on both sides of the vehicle. In order to gain access to those wires, we are going to need to go inside the trunk area and we will first off need to remove these three screws per side and then pull back our carpeting. And you can actually see there are two more set screws that we are going to need to remove as well. And with all the set screws removed, I can go ahead and pull the tail light assembly off. As you can see, here is our main wiring harness, feeding the drivers side tail light assembly here. We have got three wires here. We have got a brown with white, which is going to be the running light lead that we are going to be tapping into the yellow, which is our left turn and left brake signal and then the black, which is the standard ground. And then what we want to do is to take our yellow wire here off of our wiring harness, and we want to go ahead and we are going to attach it directly to the yellow wire on our tail light assembly. more
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5/1/2009 3:58:28 AM
Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2005 Chevrolet Corvette- Video
Today we are going to install part number 118172 from Draw-Tite, and we are going to hard wire this onto a 2005 Chevrolet Corvette. To get access to the wiring, we are going to take off one of the tail lights on each side. Because it is in fact all empty behind here, what we will do is run our wiring up above this license plate here, right next to the license plate light, and then make our connections behind the tail lights. The first step involved is to go ahead and take off the tail lights, one on each end. There is a little screw that comes out from inside, it is located right here. There is a little screw in this area right about here you take out and the light comes off. And you have access to your wiring right here. We will go ahead and just take the lens off for now. We want to do that one on each side. We will go ahead and peel back some of this tape on here to get a little more access to the wire itself. At this point you can actually test the wires and see which function does what. Black is going to be ground, brown is going to be the running light, and yellow is going to be the left-turn signal. more
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1/12/2009 10:03:12 AM
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