Curt Auxiliary LED Indicator Lights
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CURT Accessories and Parts
- Hitch Bike Racks
- Hitch Cargo Carrier
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Auxiliary indicator lights adds visibility and safety to a cargo carrier, bike rack, or other towable accessory. LEDs in each strip correspond with brake, turn, and running lights. Includes 2 light strips, adhesive backing, and wiring harnesses.
Features:
- Auxiliary indicator lights offer increased visibility and safety on cargo carriers and bike racks
- Double row of LEDs in each strip correspond with brake, turn, and running lights
- LED strips are right and left specific
- Easy installation - just stick on and plug into your 4-way flat connector
- 3M adhesive backing for secure, convenient mounting on a variety of surfaces
- Durable, waterproof construction for lasting weather resistance
- Dimensions
- Wiring harness: 71" long
- Light bars: 7" long
- Light bars with wiring: 22" long
- 2 LED light strips, 3M adhesive backing, and wiring harnesses included
- Limited lifetime warranty
53201 Curt Auxiliary LED Indicator Lights
Item # C53201
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Video of Curt Auxiliary LED Indicator Lights
Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Video Transcript for Review of Curt Hitch Cargo Carrier - Hitch Bike Rack - C53201
Today, we're going to take a look at the Curt auxiliary led indicator lights. Now these auxiliary indicator lights will offer increased visibility and safety for your cargo carrier bike racks. They offer double row LEDs in each strip that'll cause correspond with the brake turn and running lights. The LED strips are right in less specific and they are stamped on their L for left R for right. It's very easy installation. They just stick on and plug into your four way flat connector on the back of each light strip.
There's a nice 3m adhesive backing. It gives you a secure, convenient mounting on a variety of surfaces. And each light is a durable, waterproof construction for lasting weather resistance. What I want to do is I'm going to give you some dimensions on these, and then we're going to hook them up to power just to show how they light up and how they operate.Basically the wiring harness, which is plugged into your four-way connects to your lights. Length on this is going to be 71 inches.
The light bar, each one length wise is going to be seven inches long. And the wiring is 22 inches of wiring on each light bar. Does include everything shown here. The two LED light strips with the 3m adhesive backing on the back and the wiring harness to plug it in. So what I'm going to do now is we're going to show you.
You'll take your yellow connector and you can see it has this threaded connector on it. And then you just line up, it's a three pin connector and it has a little raised area that you just line up and push them together, take your threaded part, and then just thread it all the way up until it secures it and that'll keep it connected.So it doesn't come apart. The blue one will do the same way, line it up, push it on and go ahead and thread on the connector all the way down until it tightens up. So now both of your lights are connected and then we'll take our four way and I got my four way here. So we'll go ahead and plug that in.And once we get that all plugged in, there we go.
I'll go ahead and turn on our 12 volt power. And you can see with our 12 volt power on. It can see that the top row of LEDs will light up and that would be for your running lights. Okay. And then I'm just going to go ahead and turn off the overhead lights. You can see how bright they are as the running lights. And then when we hit our brakes, you can see when you hit your brakes, you'll see that the bottom row of lights will light up. So you hit your brakes, the bottom row lights up. And then if you do your turn signal, just want to show you that you can do that way you'll do your left turn. I'm sorry, your right turn. That would be this one over here.And then if you do your left turn, Turn my power off. There you go. There would be your left turn signal. Very nice LED lights to give the brightness and turn back on our overhead lights and turn off our power. But that should do it for the review on the Curt auxiliary LED indicator lights..
Customer Reviews
Curt Auxiliary LED Indicator Lights - C53201
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (76 Customer Reviews)
Auxiliary indicator lights adds visibility and safety to a cargo carrier, bike rack, or other towable accessory. LEDs in each strip correspond with brake, turn, and running lights. Includes 2 light strips, adhesive backing, and wiring harnesses.by: Michael06/22/2021
In my opinion a clear 5 star ordering experience from beginning to end. High quality product arrived well-packed and exactly as described on company web site - which was easy to navigate. ordering was a breeze, shipping was fast and delivered even faster that I had anticipated. HIGHLY recommend this company and their products.
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Very well. Much of the driving is at highway speeds 120 KPH the product stays affixed perfectly, works perfectly and I was actually complimented by a Highway Patrol Officer who said he could clearly see its operation. Still a 5 Star rating!
Michael - 06/23/2022by: Rusty 07/26/2021
This is a great add on because the bike rack blocks the turn signals.
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by: Dave12/10/2021
Very easy installation on my Thule bike carrier.
Excellent add-on for road safety.
Thanks for a great product.
by: Mike 07/09/2022
Great product simple mount and plug-in application! Bought it to use on my Saris bike rack, I mounted it to the rack using zip ties, it has stayed in place and it works really well. Gives me some additional peace of mind that others can see the rack and also know when I am stopping or turning.
by: Michael07/19/2021
Love the lights. I installed them on my bike carrier because I was worried that the bikes would block my brake lights from the cars behind me. I just taped them to the rack in case I want to use them on a cargo rack. Very nice lights. I’m going to buy another pair.
by: Todd05/12/2022
One part of LED's failed to work for one light not too long after using it. Otherwise, a decent product and doing what I need it to do as supplemental light. Will get another one and see if it lasts longer.
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I will have our Customer Service team reach out to you. The lights do have a lifetime warranty.
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Jenny N - 05/12/2022by: Gary04/17/2022
This is the second set of these that I have ordered. It worked so well on my first RV tow behind vehicle - I am going to install them on my new tow behind vehicle. The lights are very visible in the day light and especially at night. This is especially important to me as my RV's tail lights are mounted down low and are not visible from directly behind the tow vehicle when it is being towed. This time I will be mounting them using magnetic strips vise directly attaching them to the tow vehicle just because there is no good location to permanently mount them.
by: James06/20/2022
The item has arrived promptly and in good condition. We have not yet installed it, because it will need to be stuck to the horizontal bars of our rack, where the wheel cradles attach. We want to be sure that we have settled on a bike placement where the wheel cradles won't need to use the space that the lights end up being attached to. Will update and downrate if we run into any issues.
by: Georgette05/08/2022
The LED light kit works just as advertised. We have a Thule T2 Classic 2-Bike Hitch Rack and the size of the light bars is perfect!
by: Duane 07/23/2022
The product works great and the process of buying it from etrailer was great also . It was processed and sent fast . Would recommend to anyone to buy here ,I will use etrailer again.
by: Edgar06/07/2022
I tested them and worked just fine. I have not used with the tray. The lights will be very helpful, I like thr quality of the product.
by: Preston 12/28/2020
LED Lights work exactly as described. Highly recommend. I used zip-ties to attach the wires to the trailer. etrailer made sure to delivery the product by our deadline before we departed on our trip.
Comments
Update, 12 months later, lights have continued to function. Product works as described.
Preston - 12/29/2021by: Steven 07/29/2021
Outstanding customer service
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Great product. I’m planning to order another set for a new bike rack I am building
Steven - 07/30/2022by: John01/09/2022
Good product but light assembly adhesive tape released on one side causing the light to break off after dragging on the road. This was during a winter ice storm so temperature or moisture ingress could be a factor of why the double sided tape released. too bad it did not have a screw mount to ensure it would stay affixed.
by: Patsy 12/12/2021
Works perfect on our Thule bicycle carrier. We carry two bikes & they extend over the tail light. This is attached to the carrier perfectly. Great product!
by: Katherine 12/20/2021
Easy to install. Seems to work well for our application. We have a hitch bike rack and cover our bikes while traveling. That blocks the indicators on our truck so auxiliary lights are needed for safety
by: Patrick 11/12/2021
Received package 4 days ahead of time. Always good. Are smaller than I thought(shipping box fit in mail box!), but are exactly as described. Plenty bright, leads are long enough for a swing away bike rack.
I did have a challenge getting turn signals to work, but it was not the fault of the system, it was the fault of the previous van owner who did not have it wired correctly!
by: David 12/15/2021
Perfect for my application - hitch cargo carrier. etrailer representative was great! Connection / connector between the wire and lights seems a bit fragile - had to add electrical to on.
by: Richard05/13/2022
Great addition to cargo carrier for safety purposes.
by: Terence06/14/2022
The products that I ordered were built good and the delivery was only a few days
by: James 01/20/2022
The perfect addition to my hitch basket and the only one I saw that came with everything I needed including the 4 prong connector
by: Marvin 12/15/2021
Fit perfectly and provides good rear brake and turn signals from my bike hitch. etrailer had great links to installation instructions.
by: Hassan12/19/2021
Nice, simple setup. It is quite small though. I don't understand why there have to be connections instead of just straight cable. Also, It seems the 4 pin plug may be the weak point in this. It's fine for occasional use, but really is too small and not very bright for safety.
by: Jeffrey09/23/2020
When I attached my bike rack loaded with two bikes to the truck you couldn’t see my brake lights or turn signals. These were just what I needed and were easy to install.
by: Dicky07/18/2022
order was delayed but no fault of etrailer they have a great service.
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