T-One Vehicle Wiring Harness with 4-Pole Flat Trailer Connector

Video Transcript for Tekonsha Custom Fit Vehicle Wiring - Trailer Hitch Wiring - 118602 Review

Today we're going to review part number 118602. This is the Tow-Ready T1 vehicle wiring harness with the four pole flat trailer connector. This is a custom fit wiring harness. It is designed to fit the 2013 and 2014 Chevrolet Malibu LTZ models, except the Canadian models. This will provide a four-way flat trailer connector at the back of your vehicle to power your trailer's signal lights. It comes with all the hardware pictured here.

It connects quickly and easily. Basically this will plug into your vehicle's wiring harness, which is located inside your trunk behind the tail lights on both the driver's and the passenger side. Basically you will need to remove the rear threshold panel and some interior lining to access this harness. Basically what you would do is once you plug in the "T" connectors, you have these, the yellow, this connector, with the "T" connector on it with the yellow wires will go to your driver's side. You'd unplug the connectors on the back of your tail lights, plug this in line to that connection. Right here, the one that is green and red, the green would go over to the passenger side.

Same way, you would unplug the connector on the tail light, the back of the tail light, plug this in line to it. What you would end up also having to do, is there is a white wire, this is the ground wire, with the eyelet on the end coming out of the module light, this would have be grounded to a nice clean unpainted surface. They include a self-tapping screw to do that. The four-way, you can see, is coming out and then the other exposed wire is this red wire. This red wire would be the power wire.

This wire you would have to run from the back of your car to the front of the car where the battery is located and this will supply the power to the module light. The way they do that, this will ensure that your vehicle's wiring matches that of your trailer and this powered module connect directly to the battery will help avoid overloading your vehicle's electrical system. Basically, what you would do, is take this wire they include, this length of wire, and on one end, and these butt connectors, you would connect it to this red power wire with the butt connector, run it to the front, and with this other end, you would hook one end to this in-line fuse holder before you attach it to the battery. Use the butt connector, the other one to connect that, and then once you have done that, you have this one here. You would take the eyelet connector, put it on, and that would connect to the positive post of your battery. Then what you would need to do is take the included ten amp fuse, plug it into your fuse holder, and then you can put the cover over it and then it would be all ready to go. Now they also include this double sticky tape pad and that would be used to attach this module light to a flat surface on the rear of your vehicle.

It also includes some cable ties to tie up any loose line that might be dangling down or keep it away from any hot places and it does come with the instructions. It does come with a one-year limited warranty and that should do it for the review on part number 118602, the Tow-Ready T1 vehicle wiring harness with the four pole flat trailer connector. .