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Rob: Hey everybody. Rob here at etrailer.com and today we're going to be taking a look at the Curt T-connector vehicle wiring harness on a 2019 Mitsubishi Mirage. Now our Curt harness is going to provide us with a four-pole flat trailer connector so we have all the required lights to get down the road safely with the trailer. Like our taillights, our turn signals and our brake lights. Now what I really like about this wiring, not only are they going to give you a dust cover to protect the connector, keep all that dirt debris and anything out, but it's going to be on the inside of the vehicle until we're ready to use it. You can see you have it dropped out the back of the hatch so we can use the wiring or whenever we want to store it and we're not using it, we can simply store it inside by our spare tire.Now I know a lot of customers don't like the idea that purely because the wires sitting on the back here and you're closing the hatch.
But so long as you're not at the latch mechanism itself, it's perfectly fine because the weatherstripping here is going to provide enough cushion and give to where the wire's not going to get pinched. Another nice thing about our wiring is that it has a converter box. And what that's going to do is it's going to take the signal from our taillights and transfer it to a working signal for our trailer, but it's also going to protect our Mirage. In case there was a problem on the trailer where we have a short circuit, we don't have to worry about any kind of back feeding or damage happening to our Mirage because that converter box is going to protect it.Now, I do know that a lot of people are kind of nervous when it comes to wiring because they don't want to start cutting into any wires or doing any kind of thing like that to their car. But fortunately this is a completely plug and play installation.
There's no cutting or splicing into any wires. It's just going to use a simple T-connector behind the tail lights to plug in line with the taillights and get the signals. In fact, you're really only going to need about a flathead screwdriver or maybe a trim panel tool to get the entire job done. Let's go and do that process together now. To begin our installation, we want to open up the rear hatch on our Mirage.
Now right here at the very back we're going to have this threshold panel. Now it's going to come up pretty easy. We just want to grab the bottom of it and lift straight up. Probably it'll be easier if you start on the side, kind of work your way across, kind of pull outward at the edge and then lift up and we'll set this aside.Now, if you did have these clips that got stuck in there, that's okay, but we do want to remove them before we put the panel back in place. So you can get yourself a trim panel tool.
Just want to pull that out and then if you flip your cover over, you'll see the little notch that goes in there and you just slide it back in place. Now at this point, want to go ahead and pull the floor covering out. So we can pull that small piece of carpet out. We'll set it aside for now. Underneath the carpet, if we look at the side panel here, we're going to have a few push pins on the floorboard of the car and then at the back threshold or right next to where the threshold was we'll have another push pin. We need to pull all three of these out so we can loosen this panel on the interior here. Now you can use a flat blade screwdriver or a trim panel tool. Just want to come underneath the push pin and pry up.Once you have the push pins loose, just kind of want to grab the panel so we can get access back here. And we're going to do the same thing on the other side as well. So we've got the panels loose on both sides and they actually just use this strap to hold the panel back. So I have access and so you can see inside there. Now inside that pocket, we're going to find our taillight connector. It's going to look pretty similar to the one that's on our wiring harness, but there's a little tab on there. We're going to press that tab, squeeze it so that we can disconnect the two connectors.Let me grab our wiring harness. And we're going to be working with the side that has the yellow and brown T-connector on it. Now you can see our T-connector's going to have a double-sided connector. One side it's going to connect into the taillight end and one side is going to plug into the harness that way it's in line. Before we connect everything, though, I do like to put a little bit of dielectric grease on both ends of the connector and that'll hopefully just cut down on any corro
6 май 2020
