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Ryan: Hey everybody, Ryan here at Etrailer. Today on our 2017 Toyota Sienna, we're going to be taking a look at and showing you how to install the Hopkins Four-Pole Trailer Wiring Harness. So this is going to provide your trailer with the necessary lighting functions to be safe and legal. And since many Sienna owners use their vans to do a little bit of everything, this is going to get you covered. What sets us apart is that it's going to be pre-wrapped all the way down to our four-way flat connector. So that's a nice touch.
It's something that will keep us a little more protected, that way we shouldn't have to worry about our wires getting damaged. So it's going to have a really thick, nice rubber dust cap, and it's going to be really easy to grab and pull that off.That'll help keep the terminals protected. And what's nice is they actually include a little bit of dielectric grease. So you don't have to worry about getting that separately. That way, from time to time, you can coat your terminals with it and really help prevent any of that corrosion.
Now what's nice about this wiring as well as the fact that it has a module box. So that module box is going to protect your Toyota's factory wiring. If a short or an electrical issue we're to occur on the trailer side. And that really would put my mind at ease, especially with today's newer cars, because we all know how advanced the electrical systems can be.So what's nice about this too, is that this is going to live inside of your Sienna, out of the elements and out of sight. So when you're not using it, you wind it up, keep it in your storage compartment out of the way, whenever you are ready to use it, we'll just grab it and drape it over the threshold.
Now, anywhere on the threshold is fine, where there's weatherstripping with one exception, you want to stay away from this latch area. If it gets caught in there it could potentially get damaged. So we eyeball the length that we need, the four-way connector's really long. So that's nice to have that extra wire there, if you need it.So we'll drape it over and just close our hatch on it. Bend it to try to get it to stay where we want it.
And once we get our hatch closed, we're ready to hook up to our trailer.But other than that, a good wiring harness that should really work out well for you. Now, as far as the installation goes, it's really not complicated, but it is a little bit time consuming. Speaking of which let's go ahead and put it on together now.First thing we need to do is get our tail lights removed. So we'll go ahead and open up our hatch. And that'll allow us to come to the inside portion of our tail light and remove a couple of bolts. So we're going to have two 10 millimeters, go ahead and pull those out. Then we can grab our light and carefully work it side to side just a little bit to loosen it up. And you're going to want to pull back towards you at the same time. So if you're having a little trouble getting the taillight out, one thing you can do is come on the side and just with the palm of your hand, just push back on it.And that's sometimes will help release the clips back here that's holding it in place. And if the tail lights really fighting you, like it is in our case, what you can do is get a plastic trim panel tool or something like that. And just put it behind the taillight lens, put a little bit of pressure on it to release that clip there. Once we get the tail light out, we can then disconnect the electrical. We're going to have two tabs here. You pushed down on the center and pull back. We're able to release them. We can set our taillight to the side. The other taillight is set up the same way. So we're just going to repeat that process over there.Now we can remove this threshold here. So this is going to be held in place by three fasteners, one here, here, and here. These are all going to be removed the same way. So what you do is flip this cargo hook up and this little piece of plastic here in the center, you can take a flat head screwdriver, pop that free. Underneath it we're going to have a 10 millimeter bolt. We'll run that out. And try to work everything out. You may need to grab your flat head again and pry underneath there to pop it out. Once you have it out we'll repeat that process for the other two and we can just set these aside for now. Then we can grab our threshold at the bottom and pull it towards the front and up at the same time, it'll release some clips.That's what the clips will look like. Once we have it out of the way, we'll set it to the side.
25 авг 2024
