Hi john, great video. Going to start mine this weekend. Have looked through your videos to find wiring for towbar but can't find it. Could you point me in the right direction please?
hi john, nice video and await the next one about the wiring, just fitting a relay to mine for the charging system and the fridge all fun and games as the relay is a five terminal not a four terminal like ive used before so did have a look round on youtube and came up blank or looking in wrong place thanks, mark
+markpaulene1966 i need to do a talk on it as sadly the memory card corrupted.. on these modern cars EVERYTHING has to be relay switched or the CANBUS system detects it as a fault. that includes 2x tail lights 1x "stop" brake light, the 2x indicators, 1x fog light and 1x reverse light. just take the main live to the 7 "light relays" from the input to the caravan battery/fridge relay. dont bother using solid state relays as i found out they dont work!
Thanks for making the video. Its always nice to know where to pull on the bumper when trying to get it out the clips! Great work, Marc (South Australia)
Hey, I know I'm like 5 years too late, but how did you wire it up? Was it a plug-and-play harness or did you have to connect each cable separately? If that's the case, do you have any idea where I can find the wiring diagrams for my ford? I'm having a hard time finding the reverse and fog light cable... Can you help me out a bit?
Great video on fitting the towbar, I have just fitted one on my MK4 Mondeo. Where is your video, that shows how you connected the electric cable inside the car?
There's a dedicated hole in the chassis with a grommet already in it just for the towbar loom. On the right hand side, when you take that flap off to gain access to the right rear lamp - the hole is in the bottom panel, slightly towards the front of the car. The Ford towbar loom already has grommet on it. Also, you can't have a fixed towbar when you have parking sensors..?
I did but it was taken down :( I used a tow relay which hooks in to the original wiring and boosts the power to work with incandescent style bulbs. If you go direct into the lighting loom without the relay the body control module logs an over current fault and stops power to the bulb
to fix rust, i wire brush to get the loose off, then i paint it with a metal paint with a built in rust converter, then i use Dynax UB as an underseal. if i am undersealing high impact places like wheel arches i will use a thick brush on underseal. i have tried most but the best i have found is Carplan Tetroseal. it goes on really thick. just dont apply direct to rust. rust convert first then apply.
How did you manage to use a torque wrench for the bolts at the exhaust end. I took the hanger off and the heat shield nut as you did. I could not get enough room to use the wrench no mater what I tried. At the towbar end the two nuts where impossible to use the wrench on due to the hanger bars. At the far end I could not get enough room up and down for the T wrench to work. Did you have a small t Wrench? I spent a couple of hours last night trying :(
+Wilson Campbell i used some funny curved "Workzone" ring spanners i got from Aldi/Lidl they have been a life saver for all kinds of hard to reach places.
+Wilson Campbell ahh for those! yeah i nipped them up with the spanners then used a flexible "snake" thingy. it has like a lot of vertebrae (like lots of those universal joint things in socket sets with limited movement) you can put torque through it and unlike the spring type it does not rotationally "flex" so it works pretty well for torquing up annoying to reach bolts.. i got mine from a local market :D
+Wilson Campbell like that.. thats the spring type they flex when you torque stuff up. hmm this was more like a universal joint only like 30 of them all along one line. it had no flex but could be bent into any shape
