How To: New Boat Trailer Lights 

You’re welcome. These light have been running for over 2 years now and still doing great.

You’re welcome. Glad you found it helpful.

Awesome. Glad I was able to give helpful advice.

Thank you.

Thank you! The wire loom is good at chafe points to keep the wire from being cut or from shorting out but not necessary throughout the entire trailer. I didn’t have any issues with that here so it t was not needed.

Glad you found it helpful. Anything else you want to see let me know and I may be able to walk you though it.

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Most of the time those are used instead of the low tail lights. You can wire them into the existing wires going to your current tail lights though. You’ll need to splice into the current wiring. I’m not a fan of cutting and splicing but that would leave you little options. I would put the ground on the bolt just like I did on the current tail light and use a blue butt connector and put the 2 tail light wires in it and crimp. You can put silicone grease or dielectric grease In the connector before you heat shrink to help keep water out and prevent corrosion. The other option is to run the wire all the way back to the tongue of the trailer and tie in up there so the connector are never submerged.

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Not more prone to breaking unless I run into something. At that point my trailer or guides would have hit the object first. The original lights were not available so I got these because the bolt pattern matched up. Still have not had any issues with them.

@@joecastillomovies check and make sure you have power coming from the vehicle on the flashers and running lights on the vehicle side. Also check connections by giving them a good tug to make sure they are solid. If you do have power coming from the vehicle I’d go to each connection and see where you have lost power from the front to the back.

I could have replaced just the lights and connected them with butt connectors just like in the video but the kit included new wiring so I chose to replace it all.

Your not the only one !!! Feel like the stupidest person right now which flippin wires am I splicing

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I don’t have a particular brand I recommend. I do prefer LED as well as looking for a kit with sealed lights to reduce chances of water intrusion.

No because the ground wire does not carry any power. You do have to have clean metal surface for it to attach to.

If you have new lights your 2 biggest concerns would be 1. A good ground. 2. Getting power to the bulb. Check all of your connections. Make sure your contacts are clean and make sure your connectors are good by tugging on them. It wouldn’t hurt to check your bulb also to make sure it didn’t get jarred loose in shipping. Let me know what you find or if I can help any further.

I bought the entire kit from West Marine. You can probably get them on Amazon also.

@@captleesoutdooradventures7133 with that harness does it only come with 1 connector that goes into truck?

I ordered a kit from Amazon for my 18ft pontoon trailer the wiring that came off was wesbar but I tried putting the new harness on and it had 2 connector male and female the connected to each other but other end didn’t match up to my truck. I’m pretty sure I got the wrong harness

@@jacobluebbing8933 typically the 2-connector plugs connect the lights to the main harness. The main harness is usually a 4 wire set with a 4 way flat plug, link is below (Amazon). Just make sure you get the correct length. a.co/d/hO6v11Z

Think I bought them from west marine so it’s likely.