Capebuild wrote:ARGGHHH!! What a Cluster F of an experience trying to figure this out. Again, I don't really get why the wiring of these connectors are not standardized so all wiring set ups "speak the same language".
So all the wiring colors correspond with one another.
Finally got it though. What I did was just hook up the lights directly to the seven pin connector on the tow vehicle, bypassing the trailer. Determined which connectors provided the correct functions to the lights.
Then paired up those connectors with those on the 7 pin connector attached to the trailer's wiring. Forget about the wire's colors, just matched up the functions. In the end, all worked well. As an example, the left tail light and left turn signal wound up using the white to white wires (ground), the green trailer's wiring to the black wire on the light, and the red trailer's wire to the red wire on the light.... worked. For the right turn signal/ right tail light..... white to white (ground), green trailer wire to black wire on light and brown trailer wire to red on light... worked. The thing that made all clear was testing each individual light directly to the tow vehicle's 7 pin and relating that all to the 7 pin connectors on the trailer's wiring. Again... forget about the wiring's colors. Got the marker lights and license plate light to work as intended... even got the 3rd brake light to work as intended. All of these are LEDs.
A frustrating experience to say the least but got all to work. Smile.
John
Tom&Shelly wrote:[quote="
Glad you figured it all out John! I bought a bunch of different color heat shrink (on Amazon) then went and put some on each end of each wire, with whatever color code I decided was "my standard". Then to heck with the color of the wires.
Tom
swoody126 wrote:John you have resolved your issue for now butt you still need one of these tools and for less than $10 you aint gonna miss any meals to have one in your kit
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