Does Toyota make tow wiring kits?

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JoeSpareBedroom - 20 May 2006 21:59 GMT

I can find this out Monday morning from the parts dep't, but I'm curious
now. I've got an 02 Tacoma, and I've been using Hoppy wiring kits for my
trailer light harness. The second one in 3 years just died. I don't feel
like spending more money on crap. I'm wondering if Toyota makes something
that'll do the job.

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Ken Shelton - 23 May 2006 17:49 GMT

> I can find this out Monday morning from the parts dep't, but I'm curious
> now. I've got an 02 Tacoma, and I've been using Hoppy wiring kits for my
> trailer light harness. The second one in 3 years just died. I don't feel
> like spending more money on crap. I'm wondering if Toyota makes something
> that'll do the job.

Toyota markets one, but the price is high. The major alternative to
Hoppy is Wesbar/Reese/Drawtite/HiddenHitch/Fulton/UHaul, and I
think NAPA is the same. These are all brand names of Cequent, and
good products.

Ken

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JoeSpareBedroom - 23 May 2006 18:00 GMT

>> I can find this out Monday morning from the parts dep't, but I'm curious
>> now. I've got an 02 Tacoma, and I've been using Hoppy wiring kits for my
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> Ken

Sorry if this sounds clueless, but I haven't looked any further than your
respose yet. Any idea if those brands require cutting & splicing, or if
they're a plug-in arrangement like Hoppy's?

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Scotty - 24 May 2006 07:46 GMT

>>> I can find this out Monday morning from the parts dep't, but I'm curious
>>> now. I've got an 02 Tacoma, and I've been using Hoppy wiring kits for my
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> respose yet. Any idea if those brands require cutting & splicing, or if
> they're a plug-in arrangement like Hoppy's?

Best idea is to use a make yoru own kit, its only gunna cost you the price
of the cable and plugs/sockets. If you have a soldering iron and a
voltmeter (and are not colorblind its a peice or cake to install. The
hardest part is running the wire which you would do anyway. I admit Im an
electrician but it took me around 2hours to wire and install the light sets
on my trailer and 4runner. Sure beats paying for kits etc. Total cost of
bits was around $60.

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JoeSpareBedroom - 24 May 2006 12:26 GMT

>>>> I can find this out Monday morning from the parts dep't, but I'm
>>>> curious now. I've got an 02 Tacoma, and I've been using Hoppy wiring
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> sets on my trailer and 4runner. Sure beats paying for kits etc. Total
> cost of bits was around $60.

I'm wondering, though, what's in the little black modules that come with the
ready-made kits. If something in my trailer wiring fried that module (and
I'll be going over the trailer an inch at a time tonight), wasn't the
truck's system protected from that by the module?

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Sir F. A. Rien - 24 May 2006 16:14 GMT

>>>>> I can find this out Monday morning from the parts dep't, but I'm
>>>>> curious now. I've got an 02 Tacoma, and I've been using Hoppy wiring
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>I'll be going over the trailer an inch at a time tonight), wasn't the
>truck's system protected from that by the module?

-=IF=- the 'module' requires a separate +12v connection (fused), yes it
should completely isolate the Toy from the trailer.

If not, then it merely combines and re routes the signals/lights from 6 wire
to 4.

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JoeSpareBedroom - 24 May 2006 16:32 GMT

> On Wed, 24 May 2006 11:26:52 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
> <dishborealis@yahoo.com>
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> wire
> to 4.

No separate power on this one. But it is, indeed, fried. I just went over
every inch of the trailer's wiring, checking for frayed insulation. Nothing.
Lights are sealed. What few splices there are were done with oil-filled
crimps, and then double layers of overlapping heat shrink.

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