etrailer | Curt T-Connector Vehicle Wiring Harness Installation - 2011 Kia Sportage

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Clayton: Hello, everybody. Clayton here at etrailer.com. At etrailer.com we test fit, install, and review a ton of different products to help you as a customer make a more educated decision for your vehicle.And today I have a 2011 Kia Sportage. We'll be taking a look at, and I'll show you how to install, the CURT T-Connector 4-Pole Wiring Harness. Our 4-Pole wiring is going to allow us to get those necessary lighting functions back to our trailer or cargo carrier. This is going to allow us to not only travel legally, but also safely.
Our 4-Pole is going to have a nice dust cover to protect our plugs from the elements.Now, this is a pretty easy kit to get installed. One really nice feature about it is that it's plug-and-play, so we don't have to splice into any of our vehicle's wiring. Also, our module is going to be contained inside of the vehicle behind the grommet, so we don't have to worry about any dirt or debris getting in that module and potentially screwing up our wiring going down the road in a few years.Now, in terms of installation, this really isn't that bad to get installed. Like I said, it's plug-and-play. The hardest part is going to be running our wire up to our battery.
So we've gone over some of the features. We've talked a little bit about installation. I'll show you how to get this installed on your car now.To start our installation, we're going to be removing a wiring harness located here behind our driver's side wheel. As you can see, there's a plug right here. Just want to pull out here and try to get this clip undone.
If we actually pinch it together, we can push it out. Now we just want to push down on this tab and pull our plug apart. So again, we're just going to push on this tab and then pull our harness apart.Now we're going to grab a nylon pry tool and pull this grommet out of our floorboard, just like that. Then we just want to cut this grommet. We do want to be careful not to cut the wiring inside of the grommet.
Once we get through the grommet completely, we can remove it and it'll be re-installed in a later step. With our grommet removed, we just want to push our plug back up into the car. Now we'll move up to the top side.Now the trunk area of our vehicle, we went ahead and lifted out the trunk liner. We now need to remove three of these plastic push-pins on our back panels. We're going to grab a small flat-blade screwdriver, carefully unthread it. You don't want to push too hard or else it won't come out.Now with that released, we can grab our trim panel tool. Pry out on the head of the plastic push-pin. Pull the push-pin out on the bottom and kind of pry the whole thing out. We'll repeat that same process for our other two push-pins.With our three fasteners removed, we can now pull up on our kick panel. You want to work your way from left to right. We now lift our kick panel out and set it off to the side. We're now going to be removing three Phillips-head screws; one located here, one located here, and one located here. That's going to allow us to pull this panel out a little bit and work behind it. Again, there's three Phillips-head screws.We can now remove our left tail lamp. We're going to grab a Phillips-head screwdriver and remove this screw and this screw. With our two screws removed, we can pull back on our tail lamp. We just want to pull straight back, towards the back of the vehicle. Just like that, we have our taillight assembly out. We're now going to push down on this tab here and then pull straight back to disconnect our tail lamp. We can set this off to the side.We can now I grab a nylon pry tool. We're just simply going to pry out on this body panel here. It's kind of hard to see down here, but if we reach down you can grab that harness that we pulled up through the bottom. We can now grab our new wiring harness. We are now going to take this side here and simply slide it over our plug. You hear a nice, audible click. Now we can grab our module and drop that back to through bottom.In our case, we do have a bracket on our hitch to mount our 4-Pole wiring, so we're just going to drop everything back through. Before we can drop our wiring through the bottom, I do want to strip this back just a little bit more and then we can add our black wire for the power. Again, we're going to be using the black wire off of our module.I'm going to grab our provided butt-connector. We'll crimp that down, then grab the long black wire provided in our kit. We'll strip that back. I'm going to trim a little bit of that off. I left too much. And then we'll simply add this to the other