etrailer | Curt T-Connector Vehicle Wiring Harness Installation - 2019 Ford Escape

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Hey everybody, how's it going Today we're gonna be going over and showing you how to install the CURT T-Connector trailer wiring harness here on a 2019 Ford Escape. So this trailer wiring harness is gonna allow you to tow a trailer here with your Escape because it is one of the few required things that we need in order to tow a trailer. Now in addition to this, we're gonna need a trailer hitch and a ball mount/hitch ball. All of which we offer here at etrailer. Now the trailer wiring harness is simply put is gonna transfer those signals from the vehicle to our trailer so we can let other motors down the road know what signals we're gonna be making. A lot of the time your trailer is actually gonna block the taillights on your vehicle.
So we still need a safe way to communicate those signals to other. This is not only a state requirement, it's also a legal requirement in every state. Now this kit is gonna provide us with a four-way flat also known as a four-pole trailer connector. This is gonna carry over all of your basic lighting signals, such as the stop and turn signal circuits for either side, as well as the running light circuit. Now, nine times outta 10, this is gonna be what you need here for the Escape.
Now if you have a larger trailer with electric brakes, you'll actually have to adapt this to a seven-way and we have some kits for that here at etrailer as well. But again, nine times outta 10, you're just gonna need the standard four-way for all your basic lighting functions. So this kit is actually going to be completely plug and play. Therefore, you don't have to do any splicing into the vehicle which everyone likes. I mean, it's obviously nice.
We don't wanna potentially damage the vehicle or avoid our warranty. Now this does actually require a power wire to be ran to the front of the vehicle to the battery. We get a lot of people to ask us if they could hook this up to something inside at the rear. No, you cannot. You do have to run it to the front.
But having this powered modular light box is really actually gonna help us because it's gonna protect everything. It's gonna protect the vehicle from the trailer and vice versa. It's also not gonna be pulling power from your vehicle's taillight so you don't have to worry about overloading those circuits. Now the rest of the installation is pretty simple. The bulk of it, as we said, is routing the wire from the front to the rear. But aside from that, again, it is very straightforward. This is definitely someone with little to no mechanical experience can do by themselves at home in just a few hours. You will need some wire crimper and wire strippers, but that's about it as far as tools goes. Everything else is pretty basic. Let's go ahead and walk you through the entire process step by step now. So the first step for installation today we need to open up the hatch on our vehicle here. And inside next to our taillight pocket, we're gonna have these two little circular plastic covers. We'll take a small flathead screwdriver and pop those out. Now once we do that, we're gonna take an eight millimeter socket and remove those two screws that we just revealed. Next, we're gonna pull the taillight out and away from the vehicle, making sure we're careful to pull straight out so we don't damage any of the alignment tabs. Now once we have the taillight out and away from the vehicle, we're gonna go ahead and remove this electrical connector here. So this is usually held into place with a tab. So if we press down on that tab and pull out, you should be able to remove the taillight. So we've got this side out, we're just gonna repeat those same few steps over on the other side. Now at this point, we're gonna be removing everything from the cargo area here because we actually need to remove the floor panel. So everything you have in your trunk, go ahead and get out now. So our floor covering is just gonna pull straight up and out. Now that we have all the other stuff out here, we've got our floor covering off. We need to look in the back corner here. Now you may have one or multiple electrical boxes. Depending on how many you have, you wanna go ahead and remove the connectors for all of them. So we just have the single black one back here. Just go ahead and pull these connectors off. There's a little tab you press, pull straight out. Pretty simple and straightforward. Now we need to go ahead and remove these storage trays. So this is done by removing these two little push pin fasteners with a trim panel tool. So let's go ahead and pry those out. And again, we have two of them, two on either side there. And once w

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I’m wondering if the 2019 escape titanium if I need to connect the red wire to the brakes or if it should be grounded?

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It depends on how your taillights operate. If the brake lamp and turn signal use the same bulbs, then you'd ground the red wire with the white wire. If those functions use separate bulbs, you'd ground the wire and tap the red wire into the brake lamp circuit. Hope that helps!
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