Does Toyota make tow wiring kits?

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.

JoeSpareBedroom wrote:[color=blue]
> 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.
>
>[/color]
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

"Ken Shelton" <shelton@cablespeed.com> wrote in message
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> JoeSpareBedroom wrote:[color=green]
>> 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.[/color]
> 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[/color]

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?

"Scotty" <scoter1@warmmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "JoeSpareBedroom" <dishborealis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:tcHcg.1944$Oh1.15@news01.roc.ny...[color=green]
>>
>> "Ken Shelton" <shelton@cablespeed.com> wrote in message
>> news:kYednWGzk4CCoO7ZnZ2dnUVZ_uqdnZ2d@cablespeedwa.com...[color=darkred]
>>> JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
>>>> 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[/color]
>>
>> 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?
>>[/color]
>
> 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.
>[/color]

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?

On Wed, 24 May 2006 11:26:52 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom" <dishborealis@yahoo.com>
found these unused words floating about:
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>
>"Scotty" <scoter1@warmmail.com> wrote in message
>news:44740143$0$9011$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...[color=green]
>>
>> "JoeSpareBedroom" <dishborealis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:tcHcg.1944$Oh1.15@news01.roc.ny...[color=darkred]
>>>
>>> "Ken Shelton" <shelton@cablespeed.com> wrote in message
>>> news:kYednWGzk4CCoO7ZnZ2dnUVZ_uqdnZ2d@cablespeedwa.com...
>>>> JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
>>>>> 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
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>[/color]
>>
>> 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.
>>[/color]
>
>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?
>[/color]
-=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.

"Sir F. A. Rien" <jaSPAMc@gbr.online.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 24 May 2006 11:26:52 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
> <dishborealis@yahoo.com>
> found these unused words floating about:
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>>
>>"Scotty" <scoter1@warmmail.com> wrote in message
>>news:44740143$0$9011$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...[color=darkred]
>>>
>>> "JoeSpareBedroom" <dishborealis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>> news:tcHcg.1944$Oh1.15@news01.roc.ny...
>>>>
>>>> "Ken Shelton" <shelton@cablespeed.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:kYednWGzk4CCoO7ZnZ2dnUVZ_uqdnZ2d@cablespeedwa.com...
>>>>> JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
>>>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>[/color]
>>
>>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?
>>[/color]
> -=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.
>[/color]

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.