Brake controller harness for 4th gen Tacoma?

[ollie03031]

Camperbunga, I have not purchased the Prodigy yet but that is my current plan. I am waiting until spring because I pull an 18 ft equipment trailer to take my antique Tractors to shows and with snow on the ground here there are no shows until summer. I am focused on the Prodigy because as I understand they use a different frequency than Bluetooth so they can run higher power which translates into fewer signal drops. There are at least one white paper in one of the Tacoma brake controller forums that gives detail on installing a hard wired system. I am not positive on this but I bet some of the large trailer sales places can and would do the installation for you as part of selling you a controller. I don’t live too far from a very large travel trailer sales places and they have installed jacks and other accessories On my trailers and they sell different types of brake controllers.

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[Camperbunga]

Camperbunga, I have not purchased the Prodigy yet but that is my current plan. I am waiting until spring because I pull an 18 ft equipment trailer to take my antique Tractors to shows and with snow on the ground here there are no shows until summer. I am focused on the Prodigy because as I understand they use a different frequency than Bluetooth so they can run higher power which translates into fewer signal drops. There are at least one white paper in one of the Tacoma brake controller forums that gives detail on installing a hard wired system. I am not positive on this but I bet some of the large trailer sales places can and would do the installation for you as part of selling you a controller. I don’t live too far from a very large travel trailer sales places and they have installed jacks and other accessories On my trailers and they sell different types of brake controllers.

Thank you. I think I’m going to go wireless. I’m watching the video at etrailer on it. Looks like it’s pretty simple to install

 

[TrustButVerify]

Thank you. I think I’m going to go wireless. I’m watching the video at etrailer on it. Looks like it’s pretty simple to install

I spent the last six months reading about the evolution of this. What a freak show with the stupid decisions Toyota makes.

Like some of you, I was told with absolute certainty that yes, it may not have a trailer controller, but you can add one so easy to the truck because everything's here.

Foolish of me to believe such lies. I forgot that if the salesman's lips are moving, it's just a stream of absolute bullshit coming out of them.

Good tip on that wireless controller. For the time and effort involved, I can't think of a better way to do it.

Looks like I can spend hours trying to install one, or just pop this thing in and boom Bob's your uncle:

https://www.etrailer.com/Trailer-Br...Tacoma/2024/TK94FR.html?vehicleid=20245003343

 

[Camperbunga]

I’m actually on hold with Toyota headquarters as we speak because the Toyota sales manager, who promised to help me, is now ignoring my calls. I actually ordered that one and am so appreciative of the info I’ve found in this forum. This is why car salesman have such bad reputations.

 

[ollie03031]

Camperbunga, instead of cutting my cable from the trailer to the truck like they do in the video I plan to purchase a new cable at Tractor Supply or a RV dealership and cut that one up and save the one I remove from the trailer in case I ever want to revert to the old setup or replace the traile.

 

[Camperbunga]

Camperbunga, instead of cutting my cable from the trailer to the truck like they do in the video I plan to purchase a new cable at Tractor Supply or a RV dealership and cut that one up and save the one I remove from the trailer in case I ever want to revert to the old setup or replace the traile.

I saw that they cut it. That’s not mandatory though right? I can zip tie slack? I’m a 67 yr old woman. I can do a lot of things like putting my truck cover on, installing side rails, operating my camper but I don’t think I can do electrical..maybe. I haven’t tried.

 

[ollie03031]

You could probably zip tie it but it just a big loop of heavy cable taken up Space. You will still need to remove and replace some wires on the trailer As part of the install. The CURT controller is a simple just plug in controller but I was not totally sold on it after reading some of the reviews.

 

[ollie03031]

I stand corrected you don’t have to cut any wires if you just coil up the trailer cable and find away to zip tie it out of the way.

 

[Camperbunga]

I have the curt plug in one. I didn’t like it because it’s controlled with a phone. I replaced with a tekonsha that plugged into my old car. The wireless one is very similar

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