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Hi everyone. Aiden here with etrailer. Today we're gonna be taking a look at and showing you how to install this Curt T Connector Vehicle Wiring Harness on our 2022 Ford Maverick. This kit is going to give you four pole wiring at the back of your vehicle. This will give us functions for our turn signals, both right and left, brake lights and running lights for our trailers whenever we're going down the road. This does come with a dust cap to cover it up when it's not in use, but it does not include the bracket.

However you choose to mount it is really up to you but you can get brackets like this here at etrailer if you do wanna mount it up this way. And if your Ford Maverick doesn't have the towing package your towing capacity is going to be a little bit lower than the ones that do have it. So chances are you're probably not going to be towing anything super heavy and your trailer probably doesn't have its own brakes. That's where a four pole wiring system like this is great because all you need are those lighting functions to let people know what we're doing when we're going down the road. The nice thing about this kit is that everything is plug and play.

There are a few connections we need to make, but nothing on the actual taillights themselves. All those pieces are completely plug and play, so it makes it really straightforward. Let's check out that process now. Starting the installation off on the driver's side, you'll open your tailgate and locate two screws located on the inside. These are the ones that have the Phillips head slot on the inside.

Use an eight millimeter socket to remove those. (tool operating) With both of those out, you can kind of get your hand on the inside of the taillight here and pull out at a 45 degree angle. There's gonna be two tabs at the back end that will come unhoused and then we can make a disconnection right here and set this aside. After you've completed that on the other side you can grab a piece of airline tubing, wiring, a coat hanger, whatever you need to use to reverse fish wire down through this bottom hole and you'll see it pop out underneath the vehicle. In person you can just look right down through and see the ground.

It might be a little hard to see on camera. But what we'll do is we will tape the end of our custom connector with the yellow wire to the end of this and pull it up through so we can connect it up top. Once this is wrapped up, we can start to feed it back up to our spot where we had our taillight. Then once all of these connectors are up here you can connect this to the vehicle end and whenever we reinstall the headlight housing this will go to that. So with these all connected I'm just gonna push the wires back in there, reinstall the taillight housing, put our screws back in, and then route our green wire over to the passenger side. So our box isn't fully mounted yet but where it'll live is just up here in this cavity. And from there our green wire is running down and away from the exhaust as far as I can get it. We'll probably wrap some wire loom around this. And it goes up high and away from any moving parts, behind the bumper up above our spare tire, pretty much along where the hitch goes, until we get over to the other side of the spare tire, where we fed it through this small gap right here, and out behind the hitch. Right here is just temporary. I'm intending to have my fish wire come back through here and then I can feed this back up through this hole and up into the cavity where it needs to make our connections. Running the fish wire and making our connections on the passenger side is the exact same as it was on the drivers. I've just got all the excess green wire tied together and tucked up nice and high. And then we can get this taillight reinstalled. With all the taillight connections made, we want to mount up this black converter box. I've got double-sided tape on the back of it. I'm gonna peel off the other side and just go ahead and put it as high up here as I can reach with the wire that I've got. And just mount it firmly in place in this cavity, high away from the exhaust. For the ground, we need to find a good place to mount it. Everything under here is pretty painted so we're gonna actually go to the inside of the frame rail right up here to our factory ground. Now right out of the box your kit's not gonna be long enough to reach so what I'm gonna do is actually cut off the end with the ring terminal and I'm going to extend it with some more white wire. So just cut the ring terminal off, strip back the end, (wire cutters snipp