eTrailer.com Curt Trailer Hitch Installed

[jrm223]

22 hours ago, Fifty150 said:

Sounds like you are making it work for you.   

 

There's a triangle shaped plastic trim piece in front of your mirror and behind the door hinge.  Remove that. You will see a hole which will allow you to run wire into the cabin.  Then you can run your wires into the van, and to the rear, right alongside the OEM wire run. 

 

I was trying to figure out how to get that off, but didn't want to break it. I reckon that will probably require the panel trim tools to safely remove it, yea? For right now, the wire comes out just ahead of that triangle, goes around the outside and then back into the door opening - ghetto as all get out, but I didn't want to chance breaking that piece of triangle plastic. But at least my van and the wire are both black (who knows why Curt would send black for the positive power, although it uses a white ground - which is house wiring color scheme, white neutral).

[Fifty150]

Here is a view of my wire going into the void next to the door hinge.  I am using 3 wires because my lighting is set up that way.  You should be using 2 wires, for power and ground.

 

 

Your wire should exit right behind the wheel well.  From there, pop off the plastic fastener to peel back your sill plate which runs along the unibody pinch seam.  Insert the wire and run it to the next plastic fastener.  Replace the first fastener, pop off the next fastener, keep running wire.

 

Here is a view of the sill plate as it begins behind the wheel well, and the very first plastic fastener to remove.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[MLB]

On 7/9/2018 at 3:58 PM, Fifty150 said:

 

 

Possible.  Your van left the assembly line, and shipped to U.S.A. with windows.  The windows were removed once the vans arrived in the U.S.A., and then those panels were glued in.  All Transit Connects arrived in U.S.A. as wagons.  Then they are stripped down and converted to vans.  Unfortunately, all of those seats, windows, interior, headliners, et cetera, are destroyed and recycled.  To my knowledge, none of those parts are saved for resale.  Buyers of vans who want windows are left to look in the aftermarket, while the OEM parts are being disposed of.

 

Pretty sure this was the way it was at first, but no longer.