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On Jan 2, 11:09*pm, boater wrote:
Frogwatch wrote:
Attaching the tow bar with hitch to my new Nissan Frontier was easy.
They even had a connector already for plugging in my 4 wire trailer
connector. *It seemed great but I had no lights even after I checked
it. *No power to the factory installed connector so none to the
trailer. *OK, go buy a shop manual and schematic reveals something
called "tow relays", WTF? *Go online and find that ohters have had
this issue. *Apparently, you have to install some relays somewhere and
they are dealer items only. *CRAP, I have a low opinion of dealers but
I decide to go to the local Nissan dealer (Kraft Nissan) with my
speech ready (ALL I want is to buy the fuc$#ng relays). *Instead, the
parts guy was very helpful. *Yes, I did have to buy a $70 relay kit
consisting of a very complicated wiring harness, 3 relays, a trailer
connector and mounting hardware AND I had to remove the passenger side
kick panel to install this stuff, BUT, It works.
Is'pose the days of just running some wires to the tail lights are
gone and I have no idea of why this system is so complicated. *At
least it works.........until it stops working and someone has to
diagnose it.


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Yeah, that's why he only gets 300K miles or so out of a vehicle,
dumbass.
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