Thread: Wiring Trailer Plug to Defender Td5

[quote=DEFENDERZOOK]<span style="color:blue">yes...and a trailer to plug into it as well.....</span>I mean the pre-wired landrover one. If you mean you have one of those then... damn... I'm the only one in the universe without one

<span style="color:blue">no i dont have one of them.....

my towbar was fitted by arb.....i doubt they would have used the genuine harness....

when we used to fit towbars at work....we didnt use the genuine harness...
we used to just splice off the tail lights....

the only towbars that came with the genuine harness were the genuine land rover ones....
not many people were willing to pay one and a half times the price for a genuine....

infact i dont think any of the bull bars were genuine either....
nothing was stamped with the land rover oval.....
they may have been purchased by the dealership from the same manufacturer.....
but they certainly didnt come from LRA.....</span>

[quote=DEFENDERZOOK]<span style="color:blue">no i dont have one of them.....

my towbar was fitted by arb.....i doubt they would have used the genuine harness....

when we used to fit towbars at work....we didnt use the genuine harness...
we used to just splice off the tail lights....

the only towbars that came with the genuine harness were the genuine land rover ones....
not many people were willing to pay one and a half times the price for a genuine....

infact i dont think any of the bull bars were genuine either....
nothing was stamped with the land rover oval.....
they may have been purchased by the dealership from the same manufacturer.....
but they certainly didnt come from LRA.....</span>
Yeah... that's the bit I don't understand. I bought a genuine towbar because it was cheaper, and in the instructions it says to splice the wires off the lights. It even includes the little clips to tap in ?? Crazy 8O

<span style="color:blue">dont use scotch-loks.....they give all sorts of trouble down the track.....

best to solder the connections and insulate with heatshrink tubing.....</span>

Looking under the back tub of my 130, on the drivers side under the fuel cap there is what looks like a plug as described above to fit a trailer plug. This is a 1999 TD5 if that helps.

As the vehicle is bought second hand it has two cables already feeding the trailer plug, one looks like it is running off the back of the drivers side rear lights while the other cable seems to come almost all the way to the front of the vehicle. When I lost following it, it seemed to be under the drivers seat not heading to the battery box - any idea where this would be going?

Has anyone had any luck with buying a genuine plug or hot wiring from the existing plug?

My rig has 2 trailer plugs (big one and little one) both just spliced into the tail lights, and i have had no drama's, just got the single flash of the trailer light without a trailer and continuos flash when trailer fitted. Pretty good system imho.

Can anyone tell me where I can get part # PC114860, or who the manufacturer is?

Can anyone tel me where I can obtain part # PC114860, or who the manufacturer is? I cant seem to fin=d it anywhere....