Michael Gain
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I have been slowly installing my traxide kit over the last couple of days.
1) The kit is solid, well constructed, and I am excited to finish the install.
2) the instructions are great, but better suited for the earlier models and does not take into account the stock, two-battery system.
Only three observations at this point:
A) with the Atlantic British trailer wiring kit, and the Anderson plug tracing down the driver side tail light you need to be creative and deliberate with the wiring to get the tail light to re-mount.
B) the firewall passage point is above the main wiring harness and VERY difficult to get to. I had to remove the crossover harness bracket to create enough space for a pry bar to remove the plug. I then used the same space to bore a hole through the insulation. The insulation within the footwell is hard rubber. I had to attack it from the inside with a razor blade to widen the hole enough to pass the wire through.
C) as mentioned previously, the directions did not take into account the start stop battery set up. The three connections on the power distribution box are connected to the start stop battery, the main battery, and the passenger side fuse box.
This gave me quite a scare this morning, as I thought the batter was dead. But really, removing the power distribution box removes the cranking battery's connection to the fuse box. The solution to this is to take one of the short connections from the wire going to the mega fuse (connected on the left side in the picture below)
And then connect that to the fuse box nut and back to the positive terminal nut (I had to bend it slightly to fit)
After I made that connection, the car came back to life. I was able to remove the entire power distribution block bracket and the cross-engine wires.
I also ordered 2x LR069896 to fill the space that the wires left in each battery box.
Other than that, the install has been smooth!
1) The kit is solid, well constructed, and I am excited to finish the install.
2) the instructions are great, but better suited for the earlier models and does not take into account the stock, two-battery system.
Only three observations at this point:
A) with the Atlantic British trailer wiring kit, and the Anderson plug tracing down the driver side tail light you need to be creative and deliberate with the wiring to get the tail light to re-mount.
B) the firewall passage point is above the main wiring harness and VERY difficult to get to. I had to remove the crossover harness bracket to create enough space for a pry bar to remove the plug. I then used the same space to bore a hole through the insulation. The insulation within the footwell is hard rubber. I had to attack it from the inside with a razor blade to widen the hole enough to pass the wire through.
C) as mentioned previously, the directions did not take into account the start stop battery set up. The three connections on the power distribution box are connected to the start stop battery, the main battery, and the passenger side fuse box.
This gave me quite a scare this morning, as I thought the batter was dead. But really, removing the power distribution box removes the cranking battery's connection to the fuse box. The solution to this is to take one of the short connections from the wire going to the mega fuse (connected on the left side in the picture below)
And then connect that to the fuse box nut and back to the positive terminal nut (I had to bend it slightly to fit)
After I made that connection, the car came back to life. I was able to remove the entire power distribution block bracket and the cross-engine wires.
I also ordered 2x LR069896 to fill the space that the wires left in each battery box.
Other than that, the install has been smooth!