etrailer | Tekonsha Prodigy P3 Trailer Brake Controller Installation - 2018 Honda Pilot

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Hey, everybody. How's it going Today, we're gonna be going over and showing you how to install the Tekonsha P3 Prodigy Trailer Brake Controller, here on a 2018 Honda Pilot. So this is what our brake controller looks like installed on our vehicle here. Now, we do have some freedom in regards to mounting, but the best place and I would say the vast majority of the time we're gonna be mounting them about where our right knee would be. So at the seat in a normal position at my foot on the brake and the gas here, as you can see, I'm about six foot. I still have plenty of room here with my leg.

I don't have to worry about hitting that brake controller. So although it does take up a little bit of room, I don't really see that being a problem for most people. So if you are a taller person, you do want some more leg room, we can actually easily remove this braking controller due to the mounting system here. So say, we're not towing most of the time, we probably don't want the brake controller down there. Keep in mind, we will lose all of our presets if we pull power to it, but it's still gonna give us much more room and it's super easy.

Simply lift up on these two tabs on the outside. We can pull the brake controller off and then we can just release the tabs from the back to remove our brake controller completely. And we'd obviously just tuck this wiring harness up under the dash here, but this is how we can have our vehicles set up when we're just riding around town and not towing. So again, keep in mind, if we do pull power from the brake controller each time we want to remove it from the vehicle, we will lose our factory presets. What I mean by that is the Tekonsha Prodigy allows you to store settings for a few different trailers.

So if we just wanna get in each time and have everything set up for that trailer we would just simply select that. We would need to go through that process again, if we did pull power from the unit. And really, the choice is up to you. Whether you want the added leg room or you want the convenience of saving your trailer settings. So one of the great things about the P3, it's super customizable and there's tons of settings we can play with to really suit everything for our particular application.

So here's gonna be the main screen when we don't have a trailer plugged in. Yeah, we want to go through some of the settings in the menu option. We'll hit this bottom in the bottom right. This button in the bottom right. We can use the up and down arrows to go through our settings. So this is the display setting, we hit okay on that. You can see where we can change the brightness of the backlight. So for driving at night, we may want to put that down to low, so it's not blinding us. What if it's super bright in the daytime maybe we need to bump that up a little bit to give us better visibility, but once we select the brightness, we can hit, Okay. It comes preset to normal. So if we hit that again, we can actually go ahead and select our brake type. So this brings up a good point about the Prodigy P3. It's really one of the top of the line brake controller options on the market. So if you have a trailer with electric over hydraulic brakes, meaning the brakes are actually hydraulic and it's controlled by electric actuator. A lot of brake controllers are not actually compatible with this type of braking system. The P3, however, is so all you would need to do is go down to brake type and then select that option. Electric brakes, just standard or hydraulic. Confirm that, go back to our settings. Most trailers are electric so that's where we're gonna leave it. So keep in mind, when we don't have a trailer plugged in, you will see that screen flash. So if we go further into Display's, another cool unique feature of the P3 we can actually change the color of the backlight. You can see all the options we have for that here. So once we plug in a trailer, this is the screen we're gonna be prompted with. So before we take off down the road, we would you wanna to adjust the settings for one of our trailers here. Now, if we have multiple trailers, we talked about it a little bit earlier, but we can actually store those settings into the unit here up to five different trailers. And basically, what you're gonna be storing is the output which you can see is easily adjustable using these arrows on the side here. So for our heavier trailers, we're obviously gonna want a little bit more braking force or as opposed to with just our lighter trailers, We don't want them locking up every time we stop. So we can easily adjust the output here, hit oka