Redarc Tow-Pro Elite Trailer Brake Controller Installation - 2020 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2500

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Hello, neighbors. It's Brad here at Etrailer. And today, we're taking a look and installing the REDARC Tow-Pro Elite brake controller on a 2020 Sprinter 2500. So here, we have it installed and it looks great. It's functioning wonderfully. And it's right here where I need it to be, right by the steering wheel so it's easy for me to get to this control when I need to manually apply the brakes.

And that's done just at the push of a button here and you can actually see it's illuminating, which is nice because it lets you know that it's actually getting that signal. And adjusting your gain is also gonna be easy here. With this nice back lit feature, you're gonna see it easy to actually get the number according to your gain. Now, if you've had previous brake controllers, a lot of them can be pretty large and clunky, and you're having to mount them here, which can kind of get in the way of your feet. Or you're mounting them down here to where it's not really ideal for applying the brakes when you need to.

Having it right here at my controls is nice because I can access it as soon as I need to. And that's kind of the beauty of the REDARC system. The box is hidden behind here. You can't see it. And all the controls are done here.

And while other brake controllers may have a readout with a screen, and some people like to have those features and be able to check on this, this is simple, easy, and it works without taking a bunch of real estate from your interior of the vehicle. As you can see, I'm moving. And it's really nice because it senses inertia and it's going to light this accordingly. So a small little brake is that light pink, but if I really need to jab on the brakes and it needs to throw those brakes on the trailer on, you're gonna get a nice red readout, letting you know that it's applying hard. Now, as far as install goes on the Sprinter van, this is really easy to do.

You can make it look nice and clean. Everything tucks up well. And there can be an option by getting two piggyback adapters. It's gonna make this plug and play, zero splicing required, and this can be done probably in under an hour. It's really easy and you'll be able to have a trailer brakes within a small period of time. And it's gonna look good in the process doing it. So the REDARC system is a great option for a brake controller that takes up a minimal amount of space as far as mounting it up. Some of your other ones are a little bit chunky and they can get in the way of your knees, and also can be troublesome to get a nice, clean mounting position on them. Well, this is really nice 'cause it's accomplished with this smaller little knob here. And this is gonna plug into our knob and then into our module. Now, off the module, you have this plug which comes with it. and you're gonna see that just plugs in and this is going to run to the wiring to make the connection. And that's fine. This should work okay, but to make it truly plug and play and just a lot easier without having to do any splices, that can be accomplished by getting this piggy tail. And that's going to jump to this style connector, which then will go to this connector. And that'll plug in here. And this is gonna go into the OEM tow package plug, making it nice and easy and not having to splice any wires. To begin routing it, we're gonna start with our Tekonsha wire here and we just need to find the factory plug that this is gonna go into. And so on some of the Sprinters here, you're gonna find that underneath the seat, tucked underneath this panel, you're gonna find a green plug. You may have to dig around a little bit for it, but to make it easy, it is color matched to the plug that we'll be putting it in. Now, there is only one way that it can go. You have a little locking mechanism up here and that's gonna go where this slot is. So go ahead and get that plugged in. Now, finding a path to route this up to our dash where we're gonna mount our brake controller, there's not a whole lot of great options here, so I just kind of routed it up and underneath the seat rail. And I've checked to make sure that the seat can actually move forward and back without any binding. So I'll make sure to zip tie that in place so it doesn't catch. And then the rest of the wire, I'm gonna actually run underneath the floor mat. And that way, we can route it up to our dashboard without any exposed wires. So I've gone ahead and I've attached it. Our customer here has a bracket for their center console, so I'm actually using that to kind of route it down. But just find a nice way to tuck this. And then you're gonn