etrailer | Curt T-Connector Vehicle Wiring Harness Installation - 2020 Toyota RAV4

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Conner: Hey guys, how's it going Conner here today at etrailer.com. We're going to be taking a look at the Curt T connector vehicle wiring harness here for our 2020 Toyota RAV4.Our Curt T connector wiring harness is going to be an excellent option here for our RAV4. It's going to provide us with the standard four pole trailer connector, which is going to be used on most smaller and even some medium duty trailers. Now this four pole connector here is going to have the basic lighting functions such as the stop, turn signals as well as the running light circuit. So our trailer connector is obviously going to be used mostly for pulling a trailer to activate the lights. However, we can also use this if we have a bike rack or cargo carrier with builtin tail lights.So in regards to mounting, we have a few different options.

As we can see here you have our trailer connector just routed out through the rear hatch area and loosely tied to our trailer hitch. And when we're done with it, we can fold it up and store it inside the vehicle. This is going to offer a wiring harness, the most protection so we don't have to worry about any damage from the elements like corrosion, which could cause trailer lighting issues.So the other option we have, which we're going to go into more detail later on in the video, is how to permanently mount our trailer connector to the outside of the vehicle here using a series of brackets. And this is going to make for the most permanent installation. It's also going to be the most easiest to access.

However, we may run into some issues with corrosion because again, our trailer connector is going to be stored on the outside of the vehicle.So in regards to installation, something that's going to be pretty straightforward, definitely something you can do at home by yourself because we're not going to need any special tools. I'll also go so far as to say this is definitely one of the easiest trailer wiring harnesses I've installed that connects behind the tail lights. Everything's going to be plug and play and the best part is we don't have to run that pesky power wire all the way up to the vehicle's battery because the battery on our particular model, since it is a hybrid, is it going to be located in the rear hatch here. So when we're not using our trailer connector, all we do is simply want to wrap it up here in a nice little bundle and we can easily store it below this floor covering so it's out of sight and out of mind until we need to use it.Now that we've gone over some of the benefits and features, let's jump right into the installation and show you how easy this is to do yourself. So to start our installation today, we need to come into the hatch of the vehicle here.

We need to remove a couple panels. We're going to have to remove these two side panels here. We're also going to have to remove the trunk liner here or the floor covering if you will. We're going to lift this up. Then we're just going to slide it out like so.

So once we have the floor covering up, we can go ahead and remove these side panels next. These are simply just going to pop out like so.So now that we have those panels out, we have one more we need to remove, which is this rear scuff panel here. So we went ahead and just pulled back our weatherstripping. Now we're going to take a pry tool. If you have a flat blade screwdriver, that would probably work as well. We're essentially just going to get up underneath this panel here and gently try to evenly pry up on both sides to release the locking tabs. Now, once we have some of the tabs released, we're going to come on the inside of the vehicle here. See this lower portion of the scuff panel, and we're just going to pull this out and away from the body of the vehicle working our way up to release the rest of the clips. Now we can set this aside.So now we need to come to our side panel here and at the top we're going to have a push fastener we need to remove, one on either side. We're just going to take a trim panel tool. If you have a flat blade screwdriver, that should work as well. We basically just want to pry the center out. That should allow us to remove the rest of our fastener here. So now that we have our push fasteners removed from the top here, we want to come down underneath and remove our cargo hook using a 10 millimeter socket. Again, we need to do this same process on the passenger side of the vehicle as well. So now that we have all of our fasteners out of the side panel here, we need to go ahead and pry this back away from the vehicle starting wi