etrailer | Curt Powered Tail Light Converter Installation - 2023 Kia Telluride

Click for more info and reviews of this CURT Custom Fit Vehicle Wiring:
www.etrailer.c...
www.etrailer.com
Don’t forget to subscribe!
/ etrailertv
Full transcript: www.etrailer.c...
Hello neighbors, it's Brad here at etrailer. And today, we're taking a look and installing the Curt Universal 4-Pole Trailer Wiring Harness on a 2023 Kia Telluride. Now, adding 4-Pole trailer wiring to any vehicle that you plan on towing or even if you have some accessories that may light up with your light functions, this is gonna be required. And this is gonna give you not only your running lights, your turn signals, but also your brake lights. So that's gonna keep you safe and legal by letting the people behind you know what you're intending to do. Now as far as peace of mind too, this is gonna be module protected as well as has an inline fuse.
So if you ever have any backfeed from your trailer, it's not gonna cause any harm to your factory electronics. So as far as the installation, let's take a look at it. You can go step by step and that way you can get your 4-Pole installed on your Telluride. To begin our installation, we are gonna need to remove both of the taillights. And that's gonna be accomplished, there's this plastic panel here, we do need to pop that off to get to our hardware.
And on this edge here right at the taillight, you're gonna see there's a little slot that allows you to get a small flathead in there. So that's kind of where the clips live. Best thing is just kind of pry back and you'll get one of those there. And then as you work your way down, you can kind of just press it in. If you need to, you can kind of just give it a little nudge here with the screwdriver.
But this panel should come out fairly easily. Just take your time here. And then we could set that aside. And that's gonna give us access to our three 10-millimeter bolts that we're gonna take out. Now, you can also use a Phillips head screwdriver to get these out.
Now, throughout this process, you're gonna wanna make sure you hold on to all your hardware. That way, reinstallation is a lot easier. So, keep it in a nice organized spot. Now to get the taillight to pop out, a lot of times, you can kind of just wiggle it back and forth. There's gonna be some tabs that go into rubber and so sometimes those kind of hold into there. So if you need to, you can use the plastic trim tool to just pry straight out and that should help loosen it. There's gonna be a few of them. They've got two of 'em there, so kind of where your pry points are, just lightly pull on that. And that's gonna give us access to our wires, which we are gonna tie into to get our 4-Pole of work. So for now, I'm gonna just go ahead and push on the tab here. That way, we can separate our taillight, making it a little bit easier to work with. You can peel back some of this electrical tape and then there's gonna be this sheathing here which I'm gonna be using. I just have some small cutters here. Just take your time. You don't obviously wanna cut the wires, so just work your way here. Now, because this is a universal kit, this is gonna need to be extended. And I think that's gonna be the best way to do this. So you are gonna need to pick up a little bit of extra wire and maybe some butt connectors that are heat shrink, and that way, you can extend these wires up. So these are gonna be going on our driver's side. This is gonna give us our running light and our turn signal. So I'm gonna be using some corresponding colored wires just to make sure that they match up, but if not, just make sure you're keeping track of which ones are which and that way you can make your connections. Now, with this kit, Kia has changed the wiring here so there is no direct plug and play at this point. So, this is gonna be the best way to do it. And if you've never used quick splices before, they're pretty easy to use so don't let that scare you off. But what I'm gonna do is grab my extra wire that I have and I'm gonna pass that down as our module's gonna kind of live underneath the rear fascia. We're gonna be tying into two of these wires. The green, I've gone ahead and tested that. That's gonna be for our running lights. So our brown normally corresponds with that. So I'm gonna use my quick splice to connect that now. And I'm gonna go a little bit further back. That way, we're not right against the plug here. And the way these work, you're gonna just feed the wires in through these. Now, one side does look like it's capped, so I normally just put your new wire there. And your other one, you're gonna just kind of slip into here. The main thing that you're looking for is that it stays in this position. That way, when this metal clip goes down, it bites into it well. So I'm gonna slide th

[@abcAccessories4u]

You zip tie the wiring module for the light to the factory harness. Just curious why you didn't use those wires down below since that's their purpose?