Trailer Wiring Harness Installation - 2004 Nissan Pathfinder - etrailer.com

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Today on this 2004 Nissan Pathfinder, we will be installing Tow Ready wiring harness part number 118361. We are here in the rear cargo area of the Pathfinder and we are going to go ahead and point out the mounting location for our wiring harness. The ports that we are going to be plugging into are located on the inside of the vehicle here, behind the interior panels on both the driver and passenger side. The plugs we are looking for are basically behind the taillights themselves. So to gain access to those, we are going to need to remove a few things. We are first going to need to remove the rear threshold piece here at the rear cargo section of the vehicle. As you can see, we have six Phillip head screws that we are going to need to remove. And then we can just pop that right off with the screws removed. And we will set that off to the side for the time being. 0:53

I am going to start over here on the driver side and go ahead and remove this panel first. We have interior push pins that are holding this panel into place, located right along this rear threshold piece. To release those, we are just going to take a rivet removal tool like the one I have here. If you do not have one of these available, you can use a flat headed screwdriver. You basically want to get behind the panel and release the clips that are in there. You need to remove, not only those but, a couple of the ones on the forward side of the panel as well. And you will notice here on the bottom of the floor there is a tie down point. This may interfere with you pulling the panel back enough to gain access to the ports that we need to. So if that is the case, you want to go ahead and remove this as well. And with the blue plugs removed, you can see the plug in just a little bit easier, located right here. What we want to do is there is a tab just on the top side of the forward connector here. We want to press that in and that is going to allow us to separate the two pieces. 2:07

Next, we want to take our vehicle wiring harness and go ahead and start plugging it inline. Over here on the driver side, we want the ports that contain the yellow and brown wires on them. And again, we are just going to plug them inline. You will notice over here on the driver side as well that we have a white wire with a ring terminal on it. And that is our ground wire. We do need to ground that to a body component here. And if you follow the connector, just to the inboard side here, there is a ground screw located right here. We can go ahead and remove that screw and head our ground wire to there. And after we are finished attaching the converter box, we can go ahead and reinstall the blue plugs. Finally over here on the driver side, we want to go ahead and take our converter box, which you can see we have double sided tape on the back of, and go ahead and inhere it to the inside. And from there we can go ahead and put the panel back on on the driver side. What we want is to make sure we have our yellow and green wires, that are going to be going over to the passenger side connectors, out underneath the panel as well as the 4-pole itself. 3:53

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[yeshua2come]

Thanks for the demonstration. It appears that the only thing really complicated about this will be finding the exact item I will need for an 03. Thanks.

[etrailertv]

@yeshua2come Actually, that doesn't have to be complicated at all. If you visit etrailer(dot)com and enter the year, make, and model of your vehicle into our fitguide, we have all of the custom fit options for your vehicle. Let me know if you have any other questions. I would be glad to help!

[litey3071]

What is the Converter box and what does it do ????

[etrailertv]

@litey3071 Many cars have an extra wire that is for the brake lights, which is one too many for most wiring harnesses.  A converter box takes this extra wire and puts that power into the turn signals, so that they are activated both as turn signals and as brake lights.

[OmGyourVideoSuxDang]

I just got my T-1 Harness for my 96 nissan pathfinder yesterday. I've been sick so havent gotten around to installing it yet..I'm gonna do it this afternoon. Looks pretty simple. Like the guy said, go to etrailer.com and put you vehicle year,make,model in the search box and it'll will give you all parts related to your vehicle that they sale...It's a really nice website...

[yeshua2come]

Outstanding! I got the part and watched the vid and walla! Thanks!