Mini Trailer Owners

[pwm]

I'm looking to purchase a Mini Trailer from our sponsor http://minitrailerusa.com/ and wanted to know what I need to do to my 2012 RT to get the 4 pin pig tail to wire in? I have not purchased my hitch yet but plan on doing so and wondered if there was an adapter that would plug into the BRP plug?

 

[captblack]

I have one like that that I pull with my 2011 RT. If you get the BRP hitch, it comes with the tail light adapter and you will have a plug on the underside of your left fender. What I did was get this - P/N 710002442 Pole harness. Then I removed the square connector on the harness and installed a standard 4 pin trailer plug to match up with the trailer connector. The pole harness attaches to the connector on the bike (round plug).

Here is a thread about it ... http://www.spyderlovers.com/forums/showthread.php?32544-Trailer-Plug-Adapter-The-Saga-Continues

 

[Copperman]

I'm a new Mini Trailer owner.

I just recently bought a Nomad from Mini Trailer, USA and really like it. I have the 2013 trailer hitch with the square, four pin plug and made an 18" jumper for it.

I bought the male end of a square, four pin and the female end of the flat, four pin and joined them. Cost less than ten dollars. This way, I have my hitch plug installed just under my left bag where it normally goes and didn't have to alter it. I use zip ties to hold the jumper in place when I'm towing my trailer and cut them off when when I'm done.

Be sure to test the jumper before you secure the connections. The color coded wires didn't match the first time I put them together.

 

[NancysToy]

The BRP hitches come with a wiring harness. The hitch/harness available now has a square-4 connector. If your trailer is 4-wire, you need merely change the connector on the trailer to match, or splice in a matching square-4 connector. You could also build an adapter from parts available at your local big box store, trailer shop, or RV dealer...but why bother? If the trailer is 5-wire you would have to modify the trailer lighting to a 4-wire system, or wire a pigtail directly to the Spyder lighting system, bypassing the BRP trailer module.

 

[Larry rt]

How do you bypass module ?

 

[NancysToy]

How do you bypass module ?

You would have to splice a 5-wire pigtail directly into the Spyder's lighting system. It would not matter whether or not a module was installed. I don't recommend this approach, but it has been done successfully. It is better to modify the trailer to 4-wire and/or use an isolator like the BRP system.