Wireless toad lights

tropical36 wrote:

Hudsoner wrote:

tropical36 wrote:

C20 wrote:
Anyone have the wireless toad lights? I bought a new toad and they can't wire into the wiring harness without causing a lamp out light on the dash. So I bought the LED magnetic lights, and ran a wire under the toad to plug into the coach. This means I have to plug in two different plugs to get the lights to work, one into the coach and one at the rear of the toad to make the magnetic lights work.

Just wondering if anyone has experience with the wireless ones, and if that might me easier.

Thanks all!

My favorite method if there isn't an un-intrusive harness available, like the COOLTECH for our Wrangler, is for a stand alone system. What you do is to first put a hitch receiver on the car, if one isn't already available. Then make up a light bar from angle iron and for pinning it, in the receiver, like you would a bike rack or other. In fact, the right bike rack might work. Now you install a plug and outlet and take your wiring down under and to the front for wiring it into your installed, umbilical cord outlet, on the toad's front somewhere.
We did this once, on a vehicle that already had a hitch receiver and a wiring connector for it, so even if you didn't want to remove the bar when not towing and being that we wired it the same, you could just plug it in and have the extra lighting back there. In this case we used a hitch haul, instead of a bar and it doubled as a carrier and bike rack, as well. At any rate, there is no connection whatsoever to the toad lights, themselves.

I was thinking along the same lines. My SUV has a hitch installed already. I planned to use a cheap ball mount, weld some length of angle iron onto it, and attach normal trailer lights to the end of the iron, and run the wires underneath the car to the front. Probably even splice into the dolly wiring and install a flat connector on the dolly.

You may want to install a lic. plate bracket as well on one side, with the proper tail light for that purpose. Now you're all ready to go, if you decide on towing four down, at some point, so think ahead for that and whereas you can go from dolly to a direct hookup, with no mods.

I do not plan to go back to 4 down towing. I did that before I changed my car and bought this dolly. 4 down is just way to restrictive for the vehicles one can buy. I used to have a Subaru Outback with a manual transmission (2013 was the last year the sold it), but now one has to take either a Fiat (called Jeep in the US), or one of the really small other vehicles. I have a 100 lb ++ dog to haul around, I need a vehicle that has a decent size. If Subaru would have continued selling the manual in the US (they do it in the rest of the world), I would have stayed with flat towing.