Wireless toad lights

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.

Hudsoner wrote:
To bring this thread back to life, I have a question, and you might be able to answer it! I cannot tap into the wiring of my toad, because the computers in it will play mad, if they discover anything that is not supposed to be there (CAN Bus controlled)
I just bought a tow dolly that has it's own lights. Doing some research, I found that this is not enough in many states, because my vehicle will be at least four feet behind the lights, and thus requires it's own lights.
The easiest way to achieve this would be a set of the magnetic lights on the back of the vehicle.
I searched Amazon and found that I can get lights for a price between $20 and $300. reading through the ratings, I found that many lights, regardless of their price, have a magnetic base that seems not to be strong enough, and tend to be blown of the toad.
Do you guys have any experience with magnetic tow lights and can recommend some that stay on the vehicle and not get blow to the ground once the setup is moving?

Any advise and information is really welcome!

I have used magnetic tow lights for years, yes the cheap ones will blow off sometimes. The more moderate priced units tend to have stronger magnets. You need units with a 60lbs pull rating or more for the magnets.

Hudsoner wrote:
To bring this thread back to life, I have a question, and you might be able to answer it! I cannot tap into the wiring of my toad, because the computers in it will play mad, if they discover anything that is not supposed to be there (CAN Bus controlled)
I just bought a tow dolly that has it's own lights. Doing some research, I found that this is not enough in many states, because my vehicle will be at least four feet behind the lights, and thus requires it's own lights.
The easiest way to achieve this would be a set of the magnetic lights on the back of the vehicle.
I searched Amazon and found that I can get lights for a price between $20 and $300. reading through the ratings, I found that many lights, regardless of their price, have a magnetic base that seems not to be strong enough, and tend to be blown of the toad.
Do you guys have any experience with magnetic tow lights and can recommend some that stay on the vehicle and not get blow to the ground once the setup is moving?

Any advise and information is really welcome!

This is what I use: Wireless Tow Lights

The light has 100 pound rubber coated magnets. Works great.

To bring this thread back to life, I have a question, and you might be able to answer it! I cannot tap into the wiring of my toad, because the computers in it will play mad, if they discover anything that is not supposed to be there (CAN Bus controlled)
I just bought a tow dolly that has it's own lights. Doing some research, I found that this is not enough in many states, because my vehicle will be at least four feet behind the lights, and thus requires it's own lights.
The easiest way to achieve this would be a set of the magnetic lights on the back of the vehicle.
I searched Amazon and found that I can get lights for a price between $20 and $300. reading through the ratings, I found that many lights, regardless of their price, have a magnetic base that seems not to be strong enough, and tend to be blown of the toad.
Do you guys have any experience with magnetic tow lights and can recommend some that stay on the vehicle and not get blow to the ground once the setup is moving?

Any advise and information is really welcome!

I would say there is definitely faulty wiring somewhere - however if budget permits... Wireless lights are great.

I considered the wireless lights, but as you can see from the link somebody already posted, they aren't cheap. The ones in the above link are $395. Many of them seemed to have a long enough battery life for towing, but if you forgot to charge them you may find yourself without working lights.

"C20".....I agree, I think you're being given some bad info. When you add a diode, it just sends power to the taillight from another power source. It can't feedback to the truck and shouldn't affect the truck wiring.

Another option, you can also add a bulb to the taillight lens if there is room. This way, the bulb is powered directly from your coach and still uses one plug at the front of the truck.

Thanks, i'll check that out. On all the other toads I had just put a plug at the front and plugged it into the RV and good to go. This seems to be a PITA! lol. I have to call them anyway about an issue I'm having with my braking system, so Monday i'm on it! Appreciate it

This is what I use:Tow Mate Wireless Tow Lights

I would call Roadmaster and check with their engineer.
Installing the diodes at the tailights should not effect the lamp outage system. It has not effected any of my vehicles.