aftermath wrote:
I will try to answer your questions.
First, yes you can move your old controller to your new TV. I did just that not long ago.
Secondly, using the integrated brake controller that comes with most new trucks today really makes things easier provided that it is a good controller. You will not have your old one sitting below the dash somewhere where it usually hits your knee.
All that said, I recently purchased a new Tundra and it came with an integrated controller. I hooked it up and quickly found that I didn’t like it. I could not get it “dialed in” and either my trailer brakes were locking up or appeared not to be working very well. I have towed my current trailer over 45,000 miles and it wasn’t responding the way it had when using my Prodigy 2. I asked and found out the Toyota, while making a great truck, was putting a timed controller in instead of a proportional controller like most of the other companies were using. I found an accessory that allowed me to move my old controller to my new Tundra and I was able to mount in it the dash. Things are good once again.
So, yes you can use your old controller. The integrated ones are much more convenient and very easy to use. Just make sure it is a proportional controller. Toyota never answered my direct question but did say that they used “solid state” controllers. As far as I know, that just means that it was a timed, not proportional, controller.
That's rather disapointing of Toyota. To use a proportional controller means to me that they have no experience towing at all and don't take it very seriously.
BTW, "solid state" just means there arent any tubes in it. :S
