Anyone experienced factory installed brake controllers? I heardthey are weak and don't provide enough juice to strongly activatethe trailer brakes but others say they do work OK. Trailer Lifesays you need to follow the factory instructions in setting them up,true but why then are the folks I talk to saying they still arenot working right. I have a after market and it can squeal the TTtires if I set it that way but factory units are not able to do that. I would prefer as much juice to those brakes as you can get whenin a emergency. I like the way they look on the dash built in butagain there is another difference, they seem to be all mounted onthe left side and I'm right handed not sure how I would like that.Any comments would be appreciated I'm about to buy a suburban witha factory brake control mounted on the left. Dennis B.

I love my factory installed controller. It's connected into the truck's computer system, so it knows exactly what the truck is doing and how much brakeing is being applied and controls the trailer equally.

Mine is great and have had no problems with it. 2015 Ram 2500

mine works fine as well on an F250 on the the right hand side.

Because of the vast number of adjustments possible, most problems seem to be lack of understanding and or lack of correct setup.

donn0128 wrote:Because of the vast number of adjustments possible, most problems seem to be lack of understanding and or lack of correct setup.I'll agree with donn, these don't operate the way the after market ones do. If you're expecting the "tug" from the trailer brakes, you won't get it. The IBC is much smoother and works in concert with the truck brakes. I've never had a problem stopping with them or felt the trailer brakes weren't doing what they should.

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CallMeChris
Explorer
Aug 20, 2016
I have the factory controller in my 16 Ram and love it once I learned to set it up. Factory settings you could turn it all the way up and barely feel the trailer brakes working. Once it was set right I have my gain on around 4.5 and the trailer will stop the truck from rolling just by manually pressing the control like it's supposed to.

Mine is also on the right hand side in the dash.
brirene
Explorer
Aug 20, 2016
donn0128 wrote:
Because of the vast number of adjustments possible, most problems seem to be lack of understanding and or lack of correct setup.

I'll agree with donn, these don't operate the way the after market ones do. If you're expecting the "tug" from the trailer brakes, you won't get it. The IBC is much smoother and works in concert with the truck brakes. I've never had a problem stopping with them or felt the trailer brakes weren't doing what they should.
donn0128
Explorer II
Aug 20, 2016
Because of the vast number of adjustments possible, most problems seem to be lack of understanding and or lack of correct setup.
diazr2
Explorer
Aug 20, 2016
mine works fine as well on an F250 on the the right hand side.
IDman
Explorer
Aug 20, 2016
Mine is great and have had no problems with it. 2015 Ram 2500
Michelle_S
Explorer III
Aug 20, 2016
I love my factory installed controller. It's connected into the truck's computer system, so it knows exactly what the truck is doing and how much brakeing is being applied and controls the trailer equally.

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