Ready Brake Elite System and Brake Lights
Getting ready to pick out and install the towing system for my 2013 Honda CR-V. Have been looking at the Ready Brake Elite setup and Blue Ox baseplate. Question: When the brake system activates do ...
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Dennis,
If I'm reading your answer right, I'm not sure you're answering the OP correctly. I certainly could be wrong here (imagine that)but, I think he's asking if the toads brake pedal, when applied by the Ready Brake, will activate the CRVs brake lights. If that's his question, that would be something he'd have to check for sure, on his car, to make certain they are, or are not, activated by the CRV brake pedal with the key in the "Off" position.
Some cars activate the brake lights with the key off and some don't. I used to think all of them did but, that theory went down the tubes fast. All of my 7 Jeeps I towed activated the jeeps tail lights if, there was an auxiliary braking system in the Jeep when we towed it. Most of the time, way back then, I had no braking system when I towed all of them.
But, our present toad, an '11 GMC Sierra 1500 Extended Cab 4x4, does NOT activate the brake lights with our Ready Brake when the key is off. So, that made it really nice for wiring it up to use the stock tail lights as toad lights when towing. Not sure if any of this helps the OP or not. Good luck.
Scott
If I'm reading your answer right, I'm not sure you're answering the OP correctly. I certainly could be wrong here (imagine that)but, I think he's asking if the toads brake pedal, when applied by the Ready Brake, will activate the CRVs brake lights. If that's his question, that would be something he'd have to check for sure, on his car, to make certain they are, or are not, activated by the CRV brake pedal with the key in the "Off" position.
Some cars activate the brake lights with the key off and some don't. I used to think all of them did but, that theory went down the tubes fast. All of my 7 Jeeps I towed activated the jeeps tail lights if, there was an auxiliary braking system in the Jeep when we towed it. Most of the time, way back then, I had no braking system when I towed all of them.
But, our present toad, an '11 GMC Sierra 1500 Extended Cab 4x4, does NOT activate the brake lights with our Ready Brake when the key is off. So, that made it really nice for wiring it up to use the stock tail lights as toad lights when towing. Not sure if any of this helps the OP or not. Good luck.
Scott
