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Vehicle Trailer Wiring Made Simple! Keep your expensive electrical system intact and at peak performance when wiring your vehicle to pull a trailer. Traditional harnesses require you to splice into...
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BoonHauler wrote:NinerBikes wrote:
I'm not real happy with Tekonsha product. Their prodigy RF unit that plugs into the cigarette lighter in my Touareg ended up developing some sort of internal short such that on the way back on a 250 mile trip, the trailer brakes would activate all by themselves, with no input from the brake pedal. Not only did the RF plug in unit in the cigarette lighter short out, it also roasted a $450 J module brake controller in my Touareg, that was $750 to have trouble shot, and replaced. So a $130 remote shorted out and destroyed a $450 VW brake controller part. I am pretty much done with Tekonsha as a result, they denied the problem exists. Anyone that wants to pull my old Prodigy RF apart and see which rheostat shorted out or came loose, let me know.
Niner, sorry but I have to tell you, that's the BEST laugh I've had in a long time!!
I think they're junk to, BTW.
LOL!! LOL!! That was SObest funny!!
My best guess is that one of the rheostats for manual brake to straighten your trailer out if it starts swaying, got hot in the control, and melted the tabs that hold it in place in the proper position, and once hot enough, the plastic distorted in shape, allowing further contact of the rheostat on a hot wire, thereby activating the trailer brakes just like the emergency brake switch would if you press the button, to straighten the trailer out.
