Regardless of you need to move house, go on holiday with a caravan, dispose of green waste, or have a hitch is pretty handy. In this article, we will show you the electrical connection of a trailer hitch of a Mercury Milan . In truth, even if the installation procedure is not difficult, it is necessary to clarify some points to consider this intervention without any issue. Firstly, we will see what the electrical wiring harness of your motor vehicle hitch contains, then, in a second step, how to make the electrical connection of the hitch of a Mercury Milan .
What’s the wiring harness for a Mercury Milan hitch trailer?
Why do we have to connect a wiring harness with the hitch trailer of a Mercury Milan?
So we will start our content page by explaining the basics of a wiring harness of a Mercury Milan. In order to figure out how it functions, you must already figure out its necessity. If you have a trailer or a caravan to tow, it is essential and earlier all mandatory by the highway code to follow certain requirements, here they are:
- A solid chassis for the trailer…
- Wheels that fit.
- An electrical connection.
- A license plate in plain sight.
- A stoplight repeater.
- A traffic light repeater.
- A blinker repeater.
- License plate illumination.
- A fog light repeater.
In order to meet all the electrical requirements, you will need to install a wiring harness connection on the hitch trailer of your Mercury Milan . We will concentrate on this in this article, if you want to learn how to install the hitch of a Mercury Milan, please see our content page on this subject.
What is the electrical connection of the trailer hitch of a Mercury Milan?
We will now fairly quickly show you how the electrical connection of your hitch functions. The connection uses the 12-volt current from your motor vehicle to power the hitch lights on your Mercury Milan. There are two different systems of electrical connection for a hitch, here they are:
- The 7-pin electric plug for a Mercury Milan trailer, 7 pins : This is the classic plug that will be discovered on all Mercury Milan hitches. This electrical connection will allow you to transmit all the lighting functions needed for the rear signalling of your trailer, you will discover a plug for each objective (left and right indicators, ground, fog light, left and right position light, left and right brake light).
- Electrical connection for caravan with 13-pin plug for Mercury Milan: This plug system is mainly used for caravans that necessitate 12 volts inside to supply the various electrical equipment in the cabin. This type of connection requires the use of an adapter. The extra pins will bring the 12 volt power permanently (to recharge a battery in the caravan) and the 12 volt power in use (to use the 12 volt equipment when the car is switched on).
How do I hook up the wiring harness of a Mercury Milan?
To end this content page, we will fairly quickly show you you how to produce the connection of the wiring harness of your Mercury Milan .
How to make the connection of the wiring harness of an old Mercury Milan?
To mount the wiring harness of an old Mercury Milan, you will have to go and get all the necessary cables in the rear lights of this one. We recommend you to call in a motor vehicle electrician for this intervention because it is difficult, but we will nevertheless summarize the most important steps to be performed:
- Take out the trunk lining from your Mercury Milan to access the rear light unit.
- Identify the wires that correspond to each of the taillight functions.
- Connect them to the lugs on the wiring harness on your hitch.
- Close the whole thing down.
How do you connect the wiring harness of a recent Mercury Milan?
For recent Mercury Milans, the wiring harness is much easier to connect:
- You can use a multiplexable box, you will discover specific ones for your Mercury Milan and universal models. It’s up to you to select according to your budget, know that a universal version costs between 30 and 60 euros.
- Take out the trunk lining from your Mercury Milan so that you can route the cables from your box to the front of your Mercury Milan and connect them to your fuse box.
- Install the case in the trunk properly.
- You don’t have to retrieve your cables from the trunk and connect them to your outlet.
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How do you hook up the power to a trailer on Mercury Milan?
Finally, to end this content page we will fairly quickly show you you how to produce the electrical connection of a caravan on your Mercury Milan . To get this done you will automatically have to go through one of the previous steps, it’s up to you to select the one that means your model and your budget. After you have conducted this, the last step will be to buy an adapter that goes from a 7-pin plug to a 13-pin plug so that you can benefit from the 12 volt current in your caravan. These adapters come at different prices, you will need to count between 15 and 40 euros. All you have to do is plug it into your 7-pin plug.
If you need more tutorials on the Mercury Milan, go to our Mercury Milan category.
