If 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 explain the electrical connection of a trailer hitch of a Renualt Express . In fact, even if the installation procedure is not difficult, it is required to explain some details to consider this task without any problem. Firstly, we will find out what the electrical wiring harness of your motor vehicle hitch involves, then, in a second step, how to make the electrical connection of the hitch of a Renualt Express .
What’s the wiring harness for a Renualt Express hitch trailer?
Why do we have to connect a wiring harness with the hitch trailer of a Renualt Express?
So we will start our content page by explaining the fundamentals of a wiring harness of a Renualt Express. In order to discover how it functions, you must already discover its necessity. Whether you have a trailer or a caravan to tow, it is important and above all mandatory by the highway code to respect certain protocols, 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 satisfy all the electrical requirements, you will need to install a wiring harness connection on the hitch trailer of your Renualt Express . We will focus on this in this post, if you want to find out how to install the hitch of a Renualt Express, please find out our content page on this theme.
What is the electrical connection of the trailer hitch of a Renualt Express?
We will now fairly quickly explain 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 Renualt Express. There are two different systems of electrical connection for a hitch, here they are:
- The 7-pin electric plug for a Renualt Express trailer, 7 pins : This is the classic plug that will be determined on all Renualt Express hitches. This electrical connection will enable you to transmit all the lighting functions needed for the rear signalling of your trailer, you will locate 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 Renualt Express: This plug system is principally used for caravans that involve 12 volts inside to supply the various electrical gear in the cabin. This type of connection needs 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 motor vehicle is switched on).
How do I hook up the wiring harness of a Renualt Express?
To finish this content page, we will fairly quickly explain you how to produce the connection of the wiring harness of your Renualt Express .
How to make the connection of the wiring harness of an old Renualt Express?
To install the wiring harness of an old Renualt Express, you will have to go and get all the required cables in the rear lights of this one. We recommend you to call in a motor vehicle electrician to do this intervention because it is difficult, but we will nevertheless summarize the main steps to be performed:
- Take out the trunk lining from your Renualt Express to access the rear light unit.
- Locate 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 Renualt Express?
For recent Renualt Expresss, the wiring harness is much simpler to connect:
- You can use a multiplexable box, you will locate particular ones for your Renualt Express 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 Renualt Express so that you can route the cables from your box to the front of your Renualt Express and connect them to your fuse box.
- Install the case in the trunk effectively.
- 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 Renualt Express?
Finally, to finish this content page we will fairly quickly explain you how to produce the electrical connection of a caravan on your Renualt Express . 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 corresponds to your model and your budget. After you have done 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.
Whenever you have any further questions about the Renualt Express, do not hesitate to consult our Renualt Express category.
