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Hey guys, it's Jake here with etrailer. Today, we have a 2022 Chevrolet Colorado and we're gonna be taking a look at and I'm gonna show you how to install the Blue Ox Diode Wiring Kit. There's gonna be five main components to flat towing your vehicle behind your RV. The first is gonna be your base plate, which is going to attach to our vehicle. Next is going to be our tow bar, which is going to attach the RV to the vehicle so it can pull it safely down the road. Next is gonna be your braking system, which is going to allow the vehicle to brake on its own as the RV is stopping itself.

Next up is our diode wiring to send signals safely from the RV to the towed vehicle so that you can let others know what your intentions are on the road. And lastly are gonna be your safety cables. Your safety cables are there in the case of a unlikely disconnect. Your vehicle won't travel down the road. It'll stay safely behind your RV so you can get pulled over and get the situation handled.

What this gets designed to do is it's designed to take the signals from your motor home and transfer 'em to the lights on the back of your vehicle. Much like towing a trailer, you want others to know what your intentions are, so that's what it does. It takes the signals from the taillights. If you want to take a left turn, it'll signal the left rear taillight on your vehicle so that others know what your intentions are when you're driving down the road. If you have to have 'em on a trailer, you're gonna have to have 'em when you're towing a truck behind your motor home.

The diodes in the kit are designed to protect the lights on your vehicle and on your motor home. If you we're to have an issue on your vehicle with the wiring, it's not going to fry the lights on your RV and vice versa. Once you install this kit, you're never gonna see any of the components that you've installed. You could practically sell the vehicle just like this and people wouldn't even know the system's in there. The other kits that we have, you're gonna have to, typically with the magnetic kits, you're gonna have to drape a wire from the back of your motor home over your tow bar up over top of your vehicle.

And what we would like to see is to get those magnetic lights as far back as possible, which means on a truck, you're gonna have to put 'em back here on the side of it, which is not ideal either. The other thing with that is that if you have a cord draped over top and you've got any little bit of dirt on top of your vehicle, that cord is gonna cause tons and tons of micro scratches on top. Plus, you have to do that every single time you want to tow your vehicle behind your RV. And to me, that's really annoying. I like to just plug and go. And that's exactly what this system's gonna do. You connect your six pole from your RV to the front of your Colorado and that's all you need. You can turn your lights on and your Colorado's gonna receive that signal. The convenience part of this kit is gonna be the biggest seller for me. The fact that you can just take a seven pole plug to a six pole plug on the front of your Colorado that you will have to install is the most important thing to me. I don't want to have to mess with draping any wires or having to store that magnetic light kit somewhere, hope I don't lose it, or if it burns out, what have you. If I know my vehicle lights are working properly, then I know I'm gonna have lights to be able to transfer back. Now as far as the installation goes, you will have to run a four pole wire from the front of your vehicle all the way to the back. That's not a huge deal. That's probably the easiest part of the installation. We'll show you how we did it and the route that we took. It's very clean. You follow factory wiring back, zip tie it off to it, and you won't see it again. As far as connecting it to other components is with the base plate, it'll depend on what kind of base plate you have. We have the etrailer base plate, so it comes with a bracket that you'll mount the six pole into. And then the braking system. If you have a portable braking system, you're not gonna have to worry about splicing into the wires at all. You'll run it from the six pole straight back to the back of your vehicle and you won't have to wire anything else. If you do something li