trailer wiring harness on a non towing package truck?

i have a 2010 toyota tacoma prerunner sr5 with the v6. i didnt buy the towing package. does it still have wiring? its too dark for me to go look right now...

 

any idea how much they cost? where does it plug in?

 

awesome. thanks

 

I'd put an aftermarket one on a previous truck, it was plug & play. Very simple.

 

I bought one at Autozone, all I had to do was take the tail lights off and plug in the harness and string it up in the bumper....very very easy. I think it was the Hoppy kit and it was about $50.

http://www.suspensionconnection.com/cgi-bin/suscon/7281T.html

 

Why is that, Chris?

I've been using an aftermarket harness mounted in the tail lights that works great and is a hundred times easier to install than the oem.

 

If all you are looking for is a 4 pin wiring harness I'd just pick up one of the aforementioned aftermarket kits. I have one from etrailer.com and it was easy to install and works well.

 

And people have had issues with the aftermarket ones, if they have a high current draw from many lights or whatever. It's like buying a Toyota, and putting Yugo wiring in it.

 

Again, I think this is just an issue of what you're planning on doing. If you have a ton of lights, obviously you're going to want the OEM that has a dedicated circuit. I recently bought an aftermarket Curt harness from eTrailer, and right on the back of the box I think it says it's only rated for one light per each side that's a certain size and pulls a certain voltage, so (without reading or hearing about those problems, mind you) it might just be a case of someone not realizing that they don't have the proper equipment for what they need to do.

 

I priced a plug here in elko and the dealer wants over $200.00 for harness any ideals were i can fined a better price?

 

A way around overloading the existing light harness and fuses is to get the aftermarket ones that have a dedicated power connection to the battery. They just take the signal from the existing harness and get the power for the trailer's lights from the battery. A fancy relay if you will.
Of course that does mean you have to run a wire to a power source but that's not such a big deal.