Odyssey has been produced by the Honda Motor Company since 1994. All Odysseys are delivered with a manufacturing unit-fitted flat four-pin hitch installed adjacent to the tow package. A flat four-pin hitch is appropriate for use only with small, lightweight trailers; for extra substantial hundreds a round seven-pin hitch must be installed. The extra three wires convey signal from an electronic brake controller, an auxiliary often used for reversing lights and a 12-volt hot supply.
Honda Odyssey Trailer Wiring Installation Instructions
1. Insert your fingers beneath the hard plastic kick panel on the left of the driver’s footwell; draw the panel upward and outward. Use the identical method to remove the step panels beneath each the driving force’s door and the rear sliding door. Lift the spare wheel out of its nicely, and remove the cover from the jack storage area.
2. Run a 10-gauge blue wire from the brake controller wiring harness down the uncovered left-hand-aspect of the driver’s footwell to ground level. Route it through the uncovered channel beneath the driving force’s door, slip it beneath the carpet on the “B”-pillar, then continue alongside the channel beneath the sliding door. Route the wire through the spare wheel nicely into the jack storage area.
3. Establish the trailer light management module, a black field approximately 3-inches by 1-inch by 1/2-inch deep, secured to the Odyssey’s body above the jack. Observe the wires emerging from the module’s right side to where they move outside the car through a grommet. Route the brand new brake controller wire via this gap alongside the pre-present wires.
4. Find the top of the brand new wire outdoors the Odyssey by reaching up between the bumper and the splash guard. Pull the wire by the grommet until there is enough length outside to succeed in the trailer hitch.
5. Route a 10-gauge black wire from the constructive terminal of the battery down by way of the engine bay and along a chassis frame rail to the location of the trailer hitch. Use a plastic zip tie roughly every foot to secure the wire. Fit a 30-amp inline fuse holder within 6-inches of the battery pole, however do not set up the fuse.
6. Use wire cutters to cut the flat 4-pin hitch off its 4 wires as close to the top as possible. Join these and the new wires to a round seven-pin hitch as follows: white wire to terminal one, blue wire to terminal two, brown wire to terminal three, black wire to terminal four, yellow wire to terminal five and inexperienced wire to terminal six. If making an auxiliary connection, use 14-gauge purple wire and join it to terminal seven.
7. Replace the interior trim panels, the spare wheel and the jack cover by reversing the elimination sequence. Install the 30-amp fuse.