Today our 2010 volkswagen routan will be installing part number one one eight four nine zero the t1 vehicle wiring harness with 4-pole flat trailer connector now let’s send it down to Jarrett and have him get started go ahead and take our t30 torx pit drive and remove the two fasteners located on the driver’s side go and pull the taillight assembly out and back locate the manufacturer harness and disconnect it you’ll need to pull out on the safety tab first then depress the black pin in the center once you do so you’ll be able to pull the manufacturer and wiring harness straight off now we’re going to set our taillight assembly off to the side for installation later now we will take our t1 connector we’ll go ahead and plug our wiring harness with the male end into the female end of the manufacturer harness and this will be the side that has the yellow and brown on it going to the driver’s side now that we have that connection mate we’ll go ahead and drop down our green wire that’s going to go over to our passenger’s side as well as our 4-pole connection since it’s connected to it well simply slide this down in between the side of the bumper fascia and the body panel coming out the bottom end if it helps you can also unravel it and remove the rubber band first once you have it out the bottom will go ahead and pull it through now we’ll go ahead and make our connection for our ground wire it’s gonna be that white wire with the ring on the end find a good place in the body panel to go ahead and screw it in once you have that nice and secure we’ll go ahead and get our driver side taillight assembly and put it back in place then press in the t1 connector and then the locking tab place in the alignment tabs here and line them up making sure that the plastic side over here goes on the other side of the body panel once you have it in place go and press them in then we’ll go ahead and reattach the t30 Torx bit screws that we unfasten to remove the tail light assembly once we have that reattached we’ll go over to the passenger’s side and remove that taillight assembly we’ll set those off to the side remember to pull straight back on the taillight assembly to pop it out of the alignment tabs once you have it popped out again remove the safety clip or pull it back here in the center if you need a small tool you can use one if you need some if you pull it all the way out make sure that you always replace this once you’re done press it on
the tab in the center it pulls straight out now we’ll go ahead and take an airline or an extra piece of wire or something that you may have laying around and go ahead and fish it down to where it comes out the bottom side or bottom panel that’s gonna be in between the bumper fascia and molding here and the body panel just like we drop the wires down on the other side we’re gonna drop this down and once you have that coming out the bottom we’re gonna just tape it off to the top that way we ensure that it doesn’t fall through now we will take our green wire with the t connection from the driver’s side behind the plastic panel and go over the top of the bumper mounts and fascia mounts here on the back side making sure that we keep our wire clear of any abrasive edges so it doesn’t get cut and any heat source so it doesn’t melt now we will go ahead and connect our green wire with the white wire to our pole wire isn’t some electrical tape so we can pull it up between the body panel and the fascia on the side go ahead and remove the tape from the top of the pole wire where you just placed it on there to hold it up then pull our wires up between the body panel make sure that they don’t get caught when you first start out once you have your wires through the top will go down to the bottom side and pull them through gradually making sure that all of our wires get tucked away away from the exhaustion in the abrasive area we will then go ahead and remove our pull wire and let the wire hang now we’ll go ahead and place in the mail into the female in like we did on the other side once we have it in we’ll replace the factory locking tab just like so making sure it’s all together nice and snug and then we will wrap up the excess wire and tape it off once you have it taped off nice and neat set this down on the inside and place back on our factory passenger side tail light placing the female and male connector together press it in press the locking tab line up your alignment tabs press it in until it clicks and then we’ll place back in the torque bit fasteners with our passenger side torque bit faster is back in place well now close down the hatch and go underneath to tidy up all of our wires and with the provided zip ties in our kit now the zip tie is provided in the kit may be a little short to do on the over the bracket here but there are plenty of spots where you can use them we’re gonna go ahead and use a little bit longer ones
just give us a little cleaner look now I’ll go ahead and hook up our ground to our ground wire and to test our wires out now I’ll go ahead and check our ground wire for running lights and we’ll check our yellow wire for left turn green wire for right turn and our brake lights looks good now it looks like Jared’s all finished up and that’s going to complete our install of part number one one eight four nine zero the t1 vehicle wiring harness on our 2010 volkswagen routan
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