Hi

Ive bought a second hand witter towbar with single electrics, that has previously been fitted, and scotch locked onto the original wiring loom.

Can someone please give me a wiring guide ?.

Where is the best place to bring the wiring into the car, is there a grommet for access or do i need to drill a hole?

Do i need any relays for the electrics, or is it ok just to join the wires.

I have a 51 plate 1.4 fabia hatch 8v

The tow bar is for a bike rack with lighting board, i will not be towing with the car

Hope some one out there has an idiots guide, so i can get this sorted .

Cheers

Darren

Some of the Towbar suppliers have guides -

EC Towbar- Skoda Fabia March 2000-07 from Towsure

Hi

Witter do provide a guide for fitting the bar, but they restrict the wiring instructions for some reason.

I really need someone thats fitted one to their car to do a quick guide on the best way to connect the wiring.

I have heard that skoda do a plug in loom, but the electrics that came with the bar, have got just scotch lock connectors on them, so just need advive to which goes where and if any relays are required

Cheers

Darren

The Skoda kit is very good, I have used one.

Can anyone give me some pointers?

Cheers

Darren

Towbar wiring is pretty generic Darren.

You need brake lights, fog lights, reversing lights, number plate lights, side and tail lights.

It's simply a case of identifying those in the back of your car. With the rear of the light cluster exposed and a multi meter you'll find them.

Can you not just buy a Skoda towing wiring harness on its own - costly maybe but I believe it is just "plug and play" - ie plugs into the rear light clusters. The actual wiring data will be available in the Haynes repair manual and as said already the standard "pin out" of the connector will be available some where on the web.

Darren,

You don't need to do any drilling, there is a large rubber grommet behind the bumper which is the perfect route thru into the boot.

No relays are required for a lighting board.

You'll need to remove both light clusters (these need to come off anyway to take the bumper skin off)

Identify the relevent lamp (switch it on to double check) then trace the printed circuit from that lamp holder to the wiring plug on the cluster and that gives you the colour for that lamps wire. You can then scotchlock into that circuit after removing some of the black tape wrapped around the loom.

I suggest doing most of the connections at the drivers side cluster as the rear fog light will be enabled on that side (some cars only have one rear fog fitted and that is always on the drivers side) You will need to run one cable across the car to the other indicator.

Start to finish it shouldn't take more than a couple of hours, even for a Witter (which admittedly are from the shallow end of the towbar gene-pool) If it were a Brink you'd only need to open the box and watch the bar leap onto the car without any human intervention at all. Plug and play - dontcha just love it??

The bumper skin needs a small cut to clear the bar but don't worry cos it is completely out of sight once the bumper is refitted. Save the big steel beam you need to remove when fitting the bar in case you ever want to revert to no-bar instead of tow-bar.

Good luck - give us a shout if there's anything you get stuck on .

Also, When fitted, Your tow-bar serves a dual purpose:thumbup: , Park distance control v1.0. No annoying beeping, just just stop when you hear the crunch