Trailer wiring harness for 2000 Tundra

Jeff,

I have the same truck and I too bought an aftermarket hitch. I bought a Hoppy (#43365) trailer wiring harness which just plugged right in ("T" connection) to my stock taillights.

Here it is:

Hope this helps.

John

For what it is worth, most new vehicles wiring may not handle the added load of trailer lights. You could easily overload one of the circuits and burn up your light or turn signal switches or even parts of the wiring harness.

With that being said, I installed a Draw-tite T-One wiring connector on my

2002 Tundra that utilized Toyota's existing wiring harness to send auxiliary power from the battery to a relay adapter included with the kit mounted at the rear of the truck thus taking the majority of the added load off the vehicles wiring harness. Installation was quite simple and easy to do.

Dodge had a similar problem shortly after they released their new Dodge Ram pickups back in the 90's when people would splice directly into the rear light harness for their trailer connectors that it fried the light switch wiring connector so bad that Dodge had to come out with a pig-tail replacement for the dealers to use instead of replacing the complete under-dash wiring harness.

Larry