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Hey everybody, Ryan here at etrailer. Today on our 2021 Honda Passport, we're gonna be taking a look at and showing you how to install the CURT 7-way vehicle wiring harness. People use these Passports to do a little bit of everything, which does include some relatively heavy towing. You know it makes sense, the hitches available for them are very capable and these are really capable SUV. So people get out on the road a lot pulling around some heavy trailers. And those larger trailers are generally gonna have the 7-way round type connector.
And this is gonna allow you to hook up to that trailer. That way, all your lights work and everything else. You also get your reverse light circuit and your 12 volt auxiliary power as well. So you kinda get everything you need there. And if you ever need to, say maybe pull a smaller trailer or one that has a 4-way flat connector, not a big deal, you can always just grab an adapter like this, which will allow you to plug into the 7-way and then that'll convert it into 4-way flat.
That way, you can still tow the smaller trailers if you ever need to. So at the end of the day, it's just nice to know that your Passport is not gonna be limited to towing only certain types of trailers. With this wiring, you're gonna be able to pull those larger ones and plug into them. And if you ever need to pull a smaller ones, you can always use one of those types of adapters and that'll allow you to do that here as well. A great all around kit that's gonna get the job done.
Now as far as the installation goes, really not too bad. For the most part, it's plug and play, but you do have to take some things apart to route the wires and actually get everything plugged in. So it will take you a little bit of time, but really shouldn't give you a lot of issues. Speaking of which, let's go ahead and do that together now. To begin our install, we're gonna be here at the back of our Passport.
And what we're gonna need to do is locate some factory connectors, which will be inside. And so we'll open up our hatch. And what we're gonna need to do is remove some of our floor coverings. So let's go ahead and grab everything off the floor that we can. We'll just slip the stuff off to the side for the time being. This one we can probably just fold up. That way, we don't have to deal with trying to get that completely removed. So to get these trays out, we're gonna have a couple of latches here. We can just rotate them quarter turn, and we should be able to just lift up on this and move it out of the way. Now, we can go ahead and get the spare out of the way. So we'll rotate this T-handle till it comes out. Eventually we'll get there, here, pull those out and grab the spare and get this out of the way as well. And we might as well get this out of the way too, this foam compartment with tools in there. And so this locked off and we'll be able to remove it. Now on the corner here, towards the back of the vehicle, we're gonna have a push pin type fastener. We need to remove that. You can use a trim panel tool or a flat-head screwdriver to pop that out. We'll be set up the exact same way on the other side, so I went ahead and removed that one as well. So with those removed, you should be able to grab up on our carpeting and kinda work it out from our vehicle and get this out of the way as well. Just over here on the driver's side, we're gonna have a couple of fasteners that we need to remove. If you look at our cargo hook here, we can flip that up. Then there'll be a cover, plastic cover, and you can kinda get a pick or a flat-head screwdriver behind there and pry it up. And what that's going to expose is a Phillips head screw. Now the screws in there are really tight, so you can take the screwdriver and try to turn it, and you might get lucky. If chances are good, you'll probably strip it. But kind of an old trick here, every screwdriver is gonna be a little bit different, but a lot of them will have like the, have a bolt almost right there, or sometimes the handles will allow you to put a wrench, a box wrench over the top of it. And that's a case with this one. So what this is gonna allow you to do is put downward pressure on that screwdriver and turn that wrench, and that's gonna help you break it free. And while you have some extra leverage and by pushing down on it while you're turning that wrench, you're not gonna have to worry about stripping it out. So it's just kind of an old trick there, if you're having trouble with this. We'll go ahead and remove this and set it aside for now. If we continue to move up this pillar here, we're gonna have one more faste