For those that want to add the factory trailer brake controller...

[TVANVA]

Ha, your bracket looks pristine compared to mine, which was almost totally covered in surface rust. I should have taken a "before" pic, but a few minutes of sanding/priming/painting and here is mine:

Tag me as OCD (and, yeah, my truck is Blue Streak, so I color matched, kinda), but I'm not putting a rusty anything under my dash even if it just holds the module.

 

[WolfHunter1043]

Have a question for those who have done this or have the brake control in general. I did mine tonight and will have it flashed tomorrow. The only back lights are for the plus and minus button correct? And then regarding those back lights, when I roll my dial up and down the brightness of them changes like you would expect, but when I flip the dial all the way up to full brightness they do not go to Max bright like all the other buttons with the paddles to the right of them. Is this normal behavior?

For those that haven't done this and are debating that, it really is easy and I would prefer to do it myself so I know it was done right and not too rough. I went the old-fashioned method and grab the top of the bezel by the tray for the display and pulled back hard one solid time and it came right off. One of the plastic Clips was stuck in the hole so I had to get it out of the hole and put it back on the display but beyond that it was a perfect process. These plastic Clips are much better than the old metal ones that were not very forgiving.

 

[AndreiV]

I just got all parts for kit from Mopar America, it took about a week. Mounting bracket came with no rust on it. Now I need to find time and read forum again on the installation tips.

 

[deanfx]

I just got all parts for kit from Mopar America, it took about a week. Mounting bracket came with no rust on it. Now I need to find time and read forum again on the installation tips.

Did you order the kit or piece it together with part numbers? Was the kit part number 82215278AD?

 

[Ickabod]

Did you order the kit or piece it together with part numbers? Was the kit part number 82215278AD?

I just got my parts from mopar america yesterday. I will be putting this in tomorrow. I ordered the parts separately.

 

[AndreiV]

Did you order the kit or piece it together with part numbers? Was the kit part number 82215278AD?

I ordered all piece parts provided on forum.

 

[deanfx]

I ordered all piece parts provided on forum.

It's a lot cheaper ordering by the piece as well. Crazy

 

[deanfx]

Well mopar america is out of stock. So is every other online seller. I ended up finding a kit on GA and had to pay full retail for the parts. $402 bucks shipped. I feel like I've been price duped.

 

[Ickabod]

Installed mine today. About 45 minutes. The bracket install was the hardest part due to accessibility, but not too bad. Here are some pics.

The wires are bundled up under the dash. You have to unwrap them and pull them down to install them in the module.


The bracket gets installed behind the dash.


Another angle of the bracket.


And with the module installed.

 

[AndreiV]

I start doing the install and found GPS tracking device from stealer.

 

[deanfx]

I start doing the install and found GPS tracking device from stealer.

Did you leave it?

 

[AndreiV]

Did you leave it?

It does not really matter for me, my truck is paid off. I took it off anyway, will see if I could use it somehow in the future as a tracker.

 

[AndreiV]

Any tips on how to remove blank switch? Everything else was easy but struggling to remove blank switch without damaging clips that will be reused. What is a trick here?

 

[AndreiV]

Any tips on how to remove blank switch? Everything else was easy but struggling to remove blank switch without damaging clips that will be reused. What is a trick here?

Ok I got it!

 

[Ickabod]

Ok I got it!

Yeah, I had to pry up the tabs, then push on the bottom until it came out.

 

[AndreiV]

Any ideas: if sales code not added by stealer will brake controller not function all together? Or will function but without displaying it's features in Uconnect?

 

[WolfHunter1043]

Have a question for those who have done this or have the brake control in general. I did mine tonight and will have it flashed tomorrow. The only back lights are for the plus and minus button correct? And then regarding those back lights, when I roll my dial up and down the brightness of them changes like you would expect, but when I flip the dial all the way up to full brightness they do not go to Max bright like all the other buttons with the paddles to the right of them. Is this normal behavior?

For those that haven't done this and are debating that, it really is easy and I would prefer to do it myself so I know it was done right and not too rough. I went the old-fashioned method and grab the top of the bezel by the tray for the display and pulled back hard one solid time and it came right off. One of the plastic Clips was stuck in the hole so I had to get it out of the hole and put it back on the display but beyond that it was a perfect process. These plastic Clips are much better than the old metal ones that were not very forgiving.

Can anyone please check theirs?

 

[Ickabod]

Can anyone please check theirs?

I don't have my trailer yet, so I can't test it before and after the sales code is added.

 

[AndreiV]

Any ideas: if sales code not added by stealer will brake controller not function all together? Or will function but without displaying it's features in Uconnect?

So I bought 7-pin tester of Amazon, $8 and a change and tested Brake Controller without SW flash. As far as voltages everything works on the 7-pin end, manual trailer lever works as well. Just missing cluster and uconnect functions without SW flash.

 

[KeithDewey]

same line of question - if I install with no SW flash, how easy is it to calibrate/adjust the controller without the dash readouts? How can you determine the gain setting for your trailer?