Re: Best place to install a brake controller?
Do3,
I'm posting a few links I had saved off from my install when I was researching that might be helpful for you below. Some of these are for the P3, but I found them helpful (even though I bought a prodigy myself).
Prodigy Brake Controller w/ connector install
P3 Install, Where did you cut?
installing a trailer brake controller
Tekonsha P3 Install in Crewmax
My wife, brother-in-law and I looked at putting ours in both the area you're considering and the spot pictured below and found the one where we ended up easier from a dash-removal & wiring stretch perspective. IMO its also more convenient to reach when you're driving which is an important factor for a brake controller.
We had to dremel a half-dime-sized area of the trim where it's installed (on the back side) to make sure the slider at the bottom wasn't constrained which we could have avoided if we wanted it to stick out a bit more. It fights tightly in the installed area and we were able to use side mounting screws that came with the Prodigy to secure it in the trim box when popped out of the dash.
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Last edited by DaveGS4; 07-16-2009 at 11:36 AM.
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