Installing a Hitch & Lighting on a 2008 Frontier

[TWDay]

I just bought a 2008 Frontier SE Super Cab with a manual transmission and the 4L 6cyl engine. I'm planning on towing a very light camper (under 3500 pounds) this winter and just finished installing the hitch. I'm

The problem is that I'm not convinced the wiring harness I got is the right one for my vehicle. It is simply a 4-pin in-line trailer connector at one end and a connector that is supposed to mate up with the "tow connector" on the pickup. I figured out where the tow connector is (just behind the rear spring mount on the driver's side), but I did not figure out how to pry the damn cover off without damaging the connector. No part of that cover seems to want to move.

I suspect my vehicle does not have the necessary relays for the trailer wiring. I've had the pickup for about 3 days, so I'm pretty clueless about where to look for the relays and wiring connectors. Any advice along that line would be massively appreciated.

We spent last winter living in a VW-powered Winnebago (a Rialta) and had about all of the German "engineering," and their sad version of customer service, we could stand after being stranded in the Albuquerque area for more than 2 months wrestling with automatic transmission and computer problems. If I never have to drive another automatic transmission vehicle again, it won't bother me at all. I'm not much of a car guy in the first place, having spent most of my driving time on motorcycles for the last 2-3 decades. So far, my wife and I are really enjoying the pickup, though. It is responsive, powerful, comfortable, and very practical. Plus, the dog likes it. (She hated the Winnebago. The dog, not the wife.)

Thanks for any help or advice you can offer,

Tom Day
St Paul, MN

[BRubble]

Hey Tom,

I installed the hitch and wireing on my '13.

I went with the 7 pin wireing, since the Nissan Hitch has a special bracket for the pigtail. There is a simple adapter that plug's into the 7pin down to a 4 pin.

I got my Wireing kit from Nissan that included the Plug In's inside the Right Side Kick Panel and under the Right side door foot rail too.

I think Nissan has a site that show's how to install the Plug in's and where and how to plug into the wireing harness under the bed.

ETrailer if I remember correctly has a video showing how and where to put the plug in's as well.

It's not hard, but watching the video's helped show me exactly how to do the Wireing and Hitch Install. Sure made it easier than I thought that it would be removeing the Kick Panel Cover and right side door step rail.

It's been about a 1 1/2 year since I did mine,, and don't remember everything exactly, like removeing the Plug insert's on the connector's under the bed.

Good Luck