THEN, realize you'll need to install a 7 pin connector and brake controller, because this trailer has ELECTROMAGICAL brakes! But before that, test the existing 4 pin connector, because your new one will use that to feed four of the seven pins for your new one!
Title: Re: road hoboism
Post by: Ozmiander on January 12, 2021, 10:40:00 am
Installed the factory style 4flat harness, and ran the power/brake wires from the 7 pin connector at the rear bumper, along the frame and into the engine bay. I'll return to finish and take pics when i can feel my fingers.
Title: Re: road hoboism
Post by: Ozmiander on January 12, 2021, 02:11:13 pm
Got a bunch more shit in the trailer, still need to fit misc junk, and then my gun/ammo safes, but those will be the last things, obviously:
this is just sleeping in a car with extra steps. what is the tent actually doing?
making it so I don't suffocate
I woke up repeatedly during the night when I tried sleeping in my car with headaches and a weird feeling that only went away when I opened the door and got fresh air
presumably from CO2 build up
Title: Re: road hoboism
Post by: Ozmiander on March 15, 2021, 01:00:41 pm
i guess the airflow makes sense, still I don't think this looks water tight in the event it rains
https://www.habitents.com/faq-s/
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3. RAIN The hatchback acts as the "roof" of the Habitents. Rain that sheds down the rear part of the hatch flows down and off the rear bumper. For rain that sheds forward, the Habitents takes advantage of the Prius' built-in gutter system by shedding rain into the gutter between the roof and front of the hatch, on to the gutters on each side and out the back. Seamsealing is not necessary or recommended.
Priuses have built in rain gutters around the hatchback, rain flows from the top of the hatchback into the gutter and onto the ground. I have opened my trunk many times in the rain / snow and it never gets inside the car