The GoWesty kit is designed to accommodate the European style setup on the
vanagon and operate the US style light setup on your trailer. There is a
black something-or-other potted on the wiring that you screw somewhere on
the Vanagon's sheet metal. It works great.

Jim

On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Scott Ohana <scottdaniel@turbovans.com>wrote:

> The first thing to consider is ...........
>
> most trailers use the 'two ffilament' system. ( 'melican cars do too
> generally )
>
> vanagons use 3 ..one for tail, one for brake, one for turnsignals.
>
> on a two filament system ...there's only tail light.
> and brake/turn signal , two filaments total per side.
>
> there are adapter gizmo's to interace the two different systems.
>
>
>
>
> On 7/22/2013 12:18 PM, Troy wrote:
>
>> Hi folks:
>>
>> I need to wire the van for a trailer and wanted to ask if anyone had
>> words
>> of wisdom for doing this. Go Westy sent me documentation telling me what
>> color wire does what, so I'm more concerned about the routing of the
>> wires
>> and connections. Not sure if it's better to splice in to an existing
>> wire or
>> if it's possible to solder on the connections on the back of the
>> lenses. I
>> have not taken anything apart, so not sure what I'm up against.
>>
>> Many thanks!
>>
>> Troy
>>
>>