Curt Manufacturing 56222 Vehicle-Side Custom 4-Pin Trailer Wiring Harness,Fits Select Kia Rondo,Soul ,Black

I installed it myself.... Perfect fit for my 2018 Kia Soul. I have towed my sailboat repeatedly with it. A great hitch assembly and easy to install... by myself.... ok... maybe my brother helped hold it for a minute... Easy and effective...

First off, this is the kit to get. There are others available from different companies but some of them require running a power wire all the way underneath the car. This kit does not so thats a huge plus.Install is super easy with one drawback that keeps this kit from getting a 5 from me. There is not quite enough wire for the passenger side connector to the control unit which mounts behind the drivers side taillight. This limits the wire routing options unless you want to cut the wire and add to it. Another 12 inches of wire and you could run this completely inside the bumper, instead of inside the top bumper lip which you need to given its length. Also because of this MAKE SURE you do not mount the control unit too high on the drivers side, you are going to need every inch of wire available.Other than that with a tiny bit of luck you dont even need to lay on the ground and reach under the car. Well thought out product at a fair price. another 12 inches of wire to expand how you run the side to side connector and this would deserve a 5+ rating.

Lots of people said you have to loosen and pull back the plastic bomber back so you could run that right single wire that comes with the kit to hook up the left side of the car,all I did was stuff that green wire up into my rubber seal that runs around the back of my hatch door and the Green wire was plenty long enough . This wire kits works really good,no problems whatever. Well worth the money.

I installed this on a 2015 Kia Soul today only took me 15 minutes, you remove tail lights and a small black plastic screw below the light and pull back bumper lip and slide it along top behind it and takethe wire that goes to the trailer and run it also along top pulling bumper lip out and half way across and drop it down in middle and it will come out behind tow bar. YouTube videos will have you crawling all under your car installing it. Green wire goes to passenger side of vehicle. Easy install.Thanks.

One star because I paid a premium price for a "Plug and Play" unit specific to my make and model car, and this doesn't come close to being plug and play at all. Although it can be made to work the product is NOT what it says it is, and does not fulfil the function it is sold to do. AKA it's a rip-off.I am a very experienced mechanic. I have worked on cars, boats, motorcycles, bicycles, and homes for many, many years. Everything from just running a new circuit, to installing custom stereo's, to fixing AC, to rebuilding performance engines from scratch. I have a basement full of tools of all sorts.OK so you want to put a trailer hitch on your Soul. The trick to the wiring is that most trailers use a 4 pin flat connector wherein the stop lights and the turn signals are combined; one wire for each side does both the stop lamp and the turn signal for that side. But your Soul (like LOTS of other cars) has separate stop lights and turn signals; one wire does both stop lights, but each turn signal has its own wire. So what you need is a "black box" to convert your separate turn signal and stop light circuit to the combined setup. These things are called "Tail Light Converters" and Amazon sells them as do many others, usually for about 20 bucks.http://www.amazon.com/Valley-32250-Powered-Light-Converter/dp/B001KNS8ZA/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1429822166&sr=8-16&keywords=tail+light+converteris one example. There are many out there from lots of companies and suppliers. But if you don't want the hassle of figuring out which wires go where, and you could buy a unit that just plugs in and works. Wouldn't you spend a little extra to do just that? That is what this unit is supposed to be.This is supposed to be plug-and-play for 2014 2015 Kia Soul base WITH OUT LED tail lights, ( if you have LED tail lights you buy a different unit.) but it doesn't come close. For the price point that is inexcusable.The instructions provided are generic and vague. The do not give important specifics about where to mount components, how best to route the wires, or hints and tricks to make the job go easier and faster. That is OK if you buy a generic kit form J.C. Whitney, but for 50 bucks they ought to do better.There are some on-line video instructions available at You Tube, but not for the 2014 / 2015 Kia Soul and there are some differences from the prior model. So the out-dated on-line videos help a little bit, but again are not specific enough.The module is supposed to mount behind the left tail light, or so it suggests, but exactly how is a bit of a trick. They do say you can mount it other places, but they also say if it isn't protected from weather the warranty is void. So I'm thinking just under the car's bumper isn't exactly protected from weather... Hmmmm.... If they have a place and a way to mount it in mind why not just tell me?OK.. First you need to figure out how to get the tail light out with out breaking it, a trick they do not share. You need a non-marring plastic pry. The sort of thing you use to open an iPod which is commonly called a "spuge".... only bigger. I used a cut off bit of a body-putty spreader and after removing the obvious screws I worked along the outside of the tail light assembly from top to bottom and then back up to the top. A little pry here and a little wedge there and pretty soon it pops out without breaking. If you grab it and pull the way they (sort of ) show a guy doing on their video you WILL break it. DON'T do that! It wouldn't have killed them to show you how to pry it out carefully with a non-marring tool, but they sort of blend that out in a clever screen fade and make it look like you can just grab and yank, which you really can not do without causing it to break.Next you have to fish the wires down behind and through the bumper cover to the back of the bumper mounts. the video for the 2012 Soul shows a nice big hole there in the body work. There is no nice big hole like the video shows. Instead there is a little teeny passage that you cant' see, but if you are patient you can actually fit the necessary end fittings of the wires through. You will want some sort of fish tape or wire or string to make your job easier because from the underside of the car the hole I'm referring to is pretty darn hard to get at.Then you find that the only place the module will fit is pasted alongside the bulb reflectors sideways, tucked behind the factory wiring going to the individual bulbs... which quickly becomes a rat's nest of wires if you doon't thread the unit's wires neatly before you start to pull them through that aforementioned teeny passage. But don't' mount the module just yet because you have more work to do before you can put the tail light assembly back in place.Next you will see that the ground wire for the module you are about to instal requires drilling a hole into your bodywork and screwing in a self tapping screw for the ground. This ground wire from the module is stupidly short, so you don't have a lot of choice about where to drill said hole. Instead I simply spliced a long extension wire onto the module's ground wire so that it too could be fished under the car where I didn't have to drill any new holes but rather could ground to a bit of existing under-car hardware. The proper solution here would have been for the manufacturer to give you a little more wire length on that part and you wouldn't have to drill or splice. Instead for the price of less than a dime's worth of wire you have to decide for yourself if you prefer to drill or to splice.... and while you are pondering that, ponder this: The tail light that is in the car must already have a ground run to it or it wouldn't work... so why does this unit even need a separate ground wire?Next up is running a green wire transversely across the underside of the bumper from the driver's side tail light to the passenger side taillight; fishing it up through that obscure hole, and plugging it into the tail light circuit behind the right hand tail light assembly. Simple but the underside of the 2014 / 2015 Soul doesn't look anything like the prior model in the instructional video, so how you route your wires is up to you.... but wait..... no matter HOW you route your wire it isn't long enough.... by about two feet! Not even close! So it's back to the parts locker, get some green wire, some splices, and extend that sucker. Don't forget to weatherproof your connections with some silicone caulk or liquid electrical tape. The good news is that since you have to cut the green wire anyway you can now fish it down form the RH tail light nacelle instaed of strugling to fish it up through the obscure hole.Finally you can splice the green wire back into its connector inside the RH tail light assembly area.NOW you mount the module to the side face of the inside of the LH tail light assembly and gently ease each tail light back into their places, taking great care not to pinch any wires. There isn't much room.Installation for me took about 2 1/2 hours. A good part of that was figuring out what would work. Then getting the extra wire I needed, the connectors to make splices, fish tape to get stuff to go where I could not easly reach, the tools to strip and crimp the wires, then waiting for the liquid electrical tape to dry. And I had most of that stuff in my basement already.By the time I was finished I wasn't impressed at all and wondered why I hadn't just gotten the $20 tail light converter since I had to splice wires anyway. It really frosts me to pay a fat premium for a specific kit only to find out it is just generic crap with bad instructions that doesn't actually fit my car at all.If you buy this product be prepared to spend more time to install it than they suggest. You will have to do some splicing and possibly drilling. There is no point im making a poor job of it, so plan on taking your time,.... and if you are the sort who isn't afraid to splice and solder, maybe save yourself some money and just get the tail light converter instead.

Took about 15 minutes once everything was laid out, popping the tail lights out were the most difficult thing. I see where the green wire would be short if you ran the line under the bumper-just run it behind or between the bumper cover and the support and there's about 12 inches of slack.Been working fine for about a month now

It works great. But one of the wires (the one that connects the two tail lights) was too short so I had to splice a wire to make it work. Still pleased.

Great

installation facile et rapide sur monnkia soul 2011 👍🏻

Easy to use

Easy installation.... basically plug and play... No splicing, no welding, no drilling...I did not route the trailer connector under the bumper like some websites and professionals would suggest... Simply coiled it under the trunk floor, when in use, it doesn't prevent the hatch from closing and it's long enough to reach my harbour trailer connector.

L'Installation sur une Kia Soul 2016. Très facile à installer. Tout se fait sur la portion arrière du véhicule. Pas nécessaire de fil qui va se connecter sur la batterie. J'ai écouté une vidéo de CURT sur YouTube pour savoir comment faire. Et voilà. Le tout se fait en 30-40 minutes (encore plus rapide pour quelqu'un d'expérience).

Well made, easy to install