With up to 3500kgs tow rating the Volkswagon Touareg makes a great tow car but will need to be fitted with an appropriate electric trailer brake controller such as the Tekonsha P3, REDARC Tow Pro Elite or AL-KO sensabrake.
In this install we have fitted the AL-KO IQ7 evo in car kit for the AL-KO Sensabrake system.
We removed the 13 pin euro trailer plug and installed a NZ standard 12 pin trailer socket to the back of the Touareg.
The AL-KO sensabrake mouse controller is discretely mounted below the steering wheel shroud.
A typical install such as this takes about 2.5 hours.
Interestingly, I did 3 installs install of REDARC TOw Pro Elite’s today. One of which was into a 2019 Touareg.
The battery is located under the the drivers feet and in the RHS kick panel there is a loom and a 4 pin plug. My first thought was “Ah, a factory wiring loom for a brake controller”….. which after a quick look ended in disappointment.
There were only 3 wires. A ground, a constant 12volt ( both 5 or 6mm conductors) and a smaller wire which I assumed was a brake light feed. Only it didn’t test as a brake light feed.
I asked know it all google and found that this was more than likely a electric trailer brake controller loom but is missing the”blue” or control wire (which makes the whole thing a bit pointless). The question remains why the third wire didn’t test as a brake light. My guess is that because a trailer wasn’t connected and detected by the car it didn’t activate the wire in the same way it wouldn’t activate the trailer lights ( assuming it was a factory trailer light module which in this case it wasnt, so following that logic perhaps that wire would never work with an after market trailer light module.
So long story short, I had to run a loom to the rear for the install, but in some situations this may not have to be done.
REDARC Tow Pro Touareg control
Touareg Trailer brake loom
Touareg Trailer brake loom1
Touareg Trailer brake loom2
Touareg trailer plug
Touareg AL-KO