Ford WindstarIntroduced in the mid-1990s, the front-wheel-drive Ford Windstar minivan campaigned with an emphasis on, and reputation for, safety. And in the hotly contested family minivan market of the time, that was an especially solid piece of ground to be on. As long as buyers didn't need to haul adults in back on a regular basis, the Windstar served a family's needs just fine.
Thanks again for the diagram, TB. I just bought a tiny trailer that needed work on the lights, and rather than make the polarity switcher, I bought a temporary setup of magnetic mount lights with pre-wired harness. The ground is isolated on it, so I ran wires direct from the lights. I don't have turn signals on it, of course, but that shouldn't be a problem, as it is a low trailer.
I finished the wiring of the positive to negative switching system. I found the pig tail finally, but it was not where everybody said to look. Mine was next to the jack on the passenger's side compartment behind the wheel well. That's were I placed all the relays and installed a rocker switch thru the access panel.
I confirmed my 99 Windstar has towing package with the dipstick test, but I too, am having a lot of trouble finding the pigtail. Is it an acutal dead ended connector or connects using a t-connector? Have a pic of what you found?
Hi. I'm new to the forum and have been looking at this trailer lighting stuff. I need to hook up the lights on my 2000 Windstar. Dip stick seems to have the right numbers for the tow package. Looked behind the jack for a connector and found 14 wires coming out of a bundle. All the wires had a butt splice connector on them and they were sealed up in some kind of sticky black insulating stuff. Gonna try and post a picture and see if someone can tell me if these are some of the wires that I'm looking for to hook up the trailer lights.
I also have a 2000 and according to the dipstick have the tow package. No connector in the jack storage area but I too found the wad of electrical tape. The colors look right for a 7 wire connector and I assume a converter in necessary. I just put my hitch on last week and and have been researching the wiring when I found this site, Great Info! I will be building a relay converter and will mount it in a Radio Shack parts box in the jack storage area. I also like the idea of being able to switch it off when I don't need it. My 2000 has a cigarette plug right next to the jack storage and I hope to get the 12 volts from there and avoid running a wire to the battery, has anyone else tried this? This is my 2nd Windstar, the first was a 95 with the 3.0 motor. Tranny went out at 95,000 in 2005 and I picked up this one then.
Even though I don't know what those 14 wires are for it's nice to know that someone else has them also. I believe that I will go the relay route also and look into the idea of using that power receptacle wiring for the supply. Thanks for that idea.
Pull out the dipstick for the transmission fluid. If it says, "XF2P-BA" it has the towing package. If it says, "F88P-BA" it doesn't have the towing package.
I do not know if anyone is still around but I have 1995 Windstar (3.8) and the dipstick has, "F48P-7A020-AA" and need a trailer harness so I wonder who has the best deal for a simple install???
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