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Hello, neighbors! It's Brad here at etrailer, and today we're taking a look at the Hopkins Wireless Magnetic Tow Light system for a flat towed vehicle. I had the hazards on in the RV, and you can see there's no wires going up to it. So these work wirelessly. They are powered by AA batteries, and they have a low indicator light on the driver's side light. There's an on and off switch. So when not in use, you simply swap it off and you can save your battery for another time.

Being LED lights your batteries should last a long time. To transmit the signal from the RV to the lights on the back of the towed vehicle, you have a simple 4-pole harness. And if you don't have a 4-pole on your RV, we do sell adapters to go from your 7 to 4. So once we plug into our 4-pole, we have a transmitter here that is magnetic so you can mount it to the frame, hitch, whatever it may be. And this is really nice to get it out of the way as well, when you're flat towing a vehicle, because you already do have the umbilical as well as safety chains.

So to run wires- one more wire, I should say, is kind of a pain and this just keeps it nice and clean and tucked away. When flat towing a vehicle, there's also a lot of legalities, as far as making sure you're road legal. These are DOT compliant and so they're going to make sure to keep you legal on the road in all 50 states. So this is probably what you're used to seeing with magnetic lights when you hook up to your flat towed vehicle to your camper, and that's going to be a lot of wires. It's draped over the vehicle, which doesn't seem like an issue until you hit some wind resistance and that's flapping on your vehicle.

Now it shouldn't damage it, but I'm kind of a car enthusiast myself, and I would hate to have wire marks down my car. So it runs up to our full 4-pole and there's plenty of wire, which seems great, but there's also plenty of wire. When you do run your wire, you do have to get creative and find ways that the wire's not going to flop over the side of the vehicle. Maybe run it through some windows, whatever it may be. But that is one more step when you're trying to hit the road.

And when you're not using it, and you're having to bundle up all this wire, and so it's going to become a nest of bundle up wire, unless you cord it up nice. So with today's technology, there's ways to fix this. So while the lights are required and you do have to drape these wires, there are other options. So many people opt to run diodes in their light, which you do have to tap into your brake signals. And you do have to run wire. It's not terribly hard but if you're not mechanically inclined, or really don't feel like doing some work on your vehicle, and you want to just get to towing, you do have another option now. So as you can see, we have it magnetized onto the back of the vehicle. Nice and clean. And best of all, this is the only wire that I have to worry about making contact with the vehicle. Some great things about the lights. Now they're pretty simple overall, but effective is really what they are. Now you see they have LH for left hand and the other one has RH for right hand. So you're not going to get these confused and have your turn signals flip-flop. Few other options, or items, here that you'll see is the on-off switch. So when you're not using your lights you can simply power them off and save your battery. Changing out batteries is extremely simple. Just a twist and you have four AAs on each side. I'm gonna put this back here. And this magnet is extremely heavy duty. Takes a little bit for me to even pull it off. But the magnet is rubber coated, so it's not gonna damage the paint while it's sticking to your vehicle. Another great thing is you do have the connecting wire between the two, but to keep these from dragging on the vehicle, you can simply wrap the excess around here, and that way there's no wires making contact with the actual vehicle. And they're not gonna become unflailed while driving in the wind. We have the same features on our right-hand light as well. The switch is only on one of 'em, which makes it nice and easy. That way you don't forget to turn one on or off. So they're in a system. Now something else that is really nice is the fact that they are sonically sealed. So what that's going to do is keep moisture out of the bulb because as we know, headlights and tail lights can sometimes get water buildup and moisture, and erode the insides of it. That's not the case here because they are sealed. Another great thing about this lighting system is if you're flat towing a different vehicle, or you need to use 'em on a trai

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