In the next couple of days im going to install a brake controller into my truck and im wondering of a different placement for the unit besides the the usual place by the obd 2 port.

 

Which controller are you installing?

 

Its a Draw-Tite activator 2

 

Just my 2 cents, put the controler in a place for easy access. I got into trouble last year on a switch back on a mountain road and would have lost it if it was for being able to lock the trailer brakes up. And no I didn't have too much trailer it was all my fault going to fast on an unknown road will steep blind turns.

 

Ya you obviously want a controller in easy access, but has anyone put the controller in the open bottom compartment in the center stack?

 

Do you have the center console like on a fx4 or lariat? I have mine mounted to the side off it. Looks pretty good. I will try to get pictures tonight when I get home and post them.

 

I do have a center console but it does'nt flow through to the dash i have space between my center console and dash.

 

I tryed mine in that hole in the center stack but it stuck out and didn't look good. Now if you cut a hole and flush mounted it, it may look alot better. I mounted mine to the left of the steering wheel on the bottom panel. I figured it would get in the way but I haven't hit it getting in and out of the truck in the last 2 years.

 

Mine is under the dash on the left side of the steering wheel.

 

I installed my Tekonsha controller under the dash on the right side of the steering wheel.

 

I mounted mine inside the FX4 center console. Granted, in a pinch it would require the extra step of opening the console to manually activate the trailer brakes, but, in all my years of towing, I have never needed to. Plus, for the other 99% of the time a trailer with brakes is not attached, it is out of sight.

 

IF I needed it, I sure wouldn't want to have to open the console to get to it. A friend was towing a trailer down a long grade late at night when the trailer suddenly started to weave and if he hadn't had quick access to the controller, it would not have been a pretty sight. Something you probably rarely ever use, but when you need it, you need it NOW! When I did tow a travel trailer, because I'm right handed, the controller went above my right leg on the bottom of the dash.

 

ive got mine on the left side of the steering wheel for ease of access

 

Tekonsha p3!