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etrailer | Install: Brake Buddy Select 3 Portable Flat Tow Brake System on a 2017 Ford Edge

Click for more info and reviews of this Brake Buddy Flat Tow Brake System: https://www.etrailer.com/Flat-Tow-Bra... Check out some similar Flat Tow Brake System options: https://www.etrailer.com/tow-bar-brak... Search for other popular Ford Edge parts and accessories: https://www.etrailer.com/vehicle/2017... https://www.etrailer.com Don’t forget to subscribe!    / etrailertv   Full transcript: https://www.etrailer.com/tv-install-h... Shane: Hi I'm Shane with etrailer.com. Today I'm going to walk with you how I installed the Brake Buddy Select 3 portable supplemental braking system on your 2017 Ford Edge. A braking system is going to be required by law in any vehicle being flat-towed. It's going to be one of the main components to getting your vehicle set up to be flat towed behind your RV. The difference between a portable system or transferable system and a permanent install is a permanent install is going to stay on the vehicle. With the portable transferable system, if you decide to buy another car, that system can be taken and used in that other car once it's set up to be flat-towed.This is what our Brake Buddy is going to look like when it's installed on our vehicle, it's going to sit in the driver's side floorboard, it's going to attach to our brake pedal with a clamp. You have your power cord that plugs into a connector that's mounted on the dash that connects to the battery underneath the hood, or out in the engine compartment. Our Brake Buddy is going to have four legs. They are going to be adjustable to fit the contour of your floor. If you notice our front ones are out. Our back ones are set up because they're sitting kind of on a hump. So when setting it up, you just want to make sure that the arm going to the brake pedal is sitting level. The arm here, it is a folding arm, so when in storage, you pull it down. When you're ready to use it, you fold it up and it's designed to sit or rest right up against your seat. This is where your braking system is getting the pressure to apply the brake on the brake pedal.Our handle is going to have a nice foam pad. It's going to be a non-slip pad, so it's going to make it very easy when it's folded down to carry it around and to put it in storage. Our power cable is going to have easy pull rings on it. This is going to make it easy to connect and disconnect so you're not actually pulling on the cable and damaging the wires. And looking at box, you may think it may be a little bit heavy. It's not. This box only weighs about 12 pounds, so it's going to be very easy to set in place and to remove and to put it in storage when you're not using.Brake Buddy is going to come with a battery charge setup, and what this does is it has a wire that runs down to the six pole plug. While it's being flat-towed, it's going to maintain a charge on your battery. It's going to trickle charge your battery. The reason you need this is the Ford Edge requires you to have a battery shut off on it, or requires you to disconnect the battery. However, the braking system has to get power from somewhere, so it has to be connected to the battery. If you don't have a battery charge, what happens is maybe you're driving eight hours down the road, as you're using that braking system, it's drawing power from the battery, potentially draining the battery. This is going to save that. It's going to maintain the charge on the battery so you don't get where you're going and have a dead battery and have to rely on somebody else to help you out.Brake Buddy is going to come with a breakaway switch, and what this does is it's going to be a secondary safety device in case your vehicle comes disconnected from the motor home or from the tow bar. There's going to be a wire that connects to this ring from this ring to the motor home. If it comes disconnected, it's going to pull this pin out and Brake Buddy's going to apply the brakes inside the vehicle, bringing the vehicle to a stop. Brake Buddy is also going to come with a monitor that mounts inside the RV. It's going to be battery operated as well as 12 volt. With the battery operation, that makes it wireless, you have an on and off switch here. Can turn it on. If you're not wanting to use the battery, you simply plug it into a 12 volt outlet and it powers up.On top of our Brake Buddy you can see we're going to have a nice, easy to read screen. This is going to be what your sensitivity is set at. Again, this is going to be proportional, so it's going to match the braking pressure applied in the RV. The higher this number, the faster this system is going to apply the brakes, which means it's going to have a higher sensitivity. These numbers here, you can see it's at four, this is about midway for sensitivity setting. The farther you go up, again, you go up to seven, th