2010 Stallion Electric trunk lock

How many of you have hooked up your electric trunk lock?

just checking...MINE WORKS GREAT...

MERRY CHRISTMAS....:Santa:

ODDOMAN

#667

SOUTH CAROLINA

Did yours come equipped with one or did you have to install one? Any details would be appreciated.

Thanks for not answering.

I tried to PM you but that doesn't work either.

I read some where on this page that all you had to do was hook it up but I don't want to start drilling holes before I know if this is really true. Since the wiring and controls are from a pickup I really can't believe there would be provisions for an electric trunk release.

[QUOTE=KE5WL;535235]Did yours come equipped with one or did you have to install one? Any details would be appreciated.[/QUOTE]

Sorry for the delay....the electric switch came with it.....but wasn't hooked up....I ran a wire to the Inside light switch....turn it on then off again....trunk unlocked...

Oddoman

#667

South Carolina...

As far as I know, all the trunk releases have an option to run a power wire to it and be able to open the trunk. I have one also. I would not personally wire it direct to the inside lights as if you need the lights for something, you open the trunk and now have to get out and close the trunk. Hide a push button trunk release switch so that just anybody can't open your trunk when you aren't around and possibly help themselves to whatever is in the trunk! Just my opinion.

Tomg

[QUOTE=tomg;543656]As far as I know, all the trunk releases have an option to run a power wire to it and be able to open the trunk. I have one also. I would not personally wire it direct to the inside lights as if you need the lights for something, you open the trunk and now have to get out and close the trunk. Hide a push button trunk release switch so that just anybody can't open your trunk when you aren't around and possibly help themselves to whatever is in the trunk! Just my opinion.

Tomg[/QUOTE] Tom you say all the Stallions were made with the elect lock ?

Mine doesn't have one. Might only be the newer ABS bodies. Rick

[QUOTE=Doc7402;543702]Tom you say all the Stallions were made with the elect lock ?[/QUOTE]

The mechanism in the trunk is there but, you have to add your push button and power wire to the trunk latch

Tomg

[QUOTE=tomg;544668]The mechanism in the trunk is there but, you have to add your push button and power wire to the trunk latch

Tomg[/QUOTE]

Trying to figure out which pole is negative and positive.

:cool::cool:

Ok, got it figured out and done. The plastic housing under the trunk lid where the light is has to be removed , it is held on with snaps , mine had two rivets holding it also, not sure if they all do. I used the ground wire from the light to connect to the bottom post/ connector on the latch, there are three of them, then connect a wire from the middle post of the latch to my push button switch, also from there I ran a wire to a hot wire in the fuse box. NOTE: If you have to remove the latch , it is screwed into a plate that will move around making hard to get the screws back in. That's it you find it hard to plug the wires into the latch. My push button is located on the interior light switch panel. The latch is from a 2007 Ford Focus.

Any questions ?:)

Just for info, my fiberglass body does not have an electric trunk latch. Rick

[QUOTE=rocket1lf;648006]Just for info, my fiberglass body does not have an electric trunk latch. Rick[/QUOTE]

Mine is fiberglass also, but it has it. Did you very close, because it's hard to see the male connectors.. What year is it?

[QUOTE=1 triker;648111]Mine is fiberglass also, but it has it. Did you very close, because it's hard to see the male connectors.. What year is it?[/QUOTE]

1 Triker, if you have #796 it should be ABS. The ABS numbers began in the mid 500's. Also I can see the sidestep on yours has the black rubber mat which is common for the ABS models. The fiberglass models do not have it, unless it is applied after market. Mine is fiberglass and it does have the electric mechanism in the trunk, but I never connected it.

[QUOTE=trikervet;648116]1 Triker, if you have #796 it should be ABS. The ABS numbers began in the mid 500's. Also I can see the sidestep on yours has the black rubber mat which is common for the ABS models. The fiberglass models do not have it, unless it is applied after market. Mine is fiberglass and it does have the electric mechanism in the trunk, but I never connected it.[/QUOTE]

Sorry, made a mistake, yes it is ABS. But if someone really want that feature I'm thinking they can buy the electric latch and wire it up.

Mine broke and I had TMS send me another one. It was different from the one you have and doesn't have an electric release. Mine's a 2008. Rick

[QUOTE=rocket1lf;648146]Mine broke and I had TMS send me another one. It was different from the one you have and doesn't have an electric release. Mine's a 2008. Rick[/QUOTE]

The electric unit is very handy, if I had the older model I would definitely try to replace the regular one with an electric one. Ebay has them cheap.