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Your cart is empty.Hopkins Manufacturing Corporation makes your towing experience simpler and more rewarding through innovation and value. Hopkins offers a variety of towing solutions including vehicle wiring kits, adapters, vehicle and trailer connectors, breakaway systems, and much more. Today, more than 40 percentage of retail category sales are generated from Hopkins innovations. Hopkins INSIGHT brake control works on trailers with electric or hydraulic brakes. Features advanced proportional technology that mirrors the braking of the tow vehicle for safe, smooth stops, and short-proof protection for up to 8 trailer brakes. With multiple mounting locations in your vehicle, the separate components mount where you want them, with no drilling required. Allows you to keep your eyes on the road, with controls in easy reach. Includes digital power and sensitivity settings.
Diane Heaps
Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2025
Works great. By far the best price.
Kevin
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2025
I had this brake controller up & running pretty quickly. Enables me to control trailer brakes when towing. I like that the brake force can be adjusted.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2024
This works great as a trailer break and is super easy to use. However, it doesn’t say anywhere that an adapter is required to plug it in so we had to quickly find an adapter at a nearby parts store before using it.
Doug ashley
Reviewed in Canada on May 14, 2024
Great product looks good and works good
Slopper
Reviewed in Canada on February 25, 2024
Using to control brakes on 2 horse trailer with tandem axles 4 brakes in all
Al
Reviewed in Canada on November 18, 2024
I installed this trailer brake controller into my 2011 Chevy Silverado and it worked perfect for my tandem axle 2001 Forest River trailer
Kindle Customer
Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2024
This thing rocks. Mount the controls and display to wherever you like. Works perfectly. Trailer brakes are super smooth at any speed. I was able to splice the wires with the Toyota/lexus harness that I had to the brake controller. The insight wires are 12g and the Toyota wires were 16-18g. A bit tough to find a compatible connectors so I had to use 3 different types. I’d suggest ordering a specific vehicle harness from insight at the same time. Peace of mind and a lot faster. It’s worth the $20.I had a Curt echo wireless but was worried about 2 things with it. First, anyone could steal it since it was an external connection. Second, it was grabby at low speeds even with the sensitivity turned completely down to 1. I finally go so tired of having to continually adjust the settings on the app that I decided to get a hardwired controller and I’m extremely glad I went that route.No more worries about theft, super smooth braking at any speed, and no hardware in the way to kick against your knees. Love it. Well worth the price.
Brian Dueck
Reviewed in Canada on June 3, 2023
Thought item was suspicious when I could see packaging was glued together. Scratches on many areas indicating this was previously installed. Haven't tried it out to make sure it works but need for next weekend camping. Should of been a better deal being used.
George Williams
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2022
This device is about as perfect as I can imagine it can be.I really, really love the modular design. It's brilliant and makes everything so easy. Mount the "brain box" in the footwell, mount the readout near your instrument cluster, and mount the pinch control anywhere you find convenient. It's just that simple. I took less than five minutes deciding where I wanted to mount everything. (I admit, I spent the first day driving without the pinch controller mounted yet, so I could test out exactly where I liked it best.)It's easy to fine tune the breaking amounts for your vehicle/trailer. And is even capable of remembering the settings for different trailers. And it could not be easier to use on the road.I had no compatibility issues with either my towing vehicle nor any trailers.The modular design alone makes this absolute winner, but the price point is perfect as well (not so cheap as to make me think it's junk, but not so expensive that I'm warned off). And it's worked reliably for a year now. I will update my review if any of that changes.I've been nothing but happy with this purchase, and if I needed a second unit I wouldn't think twice about purchasing it again.
Brad
Reviewed in Canada on June 13, 2020
Nice quality
Bloose
Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2014
I wanted to wait until I had a change to use this controller towing a heavy load before writing a review. I had that chance this past weekend.I have a 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee with the Eco Diesel and I used it to tow a load of 7000lbs for about a 6 hour ride. The trailer brakes, and controller, worked flawlessly. The controller was easy to set and it worked very proportionally. The brake application was very linear.That doesn't mean everything is perfect. From an operational standpoint I am very happy. The installation itself wasn't bad either. My only issue is with the remote display and remote manual brake control unit. Both are larger than I would have liked and that is especially the case with the manual brake control. In trying to find a spot for the both of them their size caused some issues. It's not that they are so large they won't fit places, it's that they are large enough that it is difficult to make them inconspicuous when installed and not in use.With the display once the rubber bezel and pivoting mount is removed it is much better. It would have been nice though it had much less depth. To the point of being able to have the back of the unit stuck to a flat surface facing the driver. It is deep enough that about the only real choice is to mount it on the top of the dash somewhere. I wound up placing it on the dash top just in front of the A pillar. When not in use it is a little more noticeable than I'd like but not terrible. Also, without the ball mount, being just Velcroed to the dash top, it is not perfectly angled to the driver. Using the ball mount you can angle it any way you'd like but for me the ball mount was far too bulky. In the end it works.For the manual brake control it is far more bulky and thus harder to find an inconspicuous place for it. Ultimately I mounted it to the knee bolster very as low and to the outside of the drivers compartment as possible. It is quite large. I'd have preferred it to be at least 1/2 its size.The whole idea of having the three parts of this setup separate instead of a single unit is to allow flexible and "custom" installation. When you take their bulkiness and then add in somewhat substantial cables, it makes a true lay custom or integrated look very difficult.Even with these difficulties I am giving this item 5 stars, just barely though. The reason is, it is still better than a standard brake controller for reduced bulk and it works very well. Just be prepared to take some time to get it installed in a manner you would like and keep in mind it will be very hard to get a truely integrated look.
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