Any tips on what lithium battery jump box to get?
I see some cheep ones on Amazon but the NOCO brand one looks to have the best reviews.
Any tips on what lithium battery jump box to get?
I see some cheep ones on Amazon but the NOCO brand one looks to have the best reviews.
In reply to ChrisTropea :
I have the Noco (GB50) and it's treated me well. I've only had to jump start cars so far, but no reason it should have any trouble w/ your Frontier.
Good looking truck. I have an '05 in boring white, I love that shade of blue.
The Noco should be fine. I had a Noco battery tender for my Pacific Coast and it was well screwed together other than they used their own connector. Connector was of good quality it just wasn't a 2 pin SAE style like the "super smart" battery tender of days gone by.
So I have had the Frontier close to a year now and I have no regrets on moving to a mid-size pickup truck for a daily driver. Its been on multiple road trips and has come in handy more than once to do truck stuff. Although its been a great truck so far, now that I am starting to tow my Beetle and other small trailers around with it I discovered I really needed to install a trailer brake controller. I knew this when I bought the truck but since I was not towing with it just yet I decided to hold off until I really needed it and since I am moving and needed to tow a trailer to move my Super Beetle and the contents of my house I decided that it was time.
I went onto eTrailer.com and looked to see what options were available that would fit my needs and perform well and found the Redarc Tow-Pro Liberty Brake Controller(Redarc Tow-Pro Liberty Brake Controller - Proportional Plug-and-Play Wiring Harness for Redarc Tow-Pro Trailer Brake Controllers). While it was not the cheapest option available I really liked that the control is just a knob that sticks through a blank plate in the dash and not a big unit that has to sit in a spot and take up a lot of space. After reading the reviews and watching some reviews on YouTube and and I decided that it was what I wanted.
A nice thing about my truck is that I have a factory tow package so it would be an easy plug and play install with an included wire harness to go from the controller to the factory plug under the dash.
Install was very straight forward and took less than an hour from start to finish. 
After towing the enclosed trailer across town to my new house I could tell already the huge difference in braking distance and the trailer no longer feels like it is pushing the truck. A longer term review to come once it completes its leaning cycle and starts doing the proportional brake control.
Update: After a few days of towing I can say this system works great for what I need. It is easy to adjust with the knob and the LED indicator lights work great to show that it is working and what the system is doing. Blue light shows the system is working with a trailer connected and when brakes are applied it goes from blue to red depending on how much force the system is sending to the trailer brakes. 
Looks great!
If I ever add a trailer brake controller to my Land Cruiser it's going to be a RedArc. Such a clean installation....
In reply to docwyte :
TBH that is the main reason I chose this model. I didn't want a big ugly box mounted in the way of stuff.
Uhm. One quick dumb question?
Here in South Africa, we use braked trailers that uses a very, how can I put this, backwards system.
It can either be mechanical or hydraulic.
Mechanical: the ball connector is uses the force of the trailer to push a lever, that pulls a cable on each wheel on a single axle vehicle trailer or one set of wheels on a double axle trailer, either cargo or vehicle.
Hydraulic: same principle, but just a master cylinder on the ball connector to wheel cylinders on the wheels in the same configuration as per above example.
The mechanical brakes are usually dedicated trailer manufacturers while the hydraulic is a home build using the front hubs from Hiluxes, Hardbodys or Rangers.
And both are legal in regards to our road traffic act fpor braked trailers.
How do you guys in the USA work your trailer brakes, as it seems it is all electrical?
They are usually either surge (hydraulic) or electric, but most common would be electric (vehicle supplies power to the trailer and there is a mechanical breakaway failsafe on trailer which would lock the axles and stop trailer.)
I went with the Redarc on my 2WD Frontier when getting tow controller for same basic reasons of most others... clean look with only control knob visible. Also liked the dual mode options (proportional & manual). Mounted the main unit/accelerometer in center console besides shifter and the knob on the circular blanking plate where the 4WD selector would be in the 4WD models. Tows very well, especially with the upgraded suspension & brakes I have on it. Much prefer the V6, 6spd manual '13 Frontier to the I4, 5spd '98 Tacoma I previously had... actual right size for a small truck - handling truck duty way better and quicker than my FR-S WAS to about 80mph... before aero starts kicking in to slow it down. Sizeable amount of torque down low is nice especially when noticeably better than stock when using an IMS.
From my move to Arizona/Utah area late last year with trailer I bought... averaged about 8mpg with it for the trip... would much rather pull a ~2x heavier open deck trailer/car combo and get way better fuel mileage... closed cargo trailers really ruin fuel economy.
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