- Girlofwight
- Member Since: 03 Mar 2019
- Location: Isle of Wight
- Posts: 8
13pin trailer electrics
Good evening, I’m on a steep learning curve…
I’m blessed with two Landrover’s in the driveway, old Freelander has a 7 pin trailer socket, female. New Disco5 has a 13 pin socket female.
I‘m blessed with two boat trailers, one with 7 pin plug, one 13 pin plug, both male.
Finally I have an adapter which converts 7 pin plug to 13 pin, so the trailer with 7 pin plug can go behind 13 pin car.
Problem, today I could neither get the 13 pin trailer nor the 13 pin adapter connected to 13 pin car.
My handyman who is a experienced sparky tried to help. Eventually with some surgery on lugs in the plug we got the 13 pin plug into 13 pin socket. However try as we might, the 13pin male adapter wouldn’t go into 13 pin socket. Had to give up, remove adapter and use 7 pin car.
After a deep Google, and I’ve found the 13 pin *plugs* can get misaligned, and I’ve found a YouTube on re-aligning plug, and also link to cover/tool to do this.
So far, so good.
But the 7pin to 13pin plug adapter is moulded and cannot misalign, yet it won’t plug in. This suggest the female socket on car is out of line. BUT I cannot fund anything out about *sockets* going out of alignment, just plugs.
So my question, does anyone know about 13 pin *Sockets* on Disco5 having alignment issues?
If so, I’d appreciate any insights / experience.
Fortunately Disco is due in for service / MOT on Monday, and independent garage I use is also a trailer specialist, so I’m sure they’ll sort it, but I’d like to be ahead of the issue and understand what may have gone wrong, as todays planned boat lift outs were messed up.
Oh, and why don’t I just pull 7 pin trailer behind Freelander with 7 pin electrics? Well, Disco 5 is auto and much kinder to a long standing knee injury. A trip of any distance in Freelander = 24 hours of painkillers, such is getting old.
- Wolfpack
- Member Since: 25 May 2019
- Location: Norfolk, UK
- Posts: 360
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I don’t know what the situation is where you live, but around here the quickest way to get a trailer hook up check is to visit a local caravan dealers. Not only will they have experienced your problem before and have the answer, but they have socket testing rigs to quickly check if your wiring and installation is correct.
Can save a lot of time head scratching.
- Russell
- Member Since: 26 Jun 2016
- Location: Lydd
- Posts: 1102
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Sockets dont go out of line its the plug that does
Can you post a picture of your adaptor as there are several sorts but my guess is the the original trailer socket was out of line and where you have trimmed the lugs and put it in you have probably damaged a pin stopping the adaptor from fitting.
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