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Personbaileyman
06/6/2015 at 7:56am
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I have 13pin plug on my caravan and two seven pin sockets on my car. Have had trouble with two adaptors and am wondering about rewiring the 13 pin plug into 2 seven pins.
Has anybody done this.
I do not want to change wiring on the car.

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Personbilly
06/6/2015 at 8:45am
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One way would be to rewire your existing adaptor using much longer lengths of black & grey cable then coil up caravan 13core cable back into A frame somewhere leaving plug in place, connect up adaptor & secure everything neatly with cable ties & caravan will then have reverted back to older twin cable system. Do that & caravan can easily be changed back to 13pin plug if you sell it.


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06/6/2015 at 8:52am
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Thanks, I have done that already, left the cables permanently connected. But getting intermittent power to fridge and atc control on caravan. More connections more likely to have a problem I suppose.
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Yes, badly wired adaptors are not unknown. If all connections are good then it will work.

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Personmagicgrotto
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Hi baileyman

Is it your van OR is it your car wireing?

If you have eny of them blue snap 2gether conectors enywere I would suspect 1 of them is not making contact properly !!!

they are CRAP & cheep & dont always do wot it say's on the tin !!!!

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We had ours changed from twin to single on the car , cost £30 from the mobile caravan service engineer, took no more than 20 mins on site, he was already there to sort out a faulty fridge under warranty,


Personbaileyman
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As both adaptors are playing up I suspect the 13 pin socket on the van. It seems a bit dodgy so will replace that when I can.
I am in Sweden for another 2 weeks or so. Towed the caravan here, took 4 days but a fabulous journey

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