Omrod wrote:
Thanks for the replies. What happens is . . . I'm traveling down the road, pulling my camper I and get: ding, ding, ding and a message saying "Trailer Connected". I dismiss the message and a little while later it does it again. It gets annoying after a while. My battery is fine no corrosion there and it doesn't look real corroded inside the plug. I was hoping there was "magic" spray with baking soda or something.
This is a different beast.
There is no magical sprays, incantations for this.
First thing is to use sandpaper, you can take a small piece, roll it up then insert it into all of the connections of the plug to shine up the connections.
Repeat this on the truck socket.
Then see if your connect while driving goes away.
You should be getting a disconnect warning before getting a connect warning each time which makes me wonder if you have an issue with your brake controller..
If you continue to get this warning you will need to start looking at the wiring on the trailer back to the brakes on the axles.
Depending on brake controller you may not have a short warning and when the short clears you get the connect warning..
If this is the case, then the brake wiring back at the axles may be the issue. Typically the manufacturers run the brake wires through the axle tubes, it lays loose inside the tube and can move around. This movement often chafes the insulation causing the wires to short..
The fix is to run new wire outside the axles and disconnect the internal axle wiring.
Another potential short issue is inside the hubs, sometimes the magnet wire gets caught between moving parts and the insulation gets worn causing a short..
In this case, you can cut and splice the wire and then make sure it is out of the way of moving parts..
