7 Pin Trailer Connection falling out of TV outlet

10by32 wrote:
I always secure mine with one of the mini bungee cords. Learned the Harry way what happens when it drags on the road for a while.

I do the same as above

Another possibility is the cord is too short.I ran into this pulling a borrowed trailer. Every time I turned left it unplugged the cord.

10by32 wrote:
I always secure mine with one of the mini bungee cords. Learned the Harry way what happens when it drags on the road for a while.

Me too. I now have an outlet in the bed of my truck and I trimmed the excess wire so it won't happen again.

I had this issue with my '97 Ford. It wouldn't fall out but it would lose connection. The TV connector was worn out and I had to replace it.

schlep1967 wrote:
Another possibility is the cord is too short.I ran into this pulling a borrowed trailer. Every time I turned left it unplugged the cord.

It makes trip planning a little more difficult when you can only make right turns.

We've had the "trailer disconnected" warning come up on two trips now. The first time we were going down the freeway and I have no idea why it happened.

The most recent one was on a fairly smooth road, but the first 4.5 miles away from the campsite was a dirt road. So that could have shaken the connector lose just a bit. (on the good news front, that road liquefied everything in the black tank)

I'll have to see about rigging up a small bungee as others have done. The 7-pin on the TV is was new a year ago as I made the dealer replace the original because the cover was missing.

If you are plugged in all the way and the door tab is holding the plug in and yet you still are getting a unplugged signal. Then I wonder if you may have corrosion in the plugs and need to clean them and then use di-electric grease.


Sorry if I didn't explain this very well.

As others said, make sure the lip is catching securely and the spring on the flap is intact. As an extra measure of security, I take a 2" section of bicycle inner tube and slide over the connector. Once the connection is plugged in, I work the inner tube up and over the flap door to hold it in place and provide a little protection from read dirt and water. Hasn't come loose yet.

I save the long twist ties from the kid's Xmas toys and use them to tie the plug lid to the plug. It keeps the plug from backing out. When a twist tie breaks from too many uses, I just grab a new one. Cheap and easy.

I use a tie wrap to hold the trailer plug onto the truck's outlet cover.