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aquavita
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Jul 07, 2014

Coachman power cord hole

We recently traded in our cruiser viewfinder with a seperate power cord to a coachman catalina that has a powercord that stays attached and goes into a hole. The plug head of the power cord is supposed to stay out in the door crevice and the cord goes through the hole into a closed compartment.

Well, when I pushed the cord in during our first trip out it pulled the plug head into the storage compartment and was a PITA to get out. We actually ended up bending the prongs trying. There does not appear to be a way to access the storage compartment, and there are hard plastic prongs at the head of the hole to the storage compartment that I believe are supposed to keep this from happening. But don't.

Are we the only people that have this problem? It took almost 30 minutes to work it out. Any suggestions to preventing it?

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  • Had the same thing on our last trailer. I did as you did and gave it one push too much and it went into the hole. I ended up just unscrewing the outside receptacle so I could reach it. It could also be reached from the inside thru some drawers in the bedroom I found out latter. I hated that setup as the cord was always getting tangled. You could always convert the whole thing to a fixed plug in like your old one. It seems like it runs $75-100.00 and that's why I never did. Hated the trailer and traded it anyways.