Gdetrailer wrote:
You can try to clean them, scrub them, adjust the prongs but after a while weather and age takes a toll on the plugs..
For $6 and a little bit of your time you can just replace the plug and be done with the issue for quit some time..
FOUND HERE
For less than $30 you can buy not only the plug but the entire harness with the plug molded in to the harness with 8ft of wire..
FOUND HERE
That one looked interesting since it has double prong contacts in the plug rather than standard single prong contacts..
To the OP, you have 13 year in Minnesota on your connection is your TV is still the 2003 Explorer Limited 4X4 V8 Advancetrac 3.73 Axle. Spend a couple dollars and get new connections, buy the best you can find.