Small or large 7 pin? Advice pls

Agree, though that would be tooooooo easy.......

and we shouldn't have different cars with differnet parts and engines and ....and...

Leroy

OH I wouldn't go that far Leroy, I just find it a pain when borrowing a mates trailer, or using my car and a mates boat on a trip etc, I would just prefer they were std on all trailers for ease of use.

I agree. All you foreigners use the wrong types.

In WA it's the small 7 pin round with a 50mm ball. Anything else is clearly ridiculous.

But dont forget the small 5 pin that is also used in WA.

Andrew,

If you guys in Kununurra can't get your act together and standardise how do you expect the rest of the continent to manage it?

And V8D - I'm with you on the 50mm ball - even selling 2 1/2 inch balls just promotes madness.

Cheers
Andrew.

Hey at one stage I had 4 trailers and 2 cars, 2 of the trailers were the same, as one of the cars, and the other car was the same as one of the other trailers. I had to buy lots of plugs (and a carton) to change them all. Last time I registered a trailer in NSW to pass a roadworthy it had to have a 7 pin plug, regardless of whether it needed it or had 5 core wire comeing out of it.

Alan, ahh yes the old 5 pin to go with even trickier 1 7/8" ball. They go on OK, but they come off OK too.

Traps for young players.

From memory if you used the 49mm ball instead of the 1 7/8" then you could not only use a 1 7/8" coupling but a 50mm coupling would also fit and not come off. You got a bit of slop but it would not seperate.

Worked okay with my garden trailers but wouldn't recommend it for anything heavy.

Still having a bit of a laugh remembering my mates old man trying to put my 1 7 /8 " trailer coupling on a 50 mm ball.

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Glenn

Yeh, it would be a good standard if it was a 12 pin flat on the vehicle. As said before, can take the most current of all the plugs, and the advantage of plugging in a "normal" 7 pin as found on most box trailers and a lot of caravans