7-13 pin adapter

Are you being serious? Sorry but this post highlights your own lack of understanding not a warning to others. if your new caravan has a plug with 13 wires and your car has a socket with 7 wires something is not going to work if you go for the cheap option of an adapter. did you not think to ask? My own car has the old seven pin socket and I too went for the adaptor but I fully understand the limitations this imparts.

when we changed our caravan it had the 13 pin socket so we had our car electrics changed, the caravan dealer lent us an adapter to tow in the old van for the exchange. the cost was not much more than an adapter and much better than all those extra wires looping about

had you not realised that 13 into 7 does not go ? the 13 pin plug has been widely commented on throughout the caravan fraternity & press for a considerable time now. A little investigation through the caravan sales book should have given you some clues. Mind you I can't understand a dealer who does not discuss these matters before the sale takes place, they do have a responsibility to inform the customer of any safety features & possible violations of insurance terms & conditions. You should have been advised that you should have had at least twin electrics fitted with the correct earth & supply to run the ATC

I should like to point out that if you have the black and white 7 pin plugs then a 13 pin adapter does work and so does the Alko ATC.

Bumping a very old thread here, I know.  I came across this post because I too am replacing my old caravan with the 12N/12S 7 pin connections, and the new one has a 13 pin plug on it.  The caravan does not have ATC, so no worries there, but the dealer is throwing in a converter cable for me. 

I've been scouring the CC site looking for proper solutions to this problem, and not finding any.  I feel the club should be issuing suitable advice to members in this position, including the issues around the ATC for those affected.  Yes, I can get the detailed wiring diagrams, and figure out my own solution, but that doesn't help everybody.  All the disparaging comments on this thread about the OP's ignorance is both disgraceful and unfriendly - offer some help here!

I suspect that the cleanest solution for me will be to replace the 7 pin sockets with a 13 pin one, DiY, and then carry a 13-7 converter socket for the times I borrow someone's trailer?