Glory Car Trailer Connector Pinout

On the vehicle side there will be a female connector while the trailer rv harness will have a male connector.

Car trailer connector pinout. 1 4 wire the first 4 pins white brown yellow green just like the 4 pin connector above. 12 pin trailer plugs. On the tow vehicle our preference is to mount a twelve pin flat.

I think part of it is that the flat connector has the female part the part you need to protect most covered and attached to the vehicle whereas the 7 pin round although the connector has the female socket on the car the plug on the trailer has female sockets for the individual pins. It has three poles for basic functions running lights turn signals and brake lights and one pin for the ground. Next up we have the twelve pin plug.

The 7 pin connector uses on newer trailers all 7 pins according to the iso standard. You get everything that you connected on the five and seven plus you now have five extra pins to wire up various accessories. The 5th pin a blue wire gives power to operate or disable the trailer brakes.

Traditional trailer with brakes use a 5 pin connector. This connector is commonly found on most light duty trailers. On older trailers there s sometimes a 5 wire setup using a 7 pin connector.

I don t have the luxury of keeping my trailers in a garage they are out in the elements which. If you tow a trailer or caravan that has either a seven pin flat or twelve pin flat both of these can plug into the twelve pin on your car. If a trailer has brakes then it needs a connector with at least 5 pins.

In these cases exclude connection for right tail light 58r and rear fog light 54g and connect the tail lights only to pin for left tail light 58l.