Hi,
Why twin electrics, guess you won't tow a caravan with the twin air and single fine for a trailer?
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Yea makes sense, I think if I needed that I'd go for 13 pin as looks neater than 2x7 pin sockets.
Going to hang something like this off it: http://www.roofbox.co.uk/scripts/rb...rier_no_brp113/Qx@w,6M42VAwp3@Rb{~cC4ure5JbA3
. You can't really get any noticeable charge in to a leisure battery or cool a fridge on 12v to any degree unless you are driving for several hours. By that I mean more than 4/5 hours consistently.
Hi, yes I went for the fixed swan neck. It's no problem with the parking sensors, thank goodness, although if the tow ball cover goes askew it occaisionaly triggers the sensors. I had the twin electrics fitted because I have a leisure battery and fridge in the folding camper.
The twin electrics have changed a bit since I fitted them myself on my Mulitpla many years ago. I'm sure I used to have two relay controlled Live feeds on the grey plug, one for the fridge and one for the leisure battery. With this set up I have now, I only have one. At this time I'm not plugging the grey plug in and to be honest I probably wouldn;t bother with them again. You can't really get any noticeable charge in to a leisure battery or cool a fridge on 12v to any degree unless you are driving for several hours. By that I mean more than 4/5 hours consistently.
I had the 13pin on the 2nd Multipla but it was a bugger for fault finding, if I'm honest. Two seperate plugs is much easier to test if you're towing older trailers like I am. Any fault is ALMOST certain to be in the trailer electrics on my old stuff, but I did find one fault in the 13 pin connection and it was very confusing for a little while. I'll stick to the old grey and black plugs (12n/12s I think?)
I was trying to pretend this next problem doesn't happen, but as my fury at this piece of **** now holds no bounds and I can defend Fiat and the 500L no more, despite my love affair with the marque. I'm going to tell it how I've found it from now on.
So Be VERY careful what you tow. My TA (doesn't stand for twin air, it means 'totally awful') clutch starts to stink if it has to do any work, when towing, like reversing, balancing the clutch with the folding camper attached (650kg only) that sort of thing. Anything that puts unusual load on the engine when towing, even for a brief moment, has made the clutch smell.
I reversed up a tiny incline with the folding camper at Go Outdoors in Canterbury, for a few seconds and the smell was still lingering when I came out half an hour later.
I then backed it the length of the car park, hoping the car would catch fire. But to no avail. I just left the smell of a scorched skunk, behind me.
If you tow with the 1.4 or the diesels, I'd be keen to know how you get on.
I'd also been keen to know the contact details of any pyromaniacs you may know. I am sure a reasonable deal could be struck......