Thread: Caravan Connectors at Rear of a D3

You have posted this in the Landrover Series 3 section where you might be better in the Discovery Series 3 section D3 / D4 / RRS - Australian Land Rover Owners

The area that you have posted is for series 3 landrovers - basically 1971 to about 1981 leave spring type vehicles - the Toyota equivalent would be the 40 series.

However to your question - the black plug is the one to use. Suitable adaptors to the flat pin are sold at all auto spare parts stores - I bought mine at Supercheap - they must have been out of stock when you were there.

The white plug is the connector for the North American market - I guess it was cheaper to put both in the car.

Garry

Garry,

Thanks, still trying to familiarise myself with the site and the models.

I tried the Supercheap connector to the black plug, and it worked for a brief period than when I tested the brake lights I lost everything except the indicators. Everything is ok hooked up to the Cruiser so not sure where to go. Some bad connections somewhere. I'll take another look in daylight.

Rgds

Paul.

Wasn't you at bars n racks was it?

There have been issues with the wiring of Euro vs Jap for towing particularly for trailer brakes. I use a Supercrap one for trailers and it works finebut don't need trailer brakes.
Does the trailer have LEDS?

Originally Posted by Pressy

Garry,

Thanks, still trying to familiarise myself with the site and the models.

I tried the Supercheap connector to the black plug, and it worked for a brief period than when I tested the brake lights I lost everything except the indicators. Everything is ok hooked up to the Cruiser so not sure where to go. Some bad connections somewhere. I'll take another look in daylight.

Rgds

Paul.

Sounds like you have LEDS in your trailer - the supercheap one works fine on my trailer with incandescant bulbs.

LEDs on the trailer are too low a resistance and is not sensed by the car systems (yes computer driven - they always outsmart themselves - a modern car that will not run modern trailer lights ).

You will need some sort of special kit to instal in your car or why not change the LEDS out to normal lights.

Garry

If so you will need a pulse shunt or similar.

Hey Paul,

I recently purchased a LED Adaptor module for the D3 from 'Linear Electronic Design' in Victoria. The version I got wires internally into the vehicle where the rear aircon is or would be located rather than being mounted on the trailer/van.

www.linearelectronicdesign.com

The owner was very helpful and and sent the kit along with installation instructions included.

Hope that helps to get things sorted...

cheers,
Terry

Originally Posted by TerryO

Hey Paul,

I recently purchased a LED Adaptor module for the D3 from 'Linear Electronic Design' in Victoria. The version I got wires internally into the vehicle where the rear aircon is or would be located rather than being mounted on the trailer/van.

www.linearelectronicdesign.com

The owner was very helpful and and sent the kit along with installation instructions included.

Hope that helps to get things sorted...

cheers,
Terry

Hi Terry,

Approximately how much did the module cost?

A

From memory roughly about $240 ...that is from memory though it would be best to email them.

cheers,
Terry