The way to see if your car recognises the van attached is to put your left and/or right indicator on. On the taco binical you should see a green trailer flashing. If not the car is not recognising anything is attached. The car anti sway etc will still work but gear changes etc will be as if nothing is connected.
Depending on what brake controller you have (I have a redarc) as you drive along push the control button and you should feel the van brakes being applied and pulling you up. Consequences of no van brakes is that you are relying on car to pull the total weight of van and car up. Not only lot more distance required to stop, but possible jack knifing and also illegal with anything more than 750kg attached to the car.
I made my own adapter from the car round plug to a 12 pin flat plug. Also to operate antisway, and fridge I installed Traxide with Anderson plug. Thgen did a piggy back with red anderson plug for anti sway and grey plug for fridge. Can use the correct pin on the plug but it can get hot because of the amps the fridge draws on 12V.
I have Al Ko anti sway. I have not felt it work except on extreme sways. Minor sway as you mention would probably not be enough to make it kick in. Not sure if any of them are adjustable.
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