Thule bikerack + towbar 7/8/13 pin sockets.....

[Daniel B]

Hello all,

I have a Nissan Primera estate that has a twin electric socket.
Both of these are designed to accept an 7 pin plug.

I bought a Thule towbar 2 bike carrier a little while back, and the socket is like this:

Which corresponds to the socket on the car perfectly.

I have just bought a 4 car thule carrier off ebay, and it has a socket like this:

Apologies for the image quality.
So now we have 8 pins, but the pins only fill approx half of the space.

As it is radically different spacing, no way it will fit with my towbar.

Google turns up nada about an 8 pin towbar plug, so I am hoping it is a 13 pin one but with not the whole array of pins???

If this is so, can anyone tell me what I need to do to make it compatible with my towbar.

I'm hoping the options are:

- Find a converter plug to convert the 8 small pins to 7 larger ones.
- Chop the 8 pin plug of the end of the new Bike racks electric plug, and replace with a 7 pin one
- I can't think of anything else.......

Please tell me I haven't just wasted lots of money

Dan

 

[Trillian]

i'd go torment halfords staff with it if i were you

 

[Chromatic]

http://www.roofracks.co.uk/main/cycleracks_rear2-3.htm

You'll want one of these, scroll down till you get to item number 9901

 

[Daniel B]

Thankyou very much all, I have bought other stuff off towsure before, so will give them a try next time I am down that way.

£20 seems a tad sttep for just a converter, so perhaps there is a non thule version that will still perform the task!

Cheers

Dan

 

[Night Train]

You could look on ebay for a converter, they are usually cheaper though not by much.

 

[Night Train]

It would be cheaper to just buy a 7 pin socket and change the socket on the bike rack to fit your car.