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Was away with my caravan last week & the fridge didn't work off the car, connected my friends car to the van & it worked. Checked all the fuses on the car that in can find.I use a splitter cable from the 13 pin plug on the car to two 7 pin plugs on the van. My splitter cable is o k as I used that when I connected to my friends car. I checked the 7 pin plug out of the car with the engine running there is only one pin with 12v. pin7 Earth & pin3 has 12v & I think ther should be three. Any ideas. Many thanks Ray.

BMW do not provide a live feed for the fridge. Some after market companies like ph jones splice into the loom so you have power forthe fridge.....

BMW do not wire up all the pins.  They also fail to warn owners of that little gem!  I had mine sorted by the Dealer as I ordered a car with 13-pin electrics and nothing in the brochure said it would not be provided with the complete system.

You will need to get a specialist to wire in the missing wires, unless you feel competent to have a try.

Apparently only the UK use the full wiring and BMW chose not to bother.

P F Jones will be able to provide the kit and probably the fitting instructions.  They are a helpful bunch (based in Manchester I think).

He needs to buy that "TEC3M" relay I was telling you about X5Sport !!

( see my post . . http://xdrivers.co.uk/forum/index.php/t ... .html 

Rayman......email me and I'll send you a wiring diagram and instructions on how to mod. your car to power fridge while travelling.

I've just found out it's easy,...2 wires, straight across the battery, an inline fuse and a TEC3M relay.

EbAy .... Relay = about £12, plus bit of wire and an inline fuse

Which will power up your fridge when the car is running.

It is easy. On later facelift cars, the very last fuse in the boot was not occupied by the self levelling electrics, so is an ideal point to provide a supply to a split relay. You should have 3 earths: pin 3 for all the road lights; pin 11 for the fridge; pin 13 for the live on pin 9. None of these should be joined on the caravan side-each wire must run to an earth point in the car.

Had the same problem. It's not just the fridge, it's also the battery charging. Mine was a Westfalia bar and electrics and was fitted by a Witter agent. When I took it up with them, they fitted the extra wiring for free. This was 5 years ago!

Contact pfjones and they will supply you with oem electric kit plug and play easy to fit .