On Mon, 14 Aug 2017 19:55:11 -0700, roymgarden wrote:

2017 and looking to do the same, (Temp import of a G reg glider)
From what I can see, almost zero hassle (bar trailer wiring and having
to drive on the wrong side of the road :-) )
Possibly moving to Louisiana but will almost certainly be flying out of
Houston.

Maybe the mod I've just done to my trailer, as part of a rewiring project,
would make a useful halfway house. Since I managed to damage the flying
lead that connects to the car, I cut it off and plumbed it into a 7-bin N
series socket which I'd fitted to the front of the trailer in the same
side of the towbar as the socket on my car and now I use a 1.5m extension
cable as the connection between car and trailer. One benefit is that,
when the trailer is parked, the extension cable is inside it and out of
the weather. The socket and its sprung cover are cast metal and seem
fairly weatherproof.

If you did that, then changing the plug on one end of an extension cable
to US standard should be fairly straight forward and not require
incompatible changes to your trailer wiring.

I was lucky enough to get a good quality extension from Towsure.

I think its Maypole brand but beware - either Maypole source their items
from a variety of (Chinese?) sources which are very variable in quality
or there are Maypole-branded forgeries about. As I said, my extension is
excellent, but I've also seen Maypole extensions from Amazon shops that
had obviously lower quality plugs and which took a set the first time
they were extended, even though this was to considerably less than the
advertised maximum length.


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