Well I got my towbar (Bosal vertical detachable) and fitted it to my car no problems and very little cutting of the sport bumper required certainly nothing that is visible. Then after a good bit of thought I decided to get the genuine LR wiring kit which was a doddle to fit, now for what I thought was the easy bit (getting the car programmed for it as nothing was working yet). Called around and LR were unable to do it for a week so went with a towbar place that said "oh aye that shouldn't be a problem" they tried and there equipment didn't do the job I now only have brake lights on the trailer. But now comes the bigger problem after they monkeyed about with a meter and several sporadic faults coming up on my dash my parking sensors now don't work! Grr and to top it off the guy was a total and I ended up having to pay for him for the pleasure.

If I turn the car on and emediatly put the car in reverse the sensors work briefly but then fail. Button light flashes and the long beep happens. I have checked all the sensors and they look fine and are seated correctly all fuses are ok. I will try disconnecting the battery tomorrow and reconnecting it, if that doesn't work i will pop down to my local garage and get them to read the faults hopefully it will just need cleared! Everything worked fine before I went to that place now I'm out of pocket and raging never again! car is now booked into LR next week to get programmed correctly fingers crossed they can . Regards

Alan

Sounds like car thinks trailer is attached so rear sensors disabled. Will be fine when module flashed by LR tech 2014 SE Loire Blue SD4 Auto (MY15)
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I thought this too but according to the manual the flashing light on the parking sensor button and long beep after car starts means there is a fault. Is this the same procedure the car does if there is towbar electrics plugged in? Regards

Alan

If Trailer module has been activated and trailer is attached when indicator is used the small trailer symbol on cluster will flash.
What electric kit do you have? (13 pin or 7 Pin)


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In answer to Alan's question - No - if trailer plugged in the PDC is silent and you get a trailer icon lit on the dash when you operate the indicators 10MY (Sept 09) TD4 HSE Auto in Stornoway Grey (Now Gone)

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It's the 13 pin electrics I have yeah the wee symbol on the dash isn't coming on at all. Thank you dunkley201 that was my suspicion. I'm hopeful that once LR put their programme into the module it will all work but I suspect they have created a fault with my parking sensors now. Regards

Alan

When I stripped the electrics from my previous car - without having it 'unprogrammed' - the car demonstrated exactly the same symptoms with the parking sensors.

You might like to re-check that the three fuses are in the right places as that is about the only bit of the electrics fitting that is open to error.

HappyNomad i was hoping you would read my post saw that you had a similar fault in a previous post lol, I've already checked the fuses are correct and also swapped them for replacements even though they looked fine. What was that cured yours once the electrics were removed? Regards

Alan

Mine was a bit opposite really in that having removed the wiring I then also removed the two 15A fuses and the little relay. The car was then left looking for a piece of kit that no longer existed.

Although I considered getting the car re-programmed, in the end I didn't bother. It was traded in very soon after at a Land Rover dealership (hence the removal of the towbar etc). Having been told that my car would go on their forecourt I Left it for them to do as part of their PDI. I am 100% confident that that was all that was needed.

Yours sound very similar in that it doesn't appear to be seeing the trailer module. Perhaps a faulty module or just a failed attempt to enable it.

Either way, worry not. Your LR dealer or a reputable indie, (probably less drama and cost, see recent post by choccymonster), should soon have it sorted for you.

HappyNomad thank you fingers crossed that is all that is required, I have found today a indie garage nearby that have the diagnostic equipment for Landrover as they do all the SSE Landrovers so hoping to get it in there soon to get looked at as you say will be cheaper than LR. Regards

Alan

You should have no bother with a reputable indie.

Mine did it in about 60 seconds with their AutoLogic box of tricks - all for a couple of beer tokens.

If you end up with a indie with AutoLogic, you need to go into the section marked "Car Configuration Editor". Which sounds scary, but isn't.

It downloads the current config of your car, allows you add "stuff" like the trailer electrics and configure how the fog lights work when the trailer is hitched, and then re-upload back to the car.

Most of the 60 seconds my indie took was figuring that bit out. It wasn't intuitive on the AutoLogic box as there were other sections with names relating to "Trailers" which we discovered were more to do with diagnostics AFTER you'd had the trailer electrics enabled.

Good luck!!

A wee update so far put the car to my local garage who have just got a new fancy diagnostic kit, after reading the faults it appears the rear of the car has lost communication with the front I'm guessing that this was caused when they were probing around with their meter. They cleared the faults and the 2 that remain are that the towbar module has incorrect programming and a parking sensor fault he is fairly confident/hopeful that with the correct programme in the towbar module the parking sensors should sort themselves out. Going to LR in the morning so hopefully they can update the programming in the towbar module. Regards

Alan

Just back home from LR and all is good towbar electrics work as they should and the parking sensors are working again one happy boy again. thanks for all the help folks was great to get the advice and support. Regards

Alan