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17/8/2014 at 8:08am
Location: Warwickshire
Outfit: Swift Challenger
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Set out yesterday morning to pickup our Conway Crusader from Northampton. Sorted everything out, how to erect & fold away, hooked up to the car..(Citroen C5 Est) side lights ok, indicators ok, brakes NO!.
Checked the trailer, all working, problem was with the car. The guys at Northampton did their best, checked the socket and the wiring all seemed spot on.
We've only had the car 3 weeks or so, it came fitted with a towbar, great I thought but when I took a closer look I started to have my doubts. It was very well made I have to say, but I think it's "home made". Now from what I can make out from looking online it's illegal, in the past I've made the odd towbar myself and fitted it, then sorted the wiring and it's always worked first time.
I suggest to one of the guys that I was willing to splice a cable from the rear brake lights to the FC so we could at least take it home, no wasted journey that way and then sort the problem at home. The one guy then told me a bit about modern car electrics...I know todays cars have moved on but bl**dy hell, all I want to do is plug in and drive away.
I know all about EMS, these computers that do this & that while your driving, but after a couple of hours yesterday reading up on "Dedicated electrics" "multiplexed" and "CAN-Bus" systems, I think it's time to give up.
As the towbar on the car is probably illegal I think the only way out of this quagmire is to have it removed and a branded one fitted. Now you would think that's the easy part.....think again...there's only a limited number of bars that fit an 09 plate Citroen C5.
The Witter site states "no bars for this model" yet on the PF Jones site their selling Witter bars for the said car. So I'll give Jones a call tomorrow and see if they can fix this problem, all we want to do is go away for the Bank holls....
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17/8/2014 at 9:56am
Location: Manchester
Outfit: Pennine Countryman
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We had lots of problems with our first tow bar. OH has a company car, but they said to get it fitted ourselves. We used a reputable fitter but it still didn't work properly, and in time caused problems with the cars electrics. Skoda wouldn't touch it and said it invalidated the warranty so we ended up paying as much again to an auto electrician to sort it out. I don't know exactly what they did, but I do know they finished up by updating the cars computer system, which the original installer hadn't done. They were very good, also independent, and if they fitted towbars I'd go back to them, but they specialise in electrics!
When he was due to change he insisted that they supply it complete with towbar and we've had no problems. In future I'd always start with the main dealer. Getting a price doesn't commit you in any way, you can still go elsewhere, but they should know what they're doing with your model of car and it might be worth paying a bit more for that certainty.
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All the best,
Alison
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