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Can’t help with the area, but if you ensure that a VSK (Vehicle Specific Kit) install is used, then parking sensors will be accommodated for, along with disabling of “Stop Start” whilst towing, also car alarm integration with the unit being towed will be included.
The new electrics may need to be coded to the cars ECU (computer) as towing in operation will be displayed on the cars infotainment system.
All clever stuff, and certainly avoid a cheap install that does not use a VSK, but uses a relay and a fist full of scotch locks, to save on any future warranty issues.
I would always advise go for the Single 13 pin socket set up, rather than twin 7 pin sockets, whether it be a caravan or trailer that you are towing.
In fact if your just towing a trailer, you only need 7 pins wired into the 13 pin socket, which would save a little money on the install, with a fully wired VSK system they will put a couple of 15amp fuses into the cars fuse box.
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Yep, for a fixed I guess you are looking at £500 tops today, I got the 18 plate Mk7? Golf done in February 2018 at Indespension Bolton for £350 Brink Fixed Swan Neck fully wired 13pin VSK, and that was mates rates as I knew someone that worked there.
I was not to know, but my firm later lost the contract for my team, and we were all (7 off us) TUPED over to another firm, so I lost the Golf August 2018, to say I was gutted would be an understatement having only been able to use the tow bar once, albeit for our three week annual holiday to the South of France Grrrrr.
And I have not had a tow bar fitted since, as the new firm folded at the start of 2020, and we were yet again TUPED over to another firm, although there are only five of us in the team now.
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