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16/9/2024 at 3:50pm
Location: London
Outfit: Lunar Cosmos 524
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Sign of the times!
Long gone are the days of simply splicing into existing car wiring to power a towbar socket (who remembers the crimped on blue 3M, Scotchlock Tap Splice Connector!), and 'fault finding' was no more complicated than checking basic electrical connections.
These days you've got the electrical connections handled by an electronic interface box, which can have it's own faults and failures, and integration into the car's electronic 'brain' to change how it manages systems when the trailer is connected, which may or may not have been done properly allowing it to 'talk' to the electronic interface box correctly!
If anything, I'm surprised more people don't have problems!
I had my towbar fitted as a 'factory option', it's nothing of the sort of course and NOT fitted during manufacture, it'll have been fitted at the supplying dealers by a contractor! But figured everyone involved should know what they were doing, and any problems were FULLY the responsibility of the dealer and covered by manufacturers warranty! I may have paid a bit over the odds, but no risk of me stuck in the middle of the buck passing between 3rd party fitter and dealer/manufacturer if problems!
Of course, no one had a clue about how fully wired and what functions I would or wouldn't have when I enquired before ordering, and there were no 'basic' or 'full' options to help ensure I got the fully wired version! I had to gamble that it was the required 'fully' connected job! It was, and it's behaved itself so far - for 7 years!
Let's hope that you're all sorted now Geoff48.
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