Bleep - bleep - bleep

Gary1959
Gary1959 Forum Participant Posts: 16
edited December 2016 in Towcars & Towing #1

Hi all.

Before I go and trawl the interweb for hours, thought I'd throw this one the you all.

My new caravan won't disable the reversing sensors on my Freelander 2, so when reversing I get that really annoying bleep bleep bleeeeeeeeep. I can't disable the sensor on the dash. Dealer said it could be because the van has LED lights which don't have the resistance to instruct the car to turn them off. True or False.

Thanks all.

 

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  • Metheven
    Metheven Club Member Posts: 3,987 ✭✭✭
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    edited December 2016 #2

    Assume you have the CANBUS loom installed and not the Bypass relay. If it is pre 2013 it needs coding, if post 2013 the loom is just connected and that's it.

    If you can see the 'trailer' icon on the dash when indicating then it has sucessfully detected you have a trailer plugged in and will automatically disable the rear sensors, if you can't see the trailer icon then it hasn't detected the load.

  • Gary1959
    Gary1959 Forum Participant Posts: 16
    edited December 2016 #3

    Hi Dave FL2.

    I can see the trailer icon on the dash flashing when indicating. But it hasn't stopped the blessed bleep bleep. 😣

    Ta Gary.

  • Metheven
    Metheven Club Member Posts: 3,987 ✭✭✭
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    edited December 2016 #4

    As long as you have a CANBUS loom and the trailer icon it should turn off the sensors as it has detected the trailer plug.

    It should also turn off your cars rear fog lights automatically when hitched and reverse is selected, try this to see if the car is detecting the plug.

    You have the CANBUS loom I assume?, if it is a Smart relay then it won't turn them off.

    Forgot to ask, did it work OK on your previous caravan?

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