I know this has been discussed here. Now that I have my truck, I cannot find the posts instructing how to turn the tow/haul mode off.

I disconnected my trailer, and it continues to rack up "tow miles".

Help?

 

You have to go into trailer options and select no trailer.

 

When I disconnect my trailer the truck tells me it's been disconnected.

 

Go to trailer options, "select trailer", and pick "no active trailer"

 

Oh yeah, that worked. Thank you!

Now back to studying the manual. So much to consume....

 

Was something changed on the trucks that the miles don't stop when the trailer is disconnected?
The 2011-2016 only show miles when connected.

 

*Some of us* experience this problem. The 2011-2016 trucks worked fine...disconnect trailer plug, and no more miles rack up. Some 2017's work the exact same way, and some continue to default to the towing screen and accumulate miles even when your trailer is physically disconnected.

I was under the assumption that all 2017's operate in the manner where you have to manually deselect the trailer after each time you tow...but I'm told this is not the case. So far, EpicCowlick has told me his works "normally" but my truck works "improperly" like Capt. Ted's. We have also wondered if it was an early build thing. Capt Ted, when was your truck built? (Its on the door sticker if you don't know). Mine was 9/16.

 

My F-350 works the same as EpicCowlick. No need to manually disconnect the trailer on the screen. Sounds like a software issue to me.

 

I started doubting myself and hooked up the trailer to confirm. Sequence is

• plug in trailer gives Bilndspot warning and then Trailer Information screen shows the last trailer I used as selected. From there I can select different trailer if needed.
• Unplug trailer gives Trailer Disconnected warning. When acknowledged immediately goes to Towing tab Towing Information screen No Active Trailer.
• When I go to select trailer I get my list of trailers but No Active Trailer is on top and selected.

All of my trailers have appropriate mileage since I set them all up so I know none of them are accumulating miles when unhooked. Call it confirmed. Some trucks are working as they should and others are not releasing the trailer when disconnected.

 

When you guys hooked up trailers for the first time, did all electrical work properly especially with the Brake controller? I will be hooking up for the fist time in Aug and curious if anyone had any issues.

 

Can you enter the mileage for a trailer on set up?

 

Mine works properly, but I typically have the truck running when I connect/disconnect since I'm backing under or pulling away from my fiver. Wonder if it matters if the truck is running or not...

 

I think you can. I didn't, but I believe I saw a spot to do that.

 

No way to set mileage on a trailer. You can reset it to zero at any time though.

 

My truck was built on 3/29/17. I picked it up with my empty, triple axle boat trailer attached on Saturday, 4/22. We spent 45 minutes trying to figure out why the tow/haul mode would display the six tires, but no digits! The tech guys were no where to found, just me and the salesman. Then, it dawned us, the wheels needed to be rolling. Perfection, I should have taken a picture, I had six tires displayed at 68, 69, or 70 PSI once on the road. I was too enamoured with the rest of the truck to think of taking the picture. The trailer went right to storage until this fall. I know, it didn't happen...no picture. The camera in the back of the trailer worked awesome also. However, trying to use the camera instead of my mirrors, was a fail. Just use it to make sure your not running over a bicycle or something, and back using the wonderful extended mirrors.

Then, I knew to watch for the tow/haul/mileage mode to continue after unhooking the trailer, which it did continue, racking up miles, and defaulting to the tow/haul screen. I thought there was more to getting out of that, than there was. I was just looking in the wrong spot to "disengage".