Tow Miles
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Tow Miles
Question for the towing wizards: I thought I read that when you plug in a trailer that the dash computer keeps track of the tow miles. I have been through the manual and did not see anything under the towing section about it. If this is true does it work on gasser models and any trim level? And does it work on both the seven way plug and the flat floor plug? Who knows, maybe I just dreamed this.
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This is correct. My truck is the 6.2 XLT and has this option. Just keep in mind that you must go in the trailer settings after done towing and select no trailer connected or it will continue to log miles as towing.
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Trailer Tow Miles
Question for the towing wizards: I thought I read that when you plug in a trailer that the dash computer keeps track of the tow miles. I have been through the manual and did not see anything under the towing section about it. If this is true does it work on gasser models and any trim level? And does it work on both the seven way plug and the flat floor plug? Who knows, maybe I just dreamed this.
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Haven't had to do that. Mine's only logging miles while connected.
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I was always thinking that this was odd thing to have to do. Something must not be setup correctly then with my truck. Does your truck notify you of the trailer plug being disconnect? Or just show no trailer connected?
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Now you've got me thinking. Once or twice it showed the trailer after I disconnected but I had left the engine running. I just got back from a trip yesterday and shut off the engine while disconnecting. When I restarted there was no trailer showing.
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Thanks for the replies. When you connect or disconnect trailer, must the truck ignition be turned on or engine running?
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Correct...because you apparently only pull one trailer. If you have multiple trailers, it will default to the last trailer pulled.
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Unplug while the truck is running after you have touched the brake. This will help ensure the truck recognizes no trailer is connected. If you shot the truck down without disconnecting. Then return to the truck later, start it and disconnect it may not recognize no trailer connected since you didn’t hit the brake first.
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From: Bulverde
I thought I had seen messages for connecting and disconnecting the trailer, I have 2 of them set up. Of course, I could be imagining this since there’s so many other d@mn messages about the door being open, the key fob not being in the truck, not in park, blah, blah. Haven’t had to do anything other than set up the trailers to get the towing miles to register correctly. 2019 F-250 Plat.
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I pull an ATV trailer which is a flat 4-way plug and also haul my slide in truck camper, which has a 7-way plug between the truck and camper. My truck recognizes both of them, but not together when I am hauling/towing both. I have to pick one or the other. I have both my trailer and camper set up to choose from and when I am using both at the same time, I always choose the camper, mainly just to know how many life to date miles I have driven with the camper on the truck.
I like it and think it is a nice feature to have.
I like it and think it is a nice feature to have.
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On my '12 i did not have to "deselect" the trailer to get it to stop logging the miles, but I did notice the other day that the truck was logging miles on one of my trailers and I was disconnected.
Not sure if it was a fluke or not but something i'll have to watch now.. yes it does alert me when the trailer has been disconnected or when it has been connected, and I do choose from multiple trailers.
Love the feature as it helps me track the mileage on each of my trailers for PM
Not sure if it was a fluke or not but something i'll have to watch now.. yes it does alert me when the trailer has been disconnected or when it has been connected, and I do choose from multiple trailers.
Love the feature as it helps me track the mileage on each of my trailers for PM
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It's buggy.
Sometimes it deselects and sometimes it doesn't. We have nearly 9k miles towing and I just go in and manually deselect it now after unhitching by default. Always hitch and unhitch with the engine on ...it's just buggy.
And yes - it does work with the 4pin. I've got a "uhaul" trailer setup for the times we use those and it's accumulated over 1000 miles on it with various uhauls..
Sometimes it deselects and sometimes it doesn't. We have nearly 9k miles towing and I just go in and manually deselect it now after unhitching by default. Always hitch and unhitch with the engine on ...it's just buggy.
And yes - it does work with the 4pin. I've got a "uhaul" trailer setup for the times we use those and it's accumulated over 1000 miles on it with various uhauls..