Random chime when towing with no indicator
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Tuned
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Random chime when towing with no indicator
Been trying to nail this down for months now. When I have my dump trailer selected (conventional tow, electric brakes etc), I keep getting a random chime while driving with no notifications, indicator lights, or any visual indication of any sort. The timing is random - Sometimes it's minutes between, sometimes it will ding again right away. So far it seems like if I switch back to "default" trailer, it actually quits doing it which leads me to believe it's not actually something with the trailer. Mostly this is annoying because there's no indication as to why it's happening. Any ideas?
Lead Driver
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From: Kaysville Utah
Is it the low clearance warning that you have a bridge coming up ahead of you. If you didn't put a trailer height in. It pretty much dings every bridge you go under. Even 16' tall clearance bridges. It was driving me crazy.
Cross-Country
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Yes, it is this. There is a warning in the display screen on mine and I haven't found a way to turn it off.
Tuned
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It shows the warning on the top of the 12 inch for a few seconds on clearance restrictions / overpasses. I fought with mine for a while think it’s solved hard to find but it’s a selector for “optimized routing” need to switch that to off.
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More than likely an intermittent fault with the trailer plug or wiring. There is always a slight delay from the bing to when it pops a screen. If the issue resolves at the sound of the tone, no screen is shown.
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Where is this setting at, and how do you input trailer height? My FIL just bought a '23, and we all hitched up our trailers for a weekend vacation...his truck was giving him this warning for EVERY overpass. I'd like to either disable it for him OR show him how to input the trailer's height so it only warns when there's something actually close to height.
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Been trying to nail this down for months now. When I have my dump trailer selected (conventional tow, electric brakes etc), I keep getting a random chime while driving with no notifications, indicator lights, or any visual indication of any sort. The timing is random - Sometimes it's minutes between, sometimes it will ding again right away. So far it seems like if I switch back to "default" trailer, it actually quits doing it which leads me to believe it's not actually something with the trailer. Mostly this is annoying because there's no indication as to why it's happening. Any ideas?
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Joined: Jun 2023
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From: SE Michigan
Been trying to nail this down for months now. When I have my dump trailer selected (conventional tow, electric brakes etc), I keep getting a random chime while driving with no notifications, indicator lights, or any visual indication of any sort. The timing is random - Sometimes it's minutes between, sometimes it will ding again right away. So far it seems like if I switch back to "default" trailer, it actually quits doing it which leads me to believe it's not actually something with the trailer. Mostly this is annoying because there's no indication as to why it's happening. Any ideas?
I posted on this a few months ago... when you are in Tow/Haul mode, your truck Navigation system provides indications of upcoming bridges with height restrictions, roads with weight restrictions, and probably some other alerts which I've not yet seen.
Now, for the frustrating part... if you've entered your trailer height and trailer weight into the Enhanced Trailer Navigation settings... you'll still get ALL of these annoying chimes. Those should TURN OFF once that info is entered, and hopefully that OTA update is on the way, right Ford?!?! (certainly does not Meet Design Intent, Meet Customer Intent, or whatever acronym explains away an AIMS issue these days).
Now, it WILL give you a very large warning if you start down a road with a height restriction that your trailer will not fit under, I can tell you that for sure, as I experienced it once. But the annoying chimes need to go away. My wife stopped counting at 50 during our last camping trip.
Tuned
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I hooked a very small utility trailer to my new 23 350 and I was on a farm road with no bridges within 20 miles and I got the ding and saw a message box pop up on my dash for a fraction of a second, not enough time to read what it said. It only happened one time in the 20 miles I towed it.
Tuned
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Where is this setting at, and how do you input trailer height? My FIL just bought a '23, and we all hitched up our trailers for a weekend vacation...his truck was giving him this warning for EVERY overpass. I'd like to either disable it for him OR show him how to input the trailer's height so it only warns when there's something actually close to height.
I also set my trailer to default not sure if this helped but pulling a flat deck it doesn’t seem to warn me any more.
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