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Atlee
Explorer II
May 25, 2016

Truck goes in Thursday to fix a "phantom" trailer situation.

My truck recognizes a trailer is connected when the umbilical cord from the trailer is plugged into the truck. Unfortunately, right now, it's getting a phantom signal that a trailer is hooked up, a...
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Atlee
Explorer II
May 26, 2016
My truck always recognized there was no trailer hooked up.

Most of the time the dash display would tell me if it were disconnected.

pfidahospud wrote:
My 2016 F150 automatically recognizes when an umbilical cord is plugged in, but doesn't "unrecognize" when it's unplugged. Under the "towing" settings on the dash, I have to unselect the trailer manually. I thought this was normal - but maybe not?

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