No trailer connected but range still adjusted (as if trailer was connected) each time truck turns on.

[dirtdiver]

8500 miles and no glitches. Now a small glitch. I used a trailer a week ago and been driving the truck since then. Long after trailer taken off still getting the message at each start, "Range adjusted due to trailer connected" or something, even though no trailer connected. Any ideas? I reset the menu item EV driving history.

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[The Weatherman]

Check in the Towing Tile that you have selected No Trailer Attached.

 

[xycarp]

Check in the Towing Tile that you have selected No Trailer Attached.

This…. I had the same issue. It may only allowed you to actually select no-trailer when non moving. It had me stumped for a couple of days.

 

[hturnerfamily]

I had this issue for quite a while, several thousand miles, actually, after unhooking my camper. Ford could not tell me with the range calculator was stuck in 'trailer mode'.

I did a master reset of the truck, but nothing changed, although I started to realize after a while that the range indicator was not moving down as fast as what it should be while I was driving. It seemed that it thought I had a trailer attached, but the trailer was not causing the expected range 'impact' it calculated.

Eventually, thru doing nothing on my own, the range indicator finally started to show correct 'un-hooked trailer' numbers, and has not been an issue since. Don't know why, did nothing to make that happen other than to continue driving each day. It was certainly annoying for a long time, though.

 

[RickLightning]

Go in and select no trailer.

This gets posted very often.

 

[AnotherEVTrucker]

You have to explicitly select “no trailer” to make sure no trailers are active.

I swear it used to automatically figure out the trailer was disconnected.

.19,500 miles - this was the only “glitch” other than the air dam warnings for me.

 

[JOHNTORK]

8500 miles and no glitches. Now a small glitch. I used a trailer a week ago and been driving the truck since then. Long after trailer taken off still getting the message at each start, "Range adjusted due to trailer connected" or something, even though no trailer connected. Any ideas? I reset the menu item EV driving history.

On Towing Tile - Notice in Red - Default Trailer Selected. Clear this and you are good to go.

 

[Altivec]

The towing software is an abomination. The truck has the ability to understand when a trailer is connected and disconnected, yet Fords decisions are all over the place. If you disconnect a trailer, you get a warning that the trailer has been disconnected... great. That should be it. You hit ok and your active trailer should be no longer active, and tow/haul should go back to normal. Instead, you have to acknowledge it is disconnected, change your drive mode, go into the trailer app and make the trailer inactive; otherwise, as you noticed, the range is as if the trailer is still there.

If you don't disconnect your trailer, you get asked each time you start your truck, “Would you like to stay in tow haul?” which you have a few seconds to say yes or it reverts back to normal. (This is a safety hazard.) The truck knows there is a trailer attached; why would it default to normal? If you do happen to press okay in time to keep it in tow haul, then you are then greeted with more warnings: No blind spot, press ok. no cross talk, press okay. Then your center screen asks you if you still have a trailer on or if it's a different trailer. I never disconnected... Of course it's the same trailer. Why do I have to answer all these questions and get a trillion warnings every time I start the truck. Does Ford not know how many times a truck needs to get started and moved forward a couple feet in a work environment.

For the casual tow here and there, you can get by with this craziness even though it's not intuitive, obtrusive, and non-predictable. For us that use this as a work truck that are continuously dealing with this software, it’s downright annoying and frustrating. I would expect this from a startup company, not from Ford, who has a hundred years of data knowing how workers use their trailers. I can also understand that programmers that are making this stuff have no idea, BUT it's been over 4 years now since this has been out. Has no one at Ford, that knows work trucks experienced this and said, “ HEY!, this is not acceptable. Let's get it fixed.”

The Lightning is an amazing truck, but there are so many little things software-wise that can be easily fixed to make it great, but nobody at Ford seems to care.

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