Thread: Genuine Land Rover Towbar coupling too low

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

Thanks Graeme, I might take a wonder over to ARB head office and see what that have for me.

I intend to fit a reverse camera just above the ball. I just need to work out a switching system to switch from one reverse camera to another.
The head unit I have coming has aux so might see if I can rig up a camera to just for the ball shots.

I hooked up the boat trailer which has LED lights, all lights work, but i did notice a very faint on an off twinkle coming from the left side lights, not enough to fully illuminate the lights but there seems to be very low voltage feeding them.
I must have a wiring problem on the trailer plug wiring?/?
Do the L322s go ok with leds on trailers?

I think your twinkling lights are the ECU looking for a trailer by sensing a load on the indicator circuits. As they're LED it's not picking up the load.
There's some very expensive boxes that rectify this. There also looks like some cheaper fixes by adding resistors in parallel to the LED indicators to increase the load.

Cheers,

Salty

Originally Posted by SaltyNalty

I think your twinkling lights are the ECU looking for a trailer by sensing a load on the indicator circuits. As they're LED it's not picking up the load.
There's some very expensive boxes that rectify this. There also looks like some cheaper fixes by adding resistors in parallel to the LED indicators to increase the load.

Cheers,

Salty

Thanks Salty , more things to do LOL.
Will have to find a tutorial on this.
Cheers, Mario

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

Thanks Salty , more things to do LOL.
Will have to find a tutorial on this.
Cheers, Mario

This is a big thread but all the information about brake controllers and lights is in there.
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/showthread.php't=97935

Cheers,

Salty

you may be able to run the led's via a relay so the ecu reads a normal voltage at the relay. just thinking..
Love the car.
Cheers, Phil

I just got these http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/321949629168.

Going to put them accross the pos and neg connections at the indicators of the trailer.

I'll let you know how it goes.

Cheers,

Salty

So I've installed the resistors and all functions now work. I had to tap in to the reverse wire in the left hand rear space and cut the rear trailer fog light wire and connect them to get the reverse lights on the trailer to work.
The twinkling however persists, which if I'd read this thread earlier I would know that my D3 needs relays to filter the twinkling. So that's the next task.

Cheers,

Salty