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AutoPark needs to go away!

I just found about AutoPark the hard way about 2 hours ago.
I hooked up the camper to give it a jog down the feeder road with the new truck. Tows like a dream, BTW.

Funny thing is I know for sure that I was backing the truck up to the camper for initial hook up with the door open and seat belt not on. I do this for the last few inches of hitch positioning and the AutoPark did not stop me. FYI, I only moved a couple inches at most and I had the rear park sensors disabled to stop the beeping. Maybe that's what allowed me to backup without AutoPark engaging? Or maybe it was just the minuscule movements that I was allowed to do. So I did not experience any head scratching while hooking up. And cannot find anything in the manual that says disabling the reverse sensors or moving tiny amounts would not engage AutoPark.

It was not until after I put the camper back into the stall and tried to leave that AutoPark got me. I backed the trailer back into the tall, unhooked the trailer, pulled truck forward 10 ft, closed the stall doors, got back in the truck, pulled through the lot gates, put it in Park, got out to close the gates behind me. Got back in and I swear I closed the truck door because I was finally ready to drive off and back home. I shifted to D and took my foot off the brake and the truck lurched forward and then got slam stopped by the transmission. Again, I could not have been going 1 mph yet. And I swear the truck door was closed; maybe I took my foot off the brake before the trans actually shifted into D. I do recall it could have been simultaneous that I rolled the rotary shifter to D and I was taking my foot off the brake. But the manual does not say anything about releasing the brake too soon, or going over a certain speed with the door open; it just says AutoPark will only engage at speeds less than 1.2 mph.

Either way, I ordered a rigid seat belt extender to get back to my known way of doing things. I don't want to go around running errands and testing in every lot, or backing up and down my driveway Auto-slamming the truck into Park because I triggered a scenario it did not like....
 
matemike said:
I just found about AutoPark the hard way about 2 hours ago.
I hooked up the camper to give it a jog down the feeder road with the new truck. Tows like a dream, BTW.

Funny thing is I know for sure that I was backing the truck up to the camper for initial hook up with the door open and seat belt not on. I do this for the last few inches of hitch positioning and the AutoPark did not stop me. FYI, I only moved a couple inches at most and I had the rear park sensors disabled to stop the beeping. Maybe that's what allowed me to backup without AutoPark engaging? Or maybe it was just the minuscule movements that I was allowed to do. So I did not experience any head scratching while hooking up. And cannot find anything in the manual that says disabling the reverse sensors or moving tiny amounts would not engage AutoPark.

It was not until after I put the camper back into the stall and tried to leave that AutoPark got me. I backed the trailer back into the tall, unhooked the trailer, pulled truck forward 10 ft, closed the stall doors, got back in the truck, pulled through the lot gates, put it in Park, got out to close the gates behind me. Got back in and I swear I closed the truck door because I was finally ready to drive off and back home. I shifted to D and took my foot off the brake and the truck lurched forward and then got slam stopped by the transmission. Again, I could not have been going 1 mph yet. And I swear the truck door was closed; maybe I took my foot off the brake before the trans actually shifted into D. I do recall it could have been simultaneous that I rolled the rotary shifter to D and I was taking my foot off the brake. But the manual does not say anything about releasing the brake too soon, or going over a certain speed with the door open; it just says AutoPark will only engage at speeds less than 1.2 mph.

Either way, I ordered a rigid seat belt extender to get back to my known way of doing things. I don't want to go around running errands and testing in every lot, or backing up and down my driveway Auto-slamming the truck into Park because I triggered a scenario it did not like..
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What is the seat belt extender for? Doesn't just buckling the seat belt normally (with you not in it) work the same as if one uses an extender? I can't picture how an extender in this case works. (An ignorant question, not a snide one....:-) )
 
JimKIII said:
What is the seat belt extender for? Doesn't just buckling the seat belt normally (with you not in it) work the same as if one uses an extender? I can't picture how an extender in this case works. (An ignorant question, not a snide one....:) )
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You can leave the extender clipped always and just clip the belt to the extender when you go to use it just a lazy way of doing it really
 
I'll have to try this, I have my seat belt reminder turned off and haven't had this problem yet
 
JimKIII said:
What is the seat belt extender for? Doesn't just buckling the seat belt normally (with you not in it) work the same as if one uses an extender? I can't picture how an extender in this case works. (An ignorant question, not a snide one....:) )
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Icky said:
I'll have to try this, I have my seat belt reminder turned off and haven't had this problem yet
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Sooo, how do you turn off the seat belt reminder?
 
Did anyone try disconnecting the wire at the base of the seat belt so it doesn't know that it's unbuckled
 
Poolmonkey said:
I do or used to when hooking up the trailer by myself…back it up a few or a couple by looking at the ground. Head out the window, now.
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Every truck has a back up cam so why not use the tools that come with the truck? I mean you paid for em may as well use em…
 
H3LZSN1P3R said:
Every truck has a back up cam so why not use the tools that come with the truck? I mean you paid for em may as well use em…
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Can never get it perfect with that camera, usually takes some fine tuning after it gets me close. That camera is pretty sweet, makes hooking up nice especially when she is helping. Know what I mean?…trouble free, yep.
 
When I’m backing the camper into a tight spot, especially when the golf cart is in the bed, I open the door so I can see better. Im just not as good of a driver as those who don’t need to do that. Congratulations to them.

I have a seatbelt extender to bypass the auto park. I happened to already have one I had bought when I put a suspension seat on my zero turn mower and needed extra length.

I think the rotary shifter is a bad idea. I dislike it. But if you’re forced to have the thing then the auto park feature is probably good to have for many. But they should have just stuck with the column shifter.
 
slowindown said:
When I’m backing the camper into a tight spot, especially when the golf cart is in the bed, I open the door so I can see better. Im just not as good of a driver as those who don’t need to do that. Congratulations to them.

I have a seatbelt extender to bypass the auto park. I happened to already have one I had bought when I put a suspension seat on my zero turn mower and needed extra length.

I think the rotary shifter is a bad idea. I dislike it. But if you’re forced to have the thing then the auto park feature is probably good to have for many. But they should have just stuck with the column shifter.
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Learn to use mirrors.
 
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