Blind Spot Trailer Monitoring

[pwarren]

Brand new 2500 Cummins Limited. Can’t locate the Trailer blind spot monitoring. If I have the trailer towing package I should have the feature, correct? Can’t locate in vehicle settings after trailer is plugged in. Any thoughts out there? Seem to have everything else

 

[Brutal_HO]

Do you have the option in the trailer settings menu on the radio?

There's an option to set it to auto or 39.5' max.

 

[pwarren]

I don’t think so...I’ll double check. Weird as I have all the other menu settings on the dashboard—trailer brakes, etc. I’ll report back. Thanks!

 

[pwarren]

Don’t seem to have it. So strange...

 

[Brutal_HO]

I don't recall if it only comes in one of the group levels, like maybe the safety group?

Do you have Adaptive cruise (ACC), Forward collision warning (FCW), etc?

 

[Brutal_HO]

There are two distinct towing packages. One hardware, one software.

If you have surround view, you should have the trailer blind spot monitoring..

 

[g00fy]

Can someone confirm whether or not a truck with trailer blindspot monitoring has different hardware than a truck with standard blind spot monitoring? I would think it's the same hardware with different software settings, so I've been digging through alfaOBD to try and enable Trailer Blind Spot monitoring on my truck, but so far all i've been able to do is enable the menu option in my Uconnect, but it doesn't actually let me select anything in that menu.

 

[pwarren]

Thanks. I do have surround view. Going to check with dealer to see if I need a software add. More to come.

 

[carlrx7]

2020 models:

 

[pwarren]

Looks like it is 2020 only—I’m 2019 so don’t have it.

 

[pwarren]

Thanks for the help!

 

[Nick]

If you tow a 5th wheel it doesn't work anyway because the sensors are blocked

 

[Brutal_HO]

I've set my trailer to conventional and it kinda works and doesn't alarm or anything. I suspect with a dropframe (widebody) fifth, it might not be so happy. In either case, I don't trust it 100%.

 

[HORam]

Can someone confirm whether or not a truck with trailer blindspot monitoring has different hardware than a truck with standard blind spot monitoring? I would think it's the same hardware with different software settings, so I've been digging through alfaOBD to try and enable Trailer Blind Spot monitoring on my truck, but so far all i've been able to do is enable the menu option in my Uconnect, but it doesn't actually let me select anything in that menu.

Did anybody ever find out if it is possible to retrofit to a 19 with existing blis?

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[BroGo]

I've set my trailer to conventional and it kinda works and doesn't alarm or anything. I suspect with a dropframe (widebody) fifth, it might not be so happy. In either case, I don't trust it 100%.

It sounds like my truck will finally be at the dealership this week. I didn’t realize this feature wouldn’t work on a 5th wheel… kinda sucks. I’ll give setting it up as a conventional trailer a whirl and see how that works


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[JABAR357]

It sounds like my truck will finally be at the dealership this week. I didn’t realize this feature wouldn’t work on a 5th wheel… kinda sucks. I’ll give setting it up as a conventional trailer a whirl and see how that works


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I agree! I learned the same thing.

 

[Tlpollock]

It sounds like my truck will finally be at the dealership this week. I didn’t realize this feature wouldn’t work on a 5th wheel… kinda sucks. I’ll give setting it up as a conventional trailer a whirl and see how that works


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I did not know it didn’t work on 5th wheel ..

 

[BroGo]

Nope, confirmed it doesn’t work on 5th wheel. I chose “conventional trailer” to see how it would react and it was no bueno