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As the topic says - I have now the towbar fitter (original Westafalia by Skoda BG). As for the coding - I have my doubts everything is done correctly. Here's the checklist:

1) When I select reverse, there is no visual indication that i'm towing something (with Thule EuroWay G2 921 bike carrier fitted & connected (7-pin)) - NOK?

2) Again when on reverse, constant signal from the parking sensors that I'm about to hit something + relevant picture on Swing display. - NOK

3) The rear foglight is not operational when the bike carrier is connected - OK

4) The alarm goes off when carrier is disconnected

Any ideas if everything is OK or if not - what's wrong?

Sounds like half the coding was done. Over here the EXACT same happened when people did the coding at the dealer's. Fog OK, Alarm OK, everything else NO.

I took mine to a person with a VCDS laptop to have it fixed in the end.

Sounds like half the coding was done. Over here the EXACT same happened when people did the coding at the dealer's. Fog OK, Alarm OK, everything else NO.

I took mine to a person with a VCDS laptop to have it fixed in the end.

Dealer could not fix it after 3 attempts. I ended up going to see Gizmo as well. Top bloke.

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As I have a VCDS cable now, I'll try to fix it with remote support from Gizmo68 (many thanks!). I'm just amazed that no one else has this combination (Swing + Towbar, correctly coded).

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Many thanks to Gizmo68 for the help, after some tests with VCDS I decided to push Skoda BG to finish their work. Of course the mechanics there tried to explain me how they don't have Westfalia stand for testing the towbar (maybe I had to get them the stand), how they are not sure if with 13 to 7 pin converter the Yeti can understand that there is something attached behind it, and so on, and so on. Luckily a guy that was responsible for the translations of all documentation came, confirmed that it's not working as it's supposed to be, and with VAS5052 for under 2 minutes managed to code it correctly.

This is what I see now on the Swing display, when I have the bike carrier attached, and select reverse:

Swing_trailer1.jpg

And the carrier in question:

Bike_carrier.jpg

Sorry for the bad pictures, I can put better ones some other day.

So there you have a picture of the elusive combination of Swing radio + trailer attached ;)

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