Trailer Stability Control

[howells]

I am due to collect my new Skoda Octavia L&K Estate car next week. I ordered it with towbar and full electrics, but the dealer is having this fitted by a local 'specialist' company.

 

I am concerned to ensure the electrics have full function - particularly Trailer Stability Control function. The dealer has specifically asked the 'fitters', and they say it will have this function. However, is there any way of easily checking this when I have collected the car?

 

Thanks, Mike.

[jbyrnes82]

if you have lane assist which i would guess the l & k does ensure they code the trailer control module correctly as the company that fitted mine didn't and couldn't work it on there general coding device, had to get a kind person with vcds to sort it for me.

[marcusthehat]

I would specifically ask IF they are using the Skoda wiring kit, and Skoda protolcols/methods, and not the rather more common "specialist" bypass relay kit by the likes of Ryder(and absolutly no knife into Ryder kit, as long as one is aware that that is what one was paid for)

Since in 2010 I bought a new Skoda from a local dealer, paid the agreed price for what I understood to be Skoda kit, and then blew a gasket when I found the absolutly stinking ****-poor wiring job with a "buckshee" kit, by the local "specialist".

In a brand new cash paid car from a franschised dealer.

Not until I left the car on their forecourt and drove away in another vehicle, after making it clear the car was staying there until it had the Skoda kit properly fitted, was the matter rectified, with very poor grace and additional cost to myself(which I subsequently regretted paying)

good luck

marcus

[MrAdamwood]

I am due to collect my new Skoda Octavia L&K Estate car next week. I ordered it with towbar and full electrics, but the dealer is having this fitted by a local 'specialist' company.

 

I am concerned to ensure the electrics have full function - particularly Trailer Stability Control function. The dealer has specifically asked the 'fitters', and they say it will have this function. However, is there any way of easily checking this when I have collected the car?

 

Thanks, Mike.

Is this a new order? If so how come it's not being factory fitted?

[the rooster]

Marcus, not sure if all would understand the word "buckshee".

Dealer was possibly Mulhollands?

 

And as MrAdamwood has asked, if a new order why not factory fitted. My VRS order in Jan was specced with factory fit tow bar with adapter @ £458.33 + vat less discount.

 

Edited 23 February, 2016 by the rooster

[marcusthehat]

Taken "in context" they should have understood "buckshee", it was actually a Ryder kit, but i did not wish to disparage the apparently reputable brand in any way.

Dealer was Howard Abrahms in Lurgan, hell roast them!

cheers

M

[howells]

This is a new order - placed on 6th November. The towbar/electrics was supposed to be Factory Fitted, but the dealer said that the Skoda ordering system wouldn't accept that option. I can't see that the salesman had anything to gain by not specifying this on the order - it just seems to make life more difficult for him!

 

Anyway, the question still stands - how can I check that the trailer stability function is enabled? All I can come up with is check what I can (i.e. the car recognises that a 'trailer' is attached and turns on the dashboard turn signal, and turns off the reversing sensors, car fogs, etc.) then all is probably well. Other thoughts are welcome, particularly if there is a definitive way of checking!

 

Mike.

[andyvee]

This is a new order - placed on 6th November. The towbar/electrics was supposed to be Factory Fitted, but the dealer said that the Skoda ordering system wouldn't accept that option. I can't see that the salesman had anything to gain by not specifying this on the order - it just seems to make life more difficult for him!

Anyway, the question still stands - how can I check that the trailer stability function is enabled? All I can come up with is check what I can (i.e. the car recognises that a 'trailer' is attached and turns on the dashboard turn signal, and turns off the reversing sensors, car fogs, etc.) then all is probably well. Other thoughts are welcome, particularly if there is a definitive way of checking!

Mike.

Dealer is making a quick buck here. You ordered a car with a factory option that costs £450 ish. They pay a local fitter £350 for a non genuine towbar and wiring kit ........

Insist it is the genuine Skoda towbar and wiring kit that is fitted and not an aftermarket. That is what you ordered and what they are contracted to supply. It can be easily checked with VCDS for the part number of the trailer module

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[andyvee]

A quick way of checking is attach a trailer board and lock the car. Wait 10 minutes then disconnect the trailer board and the car alarm will go off.

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[VAGner]

It can be easily checked with VCDS for the part number of the trailer module 

 

Hi! You can easily check it here:

http://etka.cc/skoda/main_group/markt/CZ/modell/OCT/year/2016/hauptgruppen/1234567890/drive_standart/753

[andyvee]

Hi! You can easily check it here:

http://etka.cc/skoda/main_group/markt/CZ/modell/OCT/year/2016/hauptgruppen/1234567890/drive_standart/753

It won't be factory fit?

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[themanwithnoaim]

No,no,no

Factory fit only, it wasn't available when I ordered but, anything else on a factory build would be folish

[andyvee]

Problem is the OP ordered factory fit and the dealer is pulling a fast one

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[themanwithnoaim]

Tell the dealer it's not acceptable, you want what you've ordered. My O2 I brought secondhand then got a dealership's service desk to fit a detachable towbar only to be told, it already had a towbar fitted I just didn't have the actual towbar.

When I asked the selling dealership for the towbar, I was told "it wasn't a Skoda towbar therefore, we threw it away as we can't sell it without it being a Skoda towbar"

Learn my lesson

Regards

T