Backing up with bike rack in the hitch

With my new TRD Off-road premium, truck hits the brakes in reverse with a bike rack in place on the hitch. At the gas station, had to fumble around the dash and thru settings to be able to back up. Turned off the parking sensor, but that wasn’t it, finally hit the RCD button, rear camera detection and the truck let me back up.

Sure wish there was a quicker way to disable this as I’ve almost always got a bike rack in the truck and will be pulling my teardrop often this summer. If you’ve got any more intel on this, lemme know!

 

I still don't get the auto rear braking on trucks for situations where you have a rack or a trailer back there. That isn't going to help you any. There should at least be a physical button so you can easily cancel the back up sensors and ARB.

Ford has a an icon to turn off the auto rear braking on the screen when the rear camera is on. Are there any icons on the screen when you shift into reverse?

 

When you hook a trailer up it will shut it off automatically when you plug the electrical.

 

If you have the tow/haul button just press that it disables those sensors and such on the rear and lets you back up without the braking.

 

Perfect. I knew there had to be a quick way to disable those sensors without going thru the menu every time. Thanks!

 

FWIW, this doesn’t work. Maybe if it senses a 4 or 7-pin plug in place it would disable the sensors. Time to slog thru the manual.

 

Great for using a trailer, but what about a bike rack…?

 

So, according to the manual, it is the PKSB, “Parking Support Brake”. It has to be disabled in the MID whenever needed. However, it it senses a 7-pin, it’ll auto disconnect.

 

Buy a 7 pin plug

 

It works when I back up to connect my trailer otherwise the truck hits the brakes and won’t let me back up enough to hook up. Im guessing you don’t have a bike rack with the built in lights on it to plug in.

 

I also found this….
• Auto Trailer Detection (ATD) Auto Trailer Detection (ATD) detects if a trailer is attached by using the Trailer Brake Controller (TBC) or the Blind Spot Monitor (BSM) sensors. • Trailers that use TBC can be detected by using the 7-pin trailer
brake connectors. • Other types of trailers can be
detected using the BSM sensors. •When a trailer is detected via BSM or TBC then RCTA, PKSB, and Intuitive parking assist functions will be disabled.
Enabling/Disabling the Parking Support Brake The Parking Support Brake function can be enabled/disabled through a customize setting. (→P.646) When the PKSB (Parking Support Brake) is disabled, the driving assist information indicator (→P.85) illuminates, and a message is displayed on the multi-information display. If the system switches to OFF (disabled) and the PKSB (Parking Support Brake) is stopped, the PKSB (Parking Support Brake) will not be re-enabled until ON (enabled) is selected again from the customize setting
(→P.646). (It remains off even if the engine switch is turned to ON again after the engine switch has been
turned off.)

 

Sounds like @mthopton needs to put some lights on the bike rack. The bikes probably block most of the tail lights anyway, so it’s best to do this.

What rack brand/model is it @mthopton ? I’ve added lights to both of my 1up racks with 4-pin connections and on my 2nd gen I use a 7-pin to 4-pin adapter.

 

Hm, you may need more than a 4-pin connection for lights on the rack then. You may need to simulate the TBC to get it to auto disable all the time without having to dig through menus and hitting buttons.

 

Thats a possibility however it does state once its off it remains off until reactivated even after the vehicle has been shut off and turned back on.

 

Nanny shit...

 

Yup, I’ve also got a 1Up. I was thinking a 7-pin to 4pin adapter plug might be the quick, easy answer. Will report back.

 

If you think of how many children needed to be run over and die for this to be a required feature of most/all new cars, it's pretty sad.

 

No children needed to die. Obviously you can not controll a childs every movement but at some point in life people including children need to learn how to walk and interact with vehicles so they can prevent getting ran over.

Everyone knows not to play on railroad tracks yet people are killed every year tress passing on RR tracks.

I didn't grow up with a driveway which probably shaped my child hood differently than a kid who grew up with a drive way. With a drive way I would have probably been less concerned with moving vehicles as I would have played in the drive way around parked cars.

Not having a driveway I had to learn how to cross the street respect vehicles in the road including parked vehicles and know that the driver isn't going to see someone three feet tall.

I suspect most accidents like this happen at home in the driveway with one parent behind the wheel and another parent or someone who could also have one eye on the child.

What's sad is people who don't watch and pay attention to their children at every moment. Easier said than done.

No camera or sensor is going to recognize a person if for what ever reason they decide to lay underneath the truck behind the rear axle, they will still be ran over if the driver shifts into reverse and backs up.

 

Not to derail this, but does your 1Up clear the tailgate on the new 2024? I'm looking at getting a super duty.

OP - note if you do turn off PKSB for the rack it comes up with a message every time you start the truck that the setting is off.

 

1Up clears the tailgate with a couple inches to spare when the shank of the 1Up is fully inserted and tailgate down.

PKSD just has to be turned off if you have the towing tech package.