Bike Rack installed on 6th gen - post your setups

[vready]

Here's a look at my setup. This is the 1Up Super Duty rack with two trays. I encountered the same issue with the security lock being too short for the double-walled design of the 4Runner hitch receiver. 1Up is sending me one of the bike locks as others have described.

 

[vready]

And like others, I'm getting the message, "Trailer detected. Please Confirm" with the rack installed, and then the Pre-Collision system is randomly braking when I back up. Not great...

Toyota definitely needs to add a "Bike Rack" mode that temporarily disables these features.

 

[timelapse]

And like others, I'm getting the message, "Trailer detected. Please Confirm" with the rack installed, and then the Pre-Collision system is randomly braking when I back up. Not great...

Toyota definitely needs to add a "Bike Rack" mode that temporarily disables these features.

Looks great. This makes me miss my silver 5th gen. It was so easy to keep clean! I went black on the 6th gen to save $4k, but it scratches looking at it.

Disable PKSB to prevent the back up braking. That setting will save until you choose to turn it back on.

As for auto trailer detection being super glitchy, you can’t turn it off. Well, you can, but it will re-enable on the next ignition cycle.

 

[time2playandy]

When you’re wired into the tow harness, does it eliminate the auto trailer detection?

No. It still comes on in both 4 pin and 7 pin connections. Frustrating!

 

[xman76]

Hhmm... I mounted my old Yakima bike rack yesterday and I am not getting any warnings.

 

[brumey]

Hhmm... I mounted my old Yakima bike rack yesterday and I am not getting any warnings.

I am not sure that the SR5 has the safety features that cause the alerts so you should be good. Others may confirm my thoughts as I have not got my rack fitted yet.

 

[timelapse]

Hhmm... I mounted my old Yakima bike rack yesterday and I am not getting any warnings.

Give it time. You might have to do a little more driving with your bikes mounted for the auto detect to function.

 

[timelapse]

I am not sure that the SR5 has the safety features that cause the alerts so you should be good. Others may confirm my thoughts as I have not got my rack fitted yet.

I believe someone else already confirmed they are getting the auto trailer detect with SR5

 

[time2playandy]

I am getting the trailer detection notice on my SR5. The good news is once I take the rack off it clears after a short drive. Also, there doesn’t seem to be any negative effect as far as backing up or brakes being applied by the computer. Just the annoying message,

 

[xman76]

Have been driving with the bike rack for some days and I am still not getting the notice. Here is a pic of it:

 

[dilirunner]

I installed the Thule Epos 3 bike rack with light kit. Works perfectly for e-bike, mtb and kids bikes.

I have ORP with tow package, I did not get a prompt “do you have trailer?”. I am using the 4-pin connector for light kit — it does not automatically trigger trailer detection.

Parking sensors do beep on R, but they are way less annoying than what it is like on my Land Rover. I do appreciate the dedicated button on Land Rover to turn off warning sounds (per reverse gear engagement). I read in the manual you can mute it on the 4Runner. Still haven’t quite figured that out.

The automated braking was so annoying and thanks to this thread I turned PKSB off. Fine now.