I know this topic was covered many times, however, I wasn't able to find an exact answer to my question.

I can get a towbar for a reasonable price from wreckers. My car is a 2008 SE model, and I was wondering:

1. What wiring do I need?
2. Somewhere on this forum, I read that the towbar electronics for my model need to be activated by the dealer, otherwise it won't work?
3. Can I remove the wiring from the wrecked car to use it on my or is it too complicated and better to buy a new one?

Any other tips would be appreciated.

Your JLR dealership should be able to look up using your VIN to indicate which wiring accessory you need for your car.

Then Id do a on-line search.

To my knowledge there have been at least 3 different add-on looms for the FL2 depending upon its MY, but Im talking UK spec here.
The earliest one was the most complicated to install and required dealer activation. The very last one was a simple plug-n-play system. Jules

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For example Island 4x4 indicate 4 different OEM wiring looms (inc relays & fuses as required)

https://www.island-4x4.co.uk/accessories-b..._3664.html Jules

This is a youtube video of how to fit the bar, not electrics.


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kris-p wrote:

I know this topic was covered many times, however, I wasn't able to find an exact answer to my question.

I can get a towbar for a reasonable price from wreckers. My car is a 2008 SE model, and I was wondering:

1. What wiring do I need?
2. Somewhere on this forum, I read that the towbar electronics for my model need to be activated by the dealer, otherwise it won't work?
3. Can I remove the wiring from the wrecked car to use it on my or is it too complicated and better to buy a new one?

Any other tips would be appreciated.

I fitted a tow bar plus electrics to my 2008 FL2 last year so my experience might help. The genuine LR cable harness is no longer listed although you can find it online at some dealers. It’s about £180 as I recall. I bought a cable harness from PF Jones for about £120 and it plugged into the appropriate sockets in the car's wiring loom. Out of the box, everything worked, apart from switching off the parking sensors, including the trailer warning light and switching off the rear fog light. As I had a Mongoose cable, plus the JLR software, it was easy to add the trailer module which solved the parking sensor issue. Whether the JLR cable harness will be as functional without adding the trailer module via software, I don’t know.

The photo shows the installation in my car, but before I fed the cable through the boot floor to the towbar.



As the cable harness just plugs into the existing wiring it should be straightforward to remove it from one vehicle and fit it to another, but it would need to be from a pre 2012 car to work with the electrics in your 2008 one. As far as I could determine, there were only the two types although each type might be available in 13 pin or 2x7 pin configuration. Of course, you need to check whether the cable harness is a genuine one, i.e it comes with the proper trailer module. If it isn’t, then you can’t be sure what you’re getting.

You would also need to extract these fuses from the fuse box in the boot which are supplied with the cable harness.

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Hmmm ... that fuse diagram seems to be at odds with the one from the LR fitting instructions

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The two diagrams are the same, just rotated 90 degrees. MY11 SD4 SE Auto

Doh! I hadn’t noticed that part of the box wasn’t shown in the first picture!

For info, fuse FA9 (15 amp) is for pin 9, constant 12v, referred to by LR as 'battery' in the trailer socket; FA11 (the square green 40 amp fuse) is for the trailer module; and FB5 (15 amp) is for pin 10, ignition switched power, referred to by LR as 'accessory feed for fridge' in the trailer socket.

Thanks everyone for comments, and thanks heaps to Simon for a great info! That's exactly what I was looking for.

The wrecked car I am planning to get the bar off is a 2010 model, so it should be OK (mine is 2008).

Thanks again!