{"nhtsa_id":10118315,"type":"service_bulletin","type_name":"Service bulletin","date_added":"2017-10-04","date":"2016-01-12","document_id":"A971653 2042966-","mfr_campaign":null,"replaces":null,"component":"ELECTRICAL SYSTEM:SOFTWARE; TRAILER HITCHES","mfr_system":null,"summary":"SVM does not recognize the factory-installed trailer hitch control module, J345 (address word 69) (PR 1D6). The following message appears in the ODIS tester at the end of SVM - Check vehicle configuration: ?At the following control modules the configuration in Software Version Management (SVM) could not be checked: 69 The factory failed to add the trailer hitch control module, J345 (address word 69), into the CARPORT reference for vehicles with factory-installed trailer hitches. As a result, SVM cannot determine how to code or parameterize the control module.","document":{"url":"https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2016/MC-10118315-9999.pdf","alternate_url":"https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2016/MC-10118315-0001.pdf","confirmed":false},"url":"https://open.wenmarpro.com/bulletins/10118315","components":[{"id":"electrical","name":"Electrical system","parent":null},{"id":"trailer-hitch","name":"Trailer hitch","parent":null},{"id":"software","name":"Software","parent":"electrical"}],"codes":[],"topics":[],"vehicles":[{"make":"AUDI","model":"Q7","year_from":2017,"year_to":2017,"match":"exact","vehicle_ids":["2017_audi_q7"]}],"as_of":"2026-10-19","note":"A bulletin is a manufacturer's communication to its dealers, as NHTSA indexes it. The summary is NHTSA's. The document is the manufacturer's: read it at NHTSA. A bulletin is not a recall, and listing a model year does not mean every vehicle of it is concerned.","attribution":[]}