activating DRLs in a USA built Ram

NightReaper said:

I recently took in my 2012 Sport Crew and upgraded to a new 2018 Night Crew and wanted to get my DRL's activated after reading through post.



I am in the Tampa Bay region, and all my service was through Jerry Ulm CJDR for the previous truck and I've never had an issue. I took it in this morning for an 0800 appointment and told the exactly what I was aiming to do, mentioned the sales code and they gave me a $99 quote. I have a set of retrofits with the Diode Dynamics switchbacks that I had my 2012 so I was excited with the thought of having a true, white LED DRL (something that would've been very hard to achieve on the older model)

Long story short, the rep comes back, says they flashed it with the new LM5 code and we were good to go. I pay and leave, and fire up the truck. To my dismay, my LEDs weren't burning bright but in fact my projector lenses were dimly lit instead. Sure enough, they are true DRL's; they run while the vehicle is drive without any other lights activated and they turn off on the respective side when the turn signal is activated.

Is this an error on the dealer's side? Did they use the wrong sales code? Am I stuck with this version of the DRL's?

I love my new truck and I was really excited to have true DRL's finally. Any suggestions would be great or if anyone has ran into the issue (I haven't read anything like this up to this point).

Thanks in advance!

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NightReaper said:

I recently took in my 2012 Sport Crew and upgraded to a new 2018 Night Crew and wanted to get my DRL's activated after reading through post.

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I am in the Tampa Bay region, and all my service was through Jerry Ulm CJDR for the previous truck and I've never had an issue. I took it in this morning for an 0800 appointment and told the exactly what I was aiming to do, mentioned the sales code and they gave me a $99 quote. I have a set of retrofits with the Diode Dynamics switchbacks that I had my 2012 so I was excited with the thought of having a true, white LED DRL (something that would've been very hard to achieve on the older model)

Long story short, the rep comes back, says they flashed it with the new LM5 code and we were good to go. I pay and leave, and fire up the truck. To my dismay, my LEDs weren't burning bright but in fact my projector lenses were dimly lit instead. Sure enough, they are true DRL's; they run while the vehicle is drive without any other lights activated and they turn off on the respective side when the turn signal is activated.

Is this an error on the dealer's side? Did they use the wrong sales code? Am I stuck with this version of the DRL's?

I love my new truck and I was really excited to have true DRL's finally. Any suggestions would be great or if anyone has ran into the issue (I haven't read anything like this up to this point).

Thanks in advance!

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pgr1990 said:

Anyone have any luck activating DRLs on a 2018?


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Farmer Fran said:

Got them turned on today!! Wooohooo!!

Let's recap

Dealership 1
Charge $60 (refunded for not performing service)
Told them LM5 they did LM1. I explained it to them and they still said that there is nothing they could do, that they would call Chrysler tomorrow (today - by date). Got a call from Dealership 1 today saying that it is only for 2013 2500/3500 etc... I said thanks goodbye.

Dealership 2 - Steve White Motors Hickory, NC - Service department is top notch!
Told guy Dealership 1 story. He turned off LM1, turned on LM5, $26 and 20 minutees later I and was on my.

EDITED FOR RUN-ON SENTENCE! :goofy:

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NightReaper said:

Update: The dealer that did my flash to the dim low-beams pretty much talked to me like I was the idiot, and tried to explain that the "dim low beam option is the only open module" for the DRL and thus they enabled it. I've never read that anywhere around here about open modules and what not.

The dealer I purchased from (not the same as above) doesn't have any techs that are familiar with it.

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Brent L said:

I am sure this has been answered here before, but I don’t see it.

If you have the dealer turn on DRL with the LM5 sales code, will you now have a setting in the radio to turn then off/on?

I really want them on most of the time, but would like to turn them off in some situations.


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Brent L said:

Was dealer #1 in Cornelius? I don’t want to waste my time starting there. Thanks!


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JB1 said:

No you cannot turn them on and off

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NCRaineman said:

You can turn them on and off with a tuner. My BullyDog tuner can do it on-the-fly.

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JB1 said:

So what did you do?


I’m glad I avoided all that dealer frustration.

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Farmer Fran said:

No. Lake Norman is top notch in my opinion, but too far for me to go for something like this. I do however buy most of my new CJDR from them. 5 at the moment

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