Best Media Center/Entertainment? 2017 Ram 1500 SLT

[mkadam68]

Just bought my 2nd Ram, should be delivered this week.

It has a very tiny/puny/nasty little screen for the radio & stuff. It looks like it has Sirius XM, but I doubt I'll use that as I do mostly podcasts. I'd eventually like to replace it with a larger, color screen and hopefully more capabilities.

I use my iPhone for work & personal pretty much all the time I'm in my truck, for GPS to direct to clients' homes, to music, to podcasts, dictate to Siri for texting, etc...

I've seen the Tesla Radio upgrade, and that looks pretty nice. But I am curious about Apple's CarPlay solution for the obvious connection to iPhone.

So I'm wondering if there's a good consensus on what the solution to this would be?

 

[SitKneelBend]

Just bought my 2nd Ram, should be delivered this week.

It has a very tiny/puny/nasty little screen for the radio & stuff. It looks like it has Sirius XM, but I doubt I'll use that as I do mostly podcasts. I'd eventually like to replace it with a larger, color screen and hopefully more capabilities.

I use my iPhone for work & personal pretty much all the time I'm in my truck, for GPS to direct to clients' homes, to music, to podcasts, dictate to Siri for texting, etc...

I've seen the Tesla Radio upgrade, and that looks pretty nice. But I am curious about Apple's CarPlay solution for the obvious connection to iPhone.

So I'm wondering if there's a good consensus on what the solution to this would be?

Upgrade to an OEM UAS radio which has Apple Carplay.

How To: Install a 2018 4C (UAQ/UAS) Radio in 2013 - 2017 RAM

For the 2018 model year RAMS, the 8.4 Radios were changed from the previous VP3/VP4 Harman radios to the 4C/4C-Nav radios made by Panasonic. The biggest advantage of these new 4C Radios is the support for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. The radios themselves fit the same mount as 2013-2017...

www.ramforum.com

 

[mkadam68]

Thank you for that. I hadn't known about it.