See below edits for process/instructions. I need some folks with Alfa obd to test this to make sure I got it right.
It seems that because these settings are taking about a day to activate in the radio menu from reading the bcm so change a setting and wait a day before changing again.
Edit 3: 12/7 PM after this mornings post the menu reverted back to the original one check box and the seats and steering wheel aren't coming on automatically anymore. At this point I'm throwing in the towel for now and focusing on my radio being broken overall and crashing. I'll pick this project back up when I get a replacement. Maybe I steered some folks in the right direction to get this working now.
Edit 2 12/7: my auto on comfort heated seats and steering wheel and now working for both remote start and regular starts despite my head unit randomly crashing and not turning on etc but that's a separate issue. Yesterday I returned the Alfa obd setting back to what it was originally (Option 1-2) back when I installed the 4c. My menu used to be one check box on the option 1-2 setting. Today I looked at the settings menu and the "auto on comfort" sub menu was further down the list then it was originally. I entered the sub menu and it looks the same as the screenshot when I enabled option 2-3. I tried checking the "all starts" box again and it gave me the error tone and reverted back to the "remote start" check box . However when I got in the truck an hour later and started it normal, bam the heaters kicked on as soon as the radio turned on. I doubled checked the remote start when I got home and sure enough they came on with that too.
At this point in time it seems that changing the setting from option 1-2, to absent, waiting a day for that to activate in the system, then switching back to option 1-2 did it .
Edit 12/5: AS OF RIGHT NOW I REMOTE STARTED MY TRUCK AND WENT OUT THERE, NO HEATED SEATS OR STEERING WHEEL WAS ON (it was cold enough to activate automatically) AND THE MENU HAS DISAPPEARED COMPLETELY FROM SETTINGS MENU.
I'll update with any further. I'll try and start the process over from the stock setting and see if the menu comes back, I was definitely on to something
Original Post :
Ladies and gentlemen I believe I have made progress on the auto on comfort homefront for those of us with the infotainment harness.
this is for the folks who attempt to check the auto on comfort box and the check box disappears within a few seconds and gives you an error tone.
In alfa OBD in the customer settings menu there is an option for Auto on comfort.
The three options it gives you are absent, option 1 - 2, or option 2 -3.
For those of us with trucks that came with heated seats stock it is set for "option 1 - 2" by default . (I have no clue what 1-2 mean or what 2-3 means)
I attempted 2-3
low and behold the entire menu has changed. See below.
Ironically enough it won't let me see it "off" or "all starts" and it will give the error tone and switch back to " remote start". I will report back later if this works . (See edit #1 it didn't)
On a negative note my radio did the same thing it did last week (a few pages back) and completely blanked out on me while driving . Instead of only doing it once and lasting 30 seconds, today it came back on within about 15 seconds and then it crashed about 7 more times in a row each time only lasting about 10 seconds. I did notice each time it comes back on it goes right back to the screen where it was when it shut off and it does not give me the uconnect splash screen like it would if I was first starting the radio but every time it crashes it shows the shut off splsh screen with the ram symbol diminishing.
On about the 4th time I got frustrated and smacked the black screen and it came right back on.
Unfortunately I've already sold my old radio and they will only accept a return if I ship them my radio first even though I've already returned one unit to them with the wrong part number issue. The other night I dismantled my dash to check on my connections and I also used some really good mounting tape to mount the infotainment black box for the heated seat harness since it was rattling around in the dash and making me crazy.
The only idea I have left would be to disconnect the infotainment harness to see if that's the culprit but it hasn't happened again since this morning .