"What DON'T you like about your 5th Gen RAM"?

[Reamer]

I really don’t mean to sound petty but can’t ya just roll your windows up before shutting your truck off?


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I don’t really need to keep a thirsty 8 cylinder engine running just to put up the windows. My past 5 vehicles either gave a time, or until a door was opened to still have juice to close the windows. This 1500 Limited has the running boards going in n out, the suspension adjusting itself, and who knows what else’s it going on after you’ve turned the truck off. Give me a chance to close the Crimean windows!

After all this is a thread about what you don’t like about your RAM. It’s not like I’m going to dump it cause of this, just commenting.


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[corneileous]

I don’t really need to keep a thirsty 8 cylinder engine running just to put up the windows. My past 5 vehicles either gave a time, or until a door was opened to still have juice to close the windows. This 1500 Limited has the running boards going in n out, the suspension adjusting itself, and who knows what else’s it going on after you’ve turned the truck off. Give me a chance to close the Crimean windows!

After all this is a thread about what you don’t like about your RAM. It’s not like I’m going to dump it cause of this, just commenting.


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Then roll em up before you park....lol.
lol.

I can do this all night long. Lol.

And yeah I know this thread is all about what we dislike about our Rams no matter how petty and interesting it may be but still, I just get a kick out some of the responses.


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[TestPilot57]

After putting the truck in park and pushing the stop/start button (to shut down the engine) I can’t put the windows up. Have to go back to the ACC mode to close the windows. Then to run, then off.

I’ll dig into the menu system to see if there is a setting, but so far I really don’t like this aspect of the Ram.

That's strange. Both my '15 and G5 '20 keep power to the windows (and everything else as far as I know) after shutting it off until you open the door (or a few minutes if you don't open the door).

That said, I almost always close my rear slider as I am going up the driveway, because I tend to forget otherwise.

 

[sandawilliams]

I don’t really need to keep a thirsty 8 cylinder engine running just to put up the windows. My past 5 vehicles either gave a time, or until a door was opened to still have juice to close the windows. This 1500 Limited has the running boards going in n out, the suspension adjusting itself, and who knows what else’s it going on after you’ve turned the truck off. Give me a chance to close the Crimean windows!

After all this is a thread about what you don’t like about your RAM. It’s not like I’m going to dump it cause of this, just commenting.


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I would read the owners manual. Mine is adjustable for how long the delay is for power to shut down after the ignition is turned off.

 

[Kenneth Andrews]

AUTO PARK! Won’t let me drive my truck. I wanted to move it yesterday to keep it out of the sun. Hoped in, put it in gear and it won’t let me move. Keeps saying I need to put it in park then back to drive. I do this but it keeps doing it. Tried all sorts of stuff but it kept doing it.

I think it has something g to do with the seat belt but not sure. I disabled it in the system but it continued to do it.

Read about some actor getting killed by his Cherokee so they come up with this solution??

 

[corneileous]

AUTO PARK! Won’t let me drive my truck. I wanted to move it yesterday to keep it out of the sun. Hoped in, put it in gear and it won’t let me move. Keeps saying I need to put it in park then back to drive. I do this but it keeps doing it. Tried all sorts of stuff but it kept doing it.

I think it has something g to do with the seat belt but not sure. I disabled it in the system but it continued to do it.

Read about some actor getting killed by his Cherokee so they come up with this solution??

Wait, what? Your auto-Park won’t let you drive at all? But yeah, it sorta does have a little bit to do with the seatbelt but the auto-Park should only activate when backing up with the door open and either the seatbelt isn’t buckled, or you can back up with the door open with no belt buckled as long as you never lift your foot off the brake i.e., just pressing it enough to keep the brake lights on, you could probably back up for miles and not have it engage.

But yeah, that actor that let his Cherokee kill him, that’s why they came up with this because I’m sure FCA got the **** sued outta them over that. I don’t think the amount was ever disclosed but I’m sure it wasn’t small so uh yeah, this is this their answer in this sue-happy world we live in where there’s just entirely too many people who must place blame on someone else for their ****-up, and get money out of it in the end. Lawsuits ain’t cheap. Just ask Tony Stuart; he was cleared in that racetrack death but still got swindled outta quite a bit of money by the family of that retard that he hit.


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[Reamer]

That's strange. Both my '15 and G5 '20 keep power to the windows (and everything else as far as I know) after shutting it off until you open the door (or a few minutes if you don't open the door).

That said, I almost always close my rear slider as I am going up the driveway, because I tend to forget otherwise.

Good. I dug into the manual. Apparently it’s a setting.
“NOTE:
The Key Off Power Delay feature will allow the power windows to operate for up to 10 minutes after the ignition is placed in the OFF position. “




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[corneileous]

Good. I dug into the manual. Apparently it’s a setting.
“NOTE:
The Key Off Power Delay feature will allow the power windows to operate for up to 10 minutes after the ignition is placed in the OFF position. “




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Good deal. Where exactly is that setting?

Never mind, I guess I already had that setting enabled to 5 minutes and didn’t even know that as long as no doors are opened after shutting the truck off, you have either 5 or 10 minutes to play the radio, and roll up or down the windows and even open and close the rear window..... hmm...

But well, there ya go. At least one good point of this thread and the other one just like it in the 5th-Gen section is that in most cases some of the things that people don’t like about their Rams, they can be corrected....


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[Kenneth Andrews]

Wait, what? Your auto-Park won’t let you drive at all? But yeah, it sorta does have a little bit to do with the seatbelt but the auto-Park should only activate when backing up with the door open and either the seatbelt isn’t buckled, or you can back up with the door open with no belt buckled as long as you never lift your foot off the brake i.e., just pressing it enough to keep the brake lights on, you could probably back up for miles and not have it engage.

But yeah, that actor that let his Cherokee kill him, that’s why they came up with this because I’m sure FCA got the **** sued outta them over that. I don’t think the amount was ever disclosed but I’m sure it wasn’t small so uh yeah, this is this their answer in this sue-happy world we live in where there’s just entirely too many people who must place blame on someone else for their ****-up, and get money out of it in the end. Lawsuits ain’t cheap. Just ask Tony Stuart; he was cleared in that racetrack death but still got swindled outta quite a bit of money by the family of that retard that he hit.


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I was trying to back up and drive forward. Just pivoting the front windshield out of the sun. There was a small bush behind me I was going to back over. Whole thing just locked me up. Couldn’t go forward or back and the screen instructions were worthless. I turned the front and rear sensors off but still had all these problems. Really annoying.

 

[corneileous]

I was trying to back up and drive forward. Just pivoting the front windshield out of the sun. There was a small bush behind me I was going to back over. Whole thing just locked me up. Couldn’t go forward or back and the screen instructions were worthless. I turned the front and rear sensors off but still had all these problems. Really annoying.

As you found out, the front/rear parksense sensors have nothing to do with it but yeah, I know it’s annoying but like I explained earlier, there’s a reason it’s there but luckily, there’s ways around it. You can buckle the seatbelt either over you or behind you if the driver door just absolutely must be open while backing, or in your case, just close the damn door and you’ll be fine. You’re not gonna save any less wear your door hinges or door latch just by simply closing your door to do what you did.

But like for backing up with the door open, if you don’t wanna mess with the seatbelt, or try to ride your foot on the brake, just get you a couple of very short seatbelt extenders for your front belts and all your problems will be solved. As long as the system “thinks” your belt is buckled, you can do whatever the hell you want and not have the auto-park engage.


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[Kenneth Andrews]

The door was closed. I was in 4wd high. Really strange.

 

[corneileous]

The door was closed. I was in 4wd high. Really strange.

Wait an minute... I keep forgetting there’s both a 4th-Gen thread like this and one for the 5th-Gens,
and I often get them confused with whichever one I’m in but since you posted this in the 5th-Gen forum, I’m thinking this really isn’t your auto park feature, it’s that auto-braking feature that the new trucks have that actually applies the brakes when the truck thinks you’re about to back over something or hit something. But to be clear, your truck’s not slamming itself into park, is it? If not, it’s your auto brake, not your auto park. I’m not really sure, I know I’ve seen it mentioned here somewhere but I think I’m order to get around that auto brake is that you have to keep your foot on the brake, applying just enough brake to light your brake lights so that the truck knows your foot is indeed on the brake.

As far as whether or not being in 4-HI or what they call 4-Lock, I don’t know why that would keep it from working unless your foot wasn’t on the brake.

But I’m curious- why did you have your truck in 4WD??


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[Kenneth Andrews]

Cause I was off road

 

[corneileous]

Cause I was off road

So no need felt to respond to the other stuff I said, huh… LOL.

But OK so, you were off road… Did you still need four-wheel-drive? I guess it doesn’t matter because like I said, being in four-wheel-drive shouldn’t change anything to my knowledge. The only thing that I know of that being in four-wheel-drive changes, is that if you’re in four Lo, the auto park won’t engage if you have the door open.

But AnyWho, you gonna give us a little bit more information to help you out with your situation?


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[Kenneth Andrews]

I think I said it all but here is a rundown. Truck was off-road, in 4wd high, parked on flat ground in AZ desert. Small bush behind me. Dash was facing south and I wanted it to face North. Rather than drive truck in arc my plan was to pivot front to back until I rotated 180 degrees. The small bush behind me was not an obstacle that was going to block me. My plan was to go over it without concern at all. Been off roading since I was a kid and this bush was a nothing burger.

So I hoped in truck (no seat belt but door definitely closed due to ac) and put it in D or R Don’t recall which was first. But the truck wouldn’t go forward or backward and the dash instructiins said something like “auto park. Place car in p then into d” or something like that. If it happens again I will take a pic.

so I did what it asked. And tried again. Same message. It was engaging the park brake and I would take it off and it would put it back on. Did this trying to to forward and backward. Even turned car off and back on. Not sure exactly how I got it to stop doing it. Lasted several minutes and was very frustrating. Glad it was not an emergency.

I ended up driving in an arc.

not sure really what the hell happened or how I fixed it. Just never want it to happen again.

 

[corneileous]

I think I said it all but here is a rundown. Truck was off-road, in 4wd high, parked on flat ground in AZ desert. Small bush behind me. Dash was facing south and I wanted it to face North. Rather than drive truck in arc my plan was to pivot front to back until I rotated 180 degrees. The small bush behind me was not an obstacle that was going to block me. My plan was to go over it without concern at all. Been off roading since I was a kid and this bush was a nothing burger.

So I hoped in truck (no seat belt but door definitely closed due to ac) and put it in D or R Don’t recall which was first. But the truck wouldn’t go forward or backward and the dash instructiins said something like “auto park. Place car in p then into d” or something like that. If it happens again I will take a pic.

so I did what it asked. And tried again. Same message. It was engaging the park brake and I would take it off and it would put it back on. Did this trying to to forward and backward. Even turned car off and back on. Not sure exactly how I got it to stop doing it. Lasted several minutes and was very frustrating. Glad it was not an emergency.

I ended up driving in an arc.

not sure really what the hell happened or how I fixed it. Just never want it to happen again.

OK so first off, even though this bush you’re talking about wasn’t a hard obstacle to run over, the auto brake… I don’t know why you said auto park or auto parking brake but the auto brake was just doing its job. It can’t see items and realize what’s able to be driven over and what’s not because that’s not what it was designed to do.... it was designed to automatically apply the brakes to keep you from the backing over or into anything; doesn’t matter if it’s a bush, empty cardboard box, neighbor’s cat, another vehicle, kid standing there or a solid iron fence.

I can understand why it wouldn’t let you go backward but what baffles me, is why it wouldn’t let you go forward. Was there any other obstacle/bush at all in front of you where you where you were trying to pivot-drive at?

If it wouldn’t let you go forward either then there might of been something in front of you it was trying to keep you from driving over but then again, those new trucks that have the rear auto brake like that, I don’t think they working while going forward. I think it’s only for when you’re trying to back up is when it’ll stop you if it thinks you’re about to drive over something or back into something.

But try it at home sometime. Go get anything large whether it’s a trashcan, kids bicycle, etc. etc., and put one large object about 6 feet behind you and 6 feet in front of you, get in, leave it in 2WD and try backing up and going forward and see what it does.

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[BWL]

I don't understand why the front parking sensors go off when I'm in reverse to let me know something is in front of me.

 

[Kenneth Andrews]

OK so first off, even though this bush you’re talking about wasn’t a hard obstacle to run over, the auto brake… I don’t know why you said auto park or auto parking brake but the auto brake was just doing its job. It can’t see items and realize what’s able to be driven over and what’s not because that’s not what it was designed to do.... it was designed to automatically apply the brakes to keep you from the backing over or into anything; doesn’t matter if it’s a bush, empty cardboard box, neighbor’s cat, another vehicle, kid standing there or a solid iron fence.

I can understand why it wouldn’t let you go backward but what baffles me, is why it wouldn’t let you go forward. Was there any other obstacle/bush at all in front of you where you where you were trying to pivot-drive at?

If it wouldn’t let you go forward either then there might of been something in front of you it was trying to keep you from driving over but then again, those new trucks that have the rear auto brake like that, I don’t think they working while going forward. I think it’s only for when you’re trying to back up is when it’ll stop you if it thinks you’re about to drive over something or back into something.

But try it at home sometime. Go get anything large whether it’s a trashcan, kids bicycle, etc. etc., and put one large object about 6 feet behind you and 6 feet in front of you, get in, leave it in 2WD and try backing up and going forward and see what it does.

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The screen said auto park. I remember because I looked it up in the settings and disabled it. It was not auto brake. Nothing in front of me.

 

[corneileous]

The screen said auto park. I remember because I looked it up in the settings and disabled it. It was not auto brake. Nothing in front of me.

You shouldn’t be able to disable the auto park, tho. And even with the auto brake, I’m not even sure you can turn that off either but what exactly did you disable? I can’t imagine it was the auto park because the auto park is a safety feature that can’t be disabled, and it should really only activate when backing up or I think even when pulling up forward with the door open.


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[Reamer]

Then roll em up before you park....lol.
lol.

I can do this all night long. Lol.

And yeah I know this thread is all about what we dislike about our Rams no matter how petty and interesting it may be but still, I just get a kick out some of the responses.


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Well, keep on trolling all night long.

It was a simple setting to allow up to 10 minutes after shut down to close the windows- so no, I’m not going to close the windows before shutting off the engine.

Lol.