AlfaOBD

[Hum_Dynasty]

Is it possible to have SRT flash on the 7” evic when starting the truck ? 2015 ram 2500 6.7L. I saw somewhere that Limited is possible and SRT on the 8.4” nav. But couldn’t find anything for the evic. Thanks


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[TXTONKA]

Does anyone know what settings need to be changed to turn on the front parksense? I have everything installed though I’m not sure which items to change with alfaobd.

 

[Hum_Dynasty]

The Laramie works in the default/Laramie section


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[Mpgrimm2]

Does anyone know what settings need to be changed to turn on the front parksense? I have everything installed though I’m not sure which items to change with alfaobd.

@skuppy069 may be able to point you in the right direction.

M² Mods.

 

[SitKneelBend]

I'll be following cuz I love to spend, spend, spend lol

Me to apparently lol


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The second link does not work....however I get the idea and this is something I could do pretty easily! Now just need to find a good camera. You said you have cameras in your mirrors also? How many cameras can you run? And how did you do that? That’s legit, would love to be able to see around this thing while backing into some tight spots! Thanks for all the info again


2018 Ram 2500 Tradesman
6.7L, G56

Just finished installing @Mpgrimm2 's video input harness. Worked like a charm. I also ran switched ACC power from a relay to power accessories behind the radio for future adds.

Now I need a cheap compact RCA video switching solution, preferably with a remote switch.

AlfaOBD Options used:

Vehicle Config 1 - CHMSL Camera "Yes"

CBC Features - LED CHMSL Camera "Yes"

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[Syciu]

Hi. I have 3 technical question for you about ALFAobd. We use Alfaobd and it is suer but in our country we cannot have rear turn in red in stop light - applies to Dodge ram 2014 - we need to have orange lights behind the turn - I separated the program in lamps on the back turn and stop and does not work on the back but it displays a turn error - can somehow be set in alphaobd so that, for example, the reversing lights are the rear trunk light? thank you in advance for info and help.
By the way, we have Ram Laramie versions - I installed electric mirrors and buttons with folding mirrors - do the modules in the doors also need to be replaced? we program and enable the option of folding mirrors in alfaobd - Doors Folding Mirror - YES and do we additionally run Doors Auto Power Folding Mirror? also on Yes?
And another small problem we have and I do not know if it can be changed in alphaobd - when the dipped headlights in front of the car are running while driving, the position light is lit in the right lamp and the left light is not - setting the knob from the lights to the position lights then both - right and left - and with the dipped beam headlights on only the right position lights. Is there any medicine for this?

 

[Papester]

If anyone can share wiring harness info from Service manual 2019 RAM 1500 I would appreciate it. I am looking to add Blind Spot to my 2019 RAM 1500 and have most of what I need but would like the diagram to finalize.

Here you go.

 

[T_Unit114]

Hi. I have 3 technical question for you about ALFAobd. We use Alfaobd and it is suer but in our country we cannot have rear turn in red in stop light - applies to Dodge ram 2014 - we need to have orange lights behind the turn - I separated the program in lamps on the back turn and stop and does not work on the back but it displays a turn error - can somehow be set in alphaobd so that, for example, the reversing lights are the rear trunk light? thank you in advance for info and help.
By the way, we have Ram Laramie versions - I installed electric mirrors and buttons with folding mirrors - do the modules in the doors also need to be replaced? we program and enable the option of folding mirrors in alfaobd - Doors Folding Mirror - YES and do we additionally run Doors Auto Power Folding Mirror? also on Yes?
And another small problem we have and I do not know if it can be changed in alphaobd - when the dipped headlights in front of the car are running while driving, the position light is lit in the right lamp and the left light is not - setting the knob from the lights to the position lights then both - right and left - and with the dipped beam headlights on only the right position lights. Is there any medicine for this?

Hopefully I understood this correctly. Language barriers are a tough sometimes. [emoji106]

For the rear lights you may need to go in and change the destination country code. There might be options in the module pertaining to export countries that alter these settings automatically or, must be present before such settings are able to function. My knowledge on this is limited so anyone can feel free to chime in and correct me.

As far as the mirrors go, you should only have to activate the settings while connected to the door modules.

The signal light issue (right turn being lit with low beams on and no signals operating while low beams are on) could be a wiring issue. But I would check to see what the DRL settings are currently set to. Are daytime running lamps a requirement in your country?

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[Richmond2000]

Hi. I have 3 technical question for you about ALFAobd. We use Alfaobd and it is suer but in our country we cannot have rear turn in red in stop light - applies to Dodge ram 2014 - we need to have orange lights behind the turn - I separated the program in lamps on the back turn and stop and does not work on the back but it displays a turn error - can somehow be set in alphaobd so that, for example, the reversing lights are the rear trunk light? thank you in advance for info and help.
By the way, we have Ram Laramie versions - I installed electric mirrors and buttons with folding mirrors - do the modules in the doors also need to be replaced? we program and enable the option of folding mirrors in alfaobd - Doors Folding Mirror - YES and do we additionally run Doors Auto Power Folding Mirror? also on Yes?
And another small problem we have and I do not know if it can be changed in alphaobd - when the dipped headlights in front of the car are running while driving, the position light is lit in the right lamp and the left light is not - setting the knob from the lights to the position lights then both - right and left - and with the dipped beam headlights on only the right position lights. Is there any medicine for this?

I have wondered about doing that
I know someone else had one converted and they took a wire from the FRONT turn lights to the reverse lights and installed NEW reverse lights
BUT in AUS they sell NEW "modified" ones with EU style amber turns
as far as what you want to do NO you can NOT reassign reverse to be rear turn in AlphaOBD
BUT there is settings for combined tail lights I assume if turned off you will end up with the brake lights becoming turn lights and have to wire a new brake light wire to the tail lights
I will add there is a wire under the truck for a "capper CHML" the high brake light on aftermarket caps

* I have done NONE of this it is just my observation *

I would like to see a MK5 RAM "download" AND wiring pinout for lighting to see the "factory" way
as the MK5 in Canada has separate amber turns

 

[Ouchmyfoot]

I have done the following on my 2016 Limited:
- Fog on high beam
- Global down
- HID for low beam
- LED for high beam
- LED for fogs
- LED for reverse lights
- LED for license plates

Where are these settings located? I want to add the fog on high beam and the led low beam and led fog.

 

[1500ram12]

Where are these settings located? I want to add the fog on high beam and the led low beam and led fog.

Once connected to the bcm, under car configuration, set VehConfig 3 high intensity discharge lights to enable, look for fog light drop out. Set that to disable. About halfway down you'll see led options. Enabled what you need


2018 Ram 2500 6.4L Hemi Tradesman

 

[corneileous]

Once connected to the bcm, under car configuration, set VehConfig 3 high intensity discharge lights to enable, look for fog light drop out. Set that to disable. About halfway down you'll see led options. Enabled what you need


2018 Ram 2500 6.4L Hemi Tradesman

Not to change the subject too much but what exactly gets accomplished when you use that Alpha OBD thing to state that you’ve got HIDs in your low beams instead of the regular lights? What’s to be gained by doing that?

I would imagine that when you set the system up for that you’ve got the LEDs in your highbeams, your fog lights, your reverse lights and your License plate lights that, that’s going to go ahead and turn off the warning message about the bulb out and will most likely if I understood correctly, make it so that those inline black box dohickeys in the wiring of the fog lights and the highbeams are no longer necessary?


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[1500ram12]

Not to change the subject too much but what exactly gets accomplished when you use that Alpha OBD thing to state that you’ve got HIDs in your low beams instead of the regular lights? What’s to be gained by doing that?

I would imagine that when you set the system up for that you’ve got the LEDs in your highbeams, your fog lights, your reverse lights and your License plate lights that, that’s going to go ahead and turn off the warning message about the bulb out and will most likely if I understood correctly, make it so that those inline black box dohickeys in the wiring of the fog lights and the highbeams are no longer necessary?


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When you enable VehConfig 3 high intensity discharge lights it's disables the pulse width modulation that ram uses to extend the life of the halogen bulbs. That feature is what causes issue when upgrading to led or hid's in the low's. Highs doesn't use that so it's not necessary to change anything. Setting anything to led with alphaobd, to my best knowledge doesn't eliminate the bulb out warning. It is just telling the bcm there will be less voltage at those locations. I haven't had a bulb go out or have seen anyone report that by changing anything they haven't had a bulb go and lose that feature. Unlike adding canbus adapters or resistors that will not trip the bulb out warning when a bulb goes out. Because when adding led's or hid's because of the pwm will give you a bulb out resistors and canbus adapters are designed to trick the bcm into thinking everything is good even when it's not. The reason why a lot of these features are able to be enabled although were never a option on ram truck's is that FCA uses a lot of the same modules and computers across all their products. So jeeps have had hid's available for a while from the factory. So it's already in the programming on our trucks just not enabled. Now I'm not sure why on all the features that 09-12 truck's don't have certain options, other than it wasn't available for those year's. Basically alfaobd gives us access to previously only what a dealer could access plus options they could never without going to FCA for override approval and most likely not get.


2018 Ram 2500 6.4L Hemi Tradesman

 

[corneileous]

Once connected to the bcm, under car configuration, set VehConfig 3 high intensity discharge lights to enable, look for fog light drop out. Set that to disable. About halfway down you'll see led options. Enabled what you need


2018 Ram 2500 6.4L Hemi Tradesman

Not to change the subject too much but what exactly gets accomplished when you use that Alpha OBD thing to state that you’ve got HIDs in your low beams instead of the regular lights? What’s to be gained by doing that?

I would imagine that when you set the system up for that you’ve got the LEDs in your highbeams, your fog lights, your reverse lights and your License plate lights that, that’s going to go ahead and turn off the warning message about the bulb out and will most likely if I understood correctly, make it so that those inline black box dohickeys in the wiring of the fog lights and the highbeams are no longer necessary?


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[corneileous]

When you enable VehConfig 3 high intensity discharge lights it's disables the pulse width modulation that ram uses to extend the life of the halogen bulbs. That feature is what causes issue when upgrading to led or hid's in the low's. Highs doesn't use that so it's not necessary to change anything. Setting anything to led with alphaobd, to my best knowledge doesn't eliminate the bulb out warning. It is just telling the bcm there will be less voltage at those locations. I haven't had a bulb go out or have seen anyone report that by changing anything they haven't had a bulb go and lose that feature. Unlike adding canbus adapters or resistors that will not trip the bulb out warning when a bulb goes out. Because when adding led's or hid's because of the pwm will give you a bulb out resistors and canbus adapters are designed to trick the bcm into thinking everything is good even when it's not. The reason why a lot of these features are able to be enabled although were never a option on ram truck's is that FCA uses a lot of the same modules and computers across all their products. So jeeps have had hid's available for a while from the factory. So it's already in the programming on our trucks just not enabled. Now I'm not sure why on all the features that 09-12 truck's don't have certain options, other than it wasn't available for those year's. Basically alfaobd gives us access to previously only what a dealer could access plus options they could never without going to FCA for override approval and most likely not get.


2018 Ram 2500 6.4L Hemi Tradesman

Hmm.. lol. I had to Google that pulse width modulation stuff that you spoke about, never heard that before....lol. Never even in my wildest dreams have a ever thought of anything close to that.… LOL.

Although I’ve never had any issues as far as I know once I upgraded my low beams in my projectors to HIDs, if I was to get this alpha OBD thing and actually change my low beam setting to HID, will that make my lowbeams work any better, or is this a setting that I can pretty much pay no regards to since I’ve never had any issues with my new lights?

But so in other words about changing the setting for the highbeams and the fog lights, the only real necessity to change that would be so that wouldn’t have to run those little black box resistor things or or whatever they’re called that’s in line of the wiring that goes to my LED lights in my fog lights and then my highbeams, correct?

But that’s great if changing the setting for the license plate lights, the reverse lights or whatever else you may have that you changed from incandescent to LED, but it doesn’t cancel the bulb out message at the same time because LED lights can still go bad on ya… LOL. They don’t last forever.


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[1500ram12]

Hmm.. lol. I had to Google that pulse width modulation stuff that you spoke about, never heard that before....lol. Never even in my wildest dreams have a ever thought of anything close to that.… LOL.

Although I’ve never had any issues as far as I know once I upgraded my low beams in my projectors to HIDs, if I was to get this alpha OBD thing and actually change my low beam setting to HID, will that make my lowbeams work any better, or is this a setting that I can pretty much pay no regards to since I’ve never had any issues with my new lights?

But so in other words about changing the setting for the highbeams and the fog lights, the only real necessity to change that would be so that wouldn’t have to run those little black box resistor things or or whatever they’re called that’s in line of the wiring that goes to my LED lights in my fog lights and then my highbeams, correct?

But that’s great if changing the setting for the license plate lights, the reverse lights or whatever else you may have that you changed from incandescent to LED, but it doesn’t cancel the bulb out message at the same time because LED lights can still go bad on ya… LOL. They don’t last forever.


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Yes you can get rid of any canbus or resistors used with led's/hid's. If you are using a relay harness with hid's you can get rid of that now.

Changing the low beams to hid's won't make them perform any better. It just eliminates the need for any kind of adapter. Which is one less failure point


2018 Ram 2500 6.4L Hemi Tradesman

 

[corneileous]

Yes you can get rid of any canbus or resistors used with led's/hid's. If you are using a relay harness with hid's you can get rid of that now.

Nice.

But what is what on my HID’s? To my knowledge one of them black things is a ballast but I have no idea what the other box/thing is.

Changing the low beams to hid's won't make them perform any better. It just eliminates the need for any kind of adapter. Which is one less failure point


2018 Ram 2500 6.4L Hemi Tradesman

Ah, ok. I didn’t have to use an adapter with mine.



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[1500ram12]

Nice.

But what is what on my HID’s? To my knowledge one of them black things is a ballast but I have no idea what the other box/thing is.

Ah, ok. I didn’t have to use an adapter with mine.



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Depending on the kit you have you will have the ballast, and the igniter which is a smaller black box. If there is another small black box it could be a canbus adapter. It's possible that the kit you have may have a built-in canbus adapter. If you had to install a relay harness it would have had a you hook the passenger side ballast directly to the harness and not to the truck's headlight harness


2018 Ram 2500 6.4L Hemi Tradesman

 

[corneileous]

Depending on the kit you have you will have the ballast, and the igniter which is a smaller black box. If there is another small black box it could be a canbus adapter. It's possible that the kit you have may have a built-in canbus adapter. If you had to install a relay harness it would have had a you hook the passenger side ballast directly to the harness and not to the truck's headlight harness


2018 Ram 2500 6.4L Hemi Tradesman

Maybe that is built-in because the kit that I bought; that came from Vanquish Auto before they closed, only had two of those black boxes on each one of the wiring harnesses.

But no, all I had to do was just simply drill like a three-quarter inch or seven eighths inch hole I believe it was in the access panel on the backside of my headlights and take the wiring harness that had a great big rubber grommet on it that sealed up the inside of that hole I drilled, and basically one end of harness plugged into my lights inside the headlight housing and the other end of the harness plugged into the big wiring wiring plug on the truck that used to plug into the lights.


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[Syciu]

I still have a question about programming window down and window up? does it work for someone? I ask because both options are encoded and they only take the windows down - it doesn't close up anymore even though it's set to Yes.