Driving with door ooen

[Ram20]

Occasionally around the house or in the hills I hop in and leave the door open to drive a short distance. Or should I say I did before I got my latest Ram. Now there's a safety feature that won't allow that. Any way to remedy that situation?

 

[Rav3ncroft]

I believe someone else posted that a seat belt extender can be used to avoid autopark. Try searching the forums.

 

[crash68]

Buy a 3" seatbelt extender and leave it plugged in.

https://www.seatbeltextenderpros.com/ram/

Usually the excuse for leaving the door open while trying to drive the truck is to see while backing up. Don't see the reason to leave to door open anytime a vehicle is moving, just an opportunity for the door to get damaged

 

[Ram20]

Thanks Mom

 

[Dean2]

Clearly some guys have never done much work on a ranch or farm. I know the manual has a section on Auto Park. Might want to have a read through there. I read it a few days ago before I saw this post so wasn't thinking in terms of how to drive with the door open or ajar.

 

[crash68]

I could give to loads of cow manure whether someone gets hurt if they want drive with the door open, more concerned about the potential pointless damage to the truck.
Actually with auto-park on the truck works in your favor, just open the door and when you get out the truck will put itself in park saving you more time as your not having to shift into park. It's a win win..the door is safer and not having to shift to park is quicker than not closing the door. Plus not shifting into park only takes one hand to open the door.

 

[mikeru]

I believe someone else posted that a seat belt extender can be used to avoid autopark. Try searching the forums.

I've been using a seat belt extender for this since owning a 2017 Rebel. It works great.

 

[Dean2]

I could give to loads of cow manure whether someone gets hurt if they want drive with the door open, more concerned about the potential pointless damage to the truck.
Actually with auto-park on the truck works in your favor, just open the door and when you get out the truck will put itself in park saving you more time as your not having to shift into park. It's a win win..the door is safer and not having to shift to park is quicker than not closing the door. Plus not shifting into park only takes one hand to open the door.

You really aren't quite getting it. Truck is in low range, bull low or 1 st gear on an auto. Moves along about 1/2 to 1 mph on flat pasture. You hop out, close door, jump up on the bale wagon and fork feed out as you travel along. End of the feed line, hop back down, get in truck. Other choice is jump up and down 50 times after moving ahead 30 feet to make a feed line. Fifteen feet left and right is about all a guy in good shape can toss feed with a fork. That is just a single scenrio of what you need to be able to do when working alone.

 

[crash68]

You really aren't quite getting it.

xenForo really needs to have a sarcasm text available to use on this forum...D'oh
Follow the link I provided above to order a 3" seatbelt extender, then you can ghost drive the truck across your fields.

 

[GTyankee]

I have to set traffic cones approximately 50' apart
I am not about to latch a door or the seat belt to do that

If i keep my speed down to a slow walking pace, i can make it work, the transmission will not shift into park.
( i don't mean to infer that i am walking near the truck )

My Service Adviser wants me to be safe & he wants me to allow them to do a TSB, Recall, or whatever. It would force me to close the door & possibly use the seatbelt.
I have the feeling that he will take it upon himself to have the Tech do it in spite of my wishes & then tell me that the Tech misunderstood & that it can not be switched back.

I have to have my door open every time that i park the Ram in my parking spot.
If i park inches too far back, i would be blocking a side walk
If i park inches to far forward, i am partially blocking another tenants parking space.
The room is so short, is the reason that i could not buy a Crew Cab

When one of the other tenants needs to move in larger furniture, they ask me to move the Ram



My current neighbor gives me a bit of extra room, by parking off center





The cement line to the left of my Ram is the property line, anything over that line can be given a parking ticket
I have to see that line in the cement when parking, therefore my door is open

 

[bm02tj]

pick up a seat belt end from wrecker and use when you need and remove when not needed

 

[LugsLeadOut84]

It's amazing how someone asks a question and instead of an answer receives scolding or an opposing opinion. The person asked a question and was clearly not soliciting opinions - answer it or don't.

 

[Dean2]

xenForo really needs to have a sarcasm text available to use on this forum...D'oh
Follow the link I provided above to order a 3" seatbelt extender, then you can ghost drive the truck across your fields.

Fair enough. If u intended humour or sarcasm I REALLY didn't get it. Part of my reaction to your comments about safety and potential door damage is I am less and less enthused by the nanyfication of our world and the endless number of people who Insist on telling me what i can and cannot do in order to protect my safety. When I was young the owners manual told you how to gap the plugs, points, set the carb and adjust the valve lash. Now the owners manual tells u not to drink the contents of the battery. That is not progress.

 

[turkeybird56]

Fair enough. If u intended humour or sarcasm I REALLY didn't get it. Part of my reaction to your comments about safety and potential door damage is I am less and less enthused by the nanyfication of our world and the endless number of people who Insist on telling me what i can and cannot do in order to protect my safety. When I was young the owners manual told you how to gap the plugs, points, set the carb and adjust the valve lash. Now the owners manual tells u not to drink the contents of the battery. That is not progress.

Sometimes I just gotta chuckle, cackle? Turkey gobble gobble. The autopark sense ref door open came about after a few PPL, notably the Star Trek Actor got crushed by his vehicle on a gate when the tranny allegedly was in park, or not in park and the vehicle lurched forward/backward, which ever way, one of a few cases documented. I did not have the feature on MY 15, do on MY 19.

1) You can buy seat belt extender
2) Use end of a seatbelt clip
3) See below URL, what I use
4) Live with it...

I do option #3 listed above since I have to go out in a field and get Hay and load onto a trailer. I do not however let the vehicle crawl unattended, but if that works for U, hey have fun. See url/link below: (I just keep in center console till needed). Got off of Amazon.

CAVEAT: LEGAL DISCLAIMER: I am in no way advocating/telling anyone to buy/purchase a product to skirt around any existing law.

Amazon.com

 

[turkeybird56]

Occasionally around the house or in the hills I hop in and leave the door open to drive a short distance. Or should I say I did before I got my latest Ram. Now there's a safety feature that won't allow that. Any way to remedy that situation?

See my entry # 14. Easy solve from Amazon, what I use.

 

[EdGs]

If you want to use a cheater belt, do so at your own risk. JMO, and not a diss to anyone. Autopark is a PITA, and it sucks that the world has become this way.

When I took my 2015 in for recalls, the autopark was one that was on the list. I asked the service advisor if I could decline to have that one performed at that time, he said yes, and had me sign off that I declined it, and paperwork is so marked.

I found out later that they put it on against my wishes. Between that and the same SA trying to screw me by outright lying to me that my truck needed an alignment, they will get NO business from me or any recommendation from me to anyone else for service.

BTW, I understand why the feature was added, and it does not affect me for my use, I was most p*ssed off that I was lied to.



My truck had about 45k miles at that time, and they showed me this sheet of how bad my alignment was. I asked the SA that if it really was that bad, why did my vehicle drive with no pull, and my tire wear was even? He stammered and said maybe their machine was off, since I wasn't the first that questioned them.

More like, they tried to f*ck me, and got caught. This "stealership" was brand new, and only was open a couple months at that time.

Even funnier, I have not had the alignment touched, and it still drives straight, even now, at 125k miles. Imagine that.

 

[crash68]

Now the owners manual tells u not to drink the contents of the battery. That is not progress.

You can thank the corporate lawyers and politicians for that...they both need that kind of stupid in the gene pool to survive.

 

[crash68]

When I took my 2015 in for recalls, the autopark was one that was on the list. I asked the service advisor if I could decline to have that one performed at that time, he said yes, and had me sign off that I declined it, and paperwork is so marked.

I found out later that they put it on against my wishes.

It's possible that the dealership didn't do the auto-park recall itself but there was a transmission update that applied it. This happened with my truck, the auto-park was part of a transmission update that came after the auto-park recall.
You might want to check to see if the U07 Recall is outstanding on your vehicle. If it is the above scenario happened.

 

[GTyankee]

cover your possible liability

some ppl have been known to drive over themselves

 

[EdGs]

There were 4 recalls on the sheet, I declined U07. However the autopark does function on my truck. So, it is added, even if it's not recorded.

What happens if the drivers door switch were to fail and read open while cruising at speed without the seat belt being used?

Does that mean that your transmission goes into autopark at 50 or 60 mph going down the highway? Wouldn't that be one hell of a party?