RCFiddyOne
Senior Member
- Joined
- Jun 18, 2013
- Posts
- 289
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- Ram Year
- 2015
- Engine
- 5.7
Guys – First I want to say thanks for all the future help. I have a two week old 2013 Ram Sport Crew Cab 5.7, 3.55 and this site has been a wealth of info. I’ve done some searching as well as browsing and I’ve come to learn a lot about my truck. I have a friend that has been a Ram guy most of his life and I bet he could stand to learn a thing or two from here. I have a question about my UConnect that I was hoping someone could help me with.
I dropped my truck off at the dealer this morning to have the parking brake adjusted – he had no clue there was a service bulletin out for it and while it was there, I asked if he could look at my Uconnect head unit. I tried to articulate it as best as I could and he made notes but I get the feeling he didn’t quite understand all I was stating. These are the issues I’m having:
1. There are settings for when you lock the truck, sound the horn, etc available on the headunit (8.4AN). Well, when I was playing around, I noticed that the headlights don’t flash when I lock the doors when I have this setting enabled. I thought that was odd.
2. I have the navigation set to display the turn directions on the dash and on mine, it will only happen every other trip which is very odd. I thought I needed to have the dash console set to display current speed (I normally have it show temp summary) but either way, half the time it won’t display the turn. I think that is a nice feature since I’m not always looking at the map on the headunit.
3. The SD card slot won’t recognize cards. I know they need to be formatted for FAT32 and some of the larger ones are not supported but I popped in a 1GB card just to see how it worked and nothing. I know these are small things but I wasn’t sure if they were indicative of something larger going on with the system and since the truck is under warranty, no sense in not having the dealer take a look.
4. I normally go with an ipod and I notice that it will take almost 30 seconds for the music to start playing after I start the truck. I’ve tried an ipod touch 4th gen and a 3rd gen ipod nano and I get the same for both even if I make a quick errand and leave the ipod in the truck. Also, I notice that it is slow to display album art as well. I updated to the latest software and things still seem to be the same. No big thing but not sure if that is normal.
Oh and I had a “fit and finish” issue that was minor but eyebrow raising. One of the map lights in the overhead console was a different color that all the other interior lights. A friend of mine noticed it and when I showed the service guy, he said it looked like the light was starting to burn out. I thought it was LED and I know they don’t burn out and little stuff like this should have been caught before leaving the factory. Not griping even though it sounds like I am but I’m just hoping for some trouble free miles since I rarely trade my vehicles in. So what do you guys think about my issues with my UConnect headunit? Are they more or less normal and I just need to learn to live with them?
I dropped my truck off at the dealer this morning to have the parking brake adjusted – he had no clue there was a service bulletin out for it and while it was there, I asked if he could look at my Uconnect head unit. I tried to articulate it as best as I could and he made notes but I get the feeling he didn’t quite understand all I was stating. These are the issues I’m having:
1. There are settings for when you lock the truck, sound the horn, etc available on the headunit (8.4AN). Well, when I was playing around, I noticed that the headlights don’t flash when I lock the doors when I have this setting enabled. I thought that was odd.
2. I have the navigation set to display the turn directions on the dash and on mine, it will only happen every other trip which is very odd. I thought I needed to have the dash console set to display current speed (I normally have it show temp summary) but either way, half the time it won’t display the turn. I think that is a nice feature since I’m not always looking at the map on the headunit.
3. The SD card slot won’t recognize cards. I know they need to be formatted for FAT32 and some of the larger ones are not supported but I popped in a 1GB card just to see how it worked and nothing. I know these are small things but I wasn’t sure if they were indicative of something larger going on with the system and since the truck is under warranty, no sense in not having the dealer take a look.
4. I normally go with an ipod and I notice that it will take almost 30 seconds for the music to start playing after I start the truck. I’ve tried an ipod touch 4th gen and a 3rd gen ipod nano and I get the same for both even if I make a quick errand and leave the ipod in the truck. Also, I notice that it is slow to display album art as well. I updated to the latest software and things still seem to be the same. No big thing but not sure if that is normal.
Oh and I had a “fit and finish” issue that was minor but eyebrow raising. One of the map lights in the overhead console was a different color that all the other interior lights. A friend of mine noticed it and when I showed the service guy, he said it looked like the light was starting to burn out. I thought it was LED and I know they don’t burn out and little stuff like this should have been caught before leaving the factory. Not griping even though it sounds like I am but I’m just hoping for some trouble free miles since I rarely trade my vehicles in. So what do you guys think about my issues with my UConnect headunit? Are they more or less normal and I just need to learn to live with them?
