SeanTacular

I drive anywhere from 150-300 km's a day. I'm a consultant and travel to clients homes so at least 4 hours a day driving. Good sounding music keeps me sain lol

Love my Journey and everything about it....except the speakers. My 2006 Sebring had much better 6x9's or at least put out more watts to them. All I did was add a 2,000 watt sub and kept the factory head unit and stock interior speakers and it was actually a well balanced sound. I am an audiophile and will be doing my stereo upgrades soon enough. The same songs that sounded good in my factory Sebring just sound bad in the journey. I'm the kind of car guy who falls deeply madly in love with my vehicles and keep them until they die of old age. My Sebring lasted 9 1/2 years and well over 500,000 km's. I plan on keeping this journey for at least 10 years if I can lol again, everything is amazing but to me the stereo is lacking. I don't cry tho becuase my Sebring was around the same price and the most advanced technology it had was cruise control and power locks and windows hahaha this keyless entry and go is amazing and so is the touch screen. Even tho there are hvac knobs I quite enjoy using the touchscreen controls. 2 months in and I'm still reaching for the key in the ignition to turn it off lol

Love my Journey and everything about it....except the speakers. My 2006 Sebring had much better 6x9's or at least put out more watts to them. All I did was add a 2,000 watt sub and kept the factory head unit and stock interior speakers and it was actually a well balanced sound. I am an audiophile and will be doing my stereo upgrades soon enough. The same songs that sounded good in my factory Sebring just sound bad in the journey. I'm the kind of car guy who falls deeply madly in love with my vehicles and keep them until they die of old age. My Sebring lasted 9 1/2 years and well over 500,000 km's. I plan on keeping this journey for at least 10 years if I can lol again, everything is amazing but to me the stereo is lacking. I don't cry tho becuase my Sebring was around the same price and the most advanced technology it had was cruise control and power locks and windows hahaha this keyless entry and go is amazing and so is the touch screen. Even tho there are hvac knobs I quite enjoy using the touchscreen controls. 2 months in and I'm still reaching for the key in the ignition to turn it off lol

With the amped door speakers and sub right under you, you could probably have straight pipe and no mufflers and still hear your music just fine lol. It's actually super quiet inside. Sine it's a packed muffler with no drone I actually have to turn the radio off and open the window to hear em. Most of the sound is behind the vehicle and your constantly driving away from it lol. Had to ask my friend to drive it down the street while I stood on the sidewalk to hear what it sounds like lol it isn't really all that loud and sounds very similar to a highly tuned infinity G35 or Nissan 350z. No where near as loud as hollow flowmasters that sound like a race car. Stereo is my next install. Got 2 amps left over from my last car. Need to get 4-6x9's and sell my competition 2,000 watt 15" type R sub cuz I need room in the back and gonna do 1500 watt 10" sub in a small bass tube behind the 3rd row. The set up in my last car could hit 143 decibels. Won a couple of sound drag competitions with it.

Haha. You gotta be a bit limber but you can reach them from underneath. Jack the front end up enough so you can crawl under and see where the bulbs are at. Then it's mostly by feel to remove and install. Took me about 10 mins per side. Including swapping the o-rings.

I was able to do mine from underneath without having to remove the fender liner.

Yeah. I took the o-rings off the OEM bulbs and used those. Without o-rings, you will run the risk of moisture inside. It's not running through water that causes it, it's the temperature difference when the housing heats up and cools down. Hopefully LED's don't get hot enough to cause that problem.

Just installed my led fogs and they were correct part # and looked just like the correct pics above with tabs in the right places. Tabs were too far left my 2 mm and had to cut them all off. Also LED's wouldn't go in unless I took the rubber seal off. It was way too thick. I'm not too worried as that are is super well protected from water unless I go driving through a river or small lake! Lol those are the worst lights ever to install just because of where they are located. I highly recommend LED's as they last 30,000-50,000 hours as opposed to 900 hours. If I had to change those every year or so I would kill myself! Lol

Factory. I like my music too much to have the sound of the exhaust interrupt what I am hearing. In fact, I installed my own custom Alpine System!
http://www.dodgejourneyforum.com/topic/6561-kicker-hs-hideaway-150w-8-powered-sub-model-11hs8/
http://www.dodgejourneyforum.com/topic/6776-alpine-sps-110tw-component-tweeters/
http://www.dodgejourneyforum.com/topic/6870-alpine-ktp-445u-brick-amp/

What mufflers are you running?

Fog lights need modification. I know it's been said that tabs need to be trimmed so I thought I'd put some pics up. All the aftermarket bulbs I have bought for the fogs have needed to have the tabs completely removed. There are three. Two on one side and one on the other. On the aftermarket bulbs I have purchased, the two tabs on one side are set farther apart than the stock bulbs and the one on the other side is in the wrong position. So I shaved all the tabs off. Even then, it takes some wiggling and force to get them in. Here's some pice showing the stock bulb and the aftermarket after I shaved off the tabs.

I did just remove my resonator, and do have a slightly better sound, but no where near what you have.

No I kept the res as I don't like the crazy raspy sound you get when you delete it. Here's the link for info about them. http://www.flopro.com/max.html It's a packed muffler with sound deadening material so I think that may be why they don't drone. I find the big empty space v style baffle mufflers drone too much cuz the sound just bounces around and around reflecting off every surface and angle.

Did you remove your resonator?

Nice. So you get zero.drone?? I get a little from my magnaflows

Probably wouldn't last long doing full 150hp nitrous shots but Zex has a 15-35hp "safe shot" NO2 Kit for around $350 that shouldn't blow your motor or tranny. http://www.zex.com/zx/safe-shot-nitrous-system-from-zextmhtml/

There's "STS Turbo" that is a completely universal turbo as it connects to the exhaust further downstream so no need for a custom exhaust manifold. Doesn't add crazy amounts of power since it uses smaller turbo's but it does add a good amount of a boost in power. Google their setups and webpage. Once you see how they do it you can just build one yourself for even cheaper. It's pretty simple. The company is actually closed now but the owner could probably help find a company to do a tune program.

Probably wouldn't last long doing full 150hp nitrous shots but Zex has a 15-35hp "safe shot" NO2 Kit for around $350 that shouldn't blow your motor or tranny. http://www.zex.com/zx/safe-shot-nitrous-system-from-zextmhtml/

I had the 8.4 touchscreen in my Cherokee and now have the 4.3 in the Journey. Personally, I find it adequate. More tech = more distraction. Enough people are driving while paying attention to their cell phones instead of where they are going.
I want to enjoy driving, not playing with tech. I can do that at home. I kind of miss my '72 Dodge.

I own a 2012 Dodge Journey with the infinity system. i am going to be installing a amp and sub myself. but do not know how to get access to the battery cause of it being located underneath the fuse box. can i mount it on the boosters and be okay. also does anyone have a wire diagram for the speakers in the rear thanks.

Definitely a Chrysler problem. Broke it on my intrepid and also my Sebring. Cheap plastic and probably brittle from a lot of cycles of really hot to freezing cold being parked outside in the winter. I always got it out with a single small drop of crazy glue on the broken handle and carefully touched it to the broken part stuck in the tube. Waited a few minutes for it to dry fully and shot a squirt of wd40 and it slide right out. I noticed they both broke shortly after the yellow plastic on the handle went from bright yellow to a dull yellow. Probably because the plastic was past its lifetime. My dipsticks weren't really stuck either. The plastic was just so brittle they broke with just a light pull.

Since my dipstick broke near the top, I was able to get it out by drilling a small pilot hole and then put a small screw in there and then pulling that out. the trick is to do it while the engine is hot since that is when it is the most "stuck" and you will have no worry of accidentally pushing the dipstick further down the tube. Then after you put the screw in, you wait until the engine cools down. Then pull on the screw and the dipstick will come out easy. It is important not to drill all the way through to the other side as there is a possibility of getting plastic bits into the engine oil. You just need to drill enough so that the screw threads catch onto the plastic.
When I put in the new dipstick, I was surprised at how much more "loose" it was when pushed all the way in. I haven't done this yet, but I bet that it would have no problem being pulled out when the engine is hot... maybe they changed the diameter of the plastic due to all the broken dipsticks.

I just got these for the high beams. Will report once installed.

You could probably get a roll of this stuff several feet long for half the price and just cut it out by yourself. That being said... The product description is great! Ha! What?
Applicable models: the dodgers cool wei warm prompt: such as dry stick, not sure good, please use water sticker, such as dry stick is out of order, we shall not be responsible for. Water stick method: first of all, will be the rear brake lamp to wipe clean. Will decorate detergent water, watering can to bottom paper of stickers, would just put detergent spray water on the sticker, then stick sticker on the rear brake lamp, adjust the position, the sticker inside of the water drain, edges if there is not adhere to, using lighter heat press close to, paste, within a few hours don't drive as far as possible, in order to avoid glue not dry, the sticker falls off.

I got overly excited when I read the title lol here's my bike I can never keep clean. This is the cleanest she's ever been. I get pulled over a lot because the plate is usually caked with an inch of mud. This is my favourite vehicle and my journey is my beater and hauler when the trail is more than 4 hours away and I don't feel like riding street that far. Haha