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Actually 265's are 40mm or about 1-9/16" wider than 225's and the using a 265/55 tire on a 19" rim would be much too tall. 265/55's sidewalls would be about 7/8" taller which would throw your speedometer off probably by a few mph. A more practical solution would be to use a 245/50/19. 245/50/19's would be just under 3/4" wider than stock 225/55/19's and only about 3/64" less height in sidewall. That would be negligible in speedo accuracy, probably less that 1/2 mph difference. Another option would be to switch to 18" wheels. You could use 225/60/18's which again would be a negligible difference in the speedo compared to 225/55/19's.

You either have bad luck, or superbrightleds has a bad batch of bulbs. I have had mine in for months now and no problems whatsoever. Knock on wood.

www.superbrightleds.com has them @ $11.95 ea. You can find them here. http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-bin/sto...t=50#4210-xHP12 The "C" in CWHP12 stands for "cool". When you select cool white rather than warm white, you will get CWHP12's rather that WHP12's.

Raybestos makes ceramic brake pads for the Journey. I had to get new front pads in February. Ceramics are definitely the way to go. I get almost no brake dust. My rear wheels still get brake dust because they have not been changed yet. I used to clean the brake dust of off the front wheels almost daily. Now, even if I wash the car once a week, there is virtually no brake dust to clean on the fronts. When it's time for rear pads, I will change those to ceramics as well. The Raybestos part number for ceramic front pads is PGD1273C and the rears pads are PGD1326C. autopartsgiant.com for one, sells them. Your local mechanic should be able to get them for you as well. In February, my local Dodge dealer said ceramics were not available, but they were available from Raybestos where I had my local mechanic get them and replace them for me.

From what I hear, the car companies are cutting costs and are using cheaper materials. I'm sure that includes brake pads as well. I googled this subject and it appears to be an industry-wide problem, even on higher end cars. I've read about complaints with Honda and Nissan as well. Besides, the Journey curb weight can be as much as 4239 lbs. whereas a Toyota Prius only weighs 2932 lbs. It's going to take more to stop the Journey, thus wearing out the brake pads faster.

In general I would say yes it is safe to run the Journey through a car wash with brushes. I almost exclusively run mine through a brush type car wash, and have done so at least 25-30 times. I did notice that my car wash uses a top brush that spins up and moves front to back as it cleans the hood and roof. My guess is this is quite standard with these type of car washes and minimizes damage to cars and antennae. Prior to the Journey, I had a Suburban with the long "whip" type antenna and there were no problems there as well. The antenna on the Journey is quite rigid as well as short and does angle backward towards the rear, so I think yours was not likely damaged in a car wash. My best guess on how you got that dent by your antenna was that someone backed out of (or went forward into) a garage with the garage door not all the way up and the antenna caught on the garage door thus flexing the antenna and creating a dent. Do you have a roof rack? I think a Journey without a roof rack with no rails or crossbars to protect the roof would even be more susceptible to that kind of damage. If you haven't owned the Journey for very long, I would take it back to the dealer. They should fix it for you for free.

If you have cleaned the camera eye and it is noticeably better in day rather than at night, you might want to clean the lenses of your reverse lights as well. My Journey seems to give off quite a bit of light at night when in reverse.

My camera stays focused for a good distance. You might want to clean the back-up camera if you have not done that. Recently, I noticed that mine was quite blurry, especially after the roads were salted making my car quite dirty. Wiping the camera lens under the rear tag fixed the blurriness for me.

you can go to this website and download firmware and Gracenote updates that you can burn to disc. http://mofv.com/mygig/ Also, I have had the lockpic for about 3 months. It does unlock video while driving. No complaints here.

I Was at the dealer today for an oil change with 22,000 miles. Mechanic said I have less than 25% left on my front pads. Will probably get new pads at the next oil change around 25,000 miles. Dodge dealer quoted me $240 for front brakes only. He said for about $20 more he would install ceramic pads. I am seriously considering using ceramic pads because of the extreme amount of break dust I get from the metallics. ...A quick update. I couldn't wait until 25,000 miles because one brake started to grind at 23,000. Well, I wanted to put ceramics on, but the dealer said they were not available from Chrysler. So, I searched an found that Raybestos does make ceramic pads for the Journey. The Raybestos part number for ceramic front pads is PGD1273C. I paid my local mechanic $205.00 US for parts and labor (including turning rotors). After about 1000 miles, so far so good. The brakes are quiet and there is virtually no visible brake dust on the wheels. It's too bad that Chrysler doesn't use these as OEM. It's quite nice not having to clean my wheels on a daily basis.

Another update. After having replaced the rear hatch bulbs and License plate bulbs months ago, I have made an improvement from the previous mod. The HP festoon bulbs are definitely the way to go for the interior rear hatch. They are plenty bright but not too bright and the color matches the other interior LED lights...not too blue like the cool whites, not to yellow like the warm whites. I also upgraded the license plate bulbs from the WLED-5's which were not very bright with 921x12's. The 921x12's just fit in the housing, but nevertheless, they do fit. Here's what I ordered from superbrightleds.com. Quantity: 2 Product: High Power 12-LED Festoon bulb Options: 42mm 4210-CWHP12 Quantity: 2 Product: 921-x12 Wedge Base LED bulb Options: Cool White 921-CW12

Did you get the Journey new? Is the Sirius radio working now? It sounds like you received this car from your company and the Sirius radio is working but you don't know when the Sirius was activated. As you probably know, you get Sirius free for 1 year from the date you active the radio on a new vehicle. I would call Sirius. If you tell them your ID/ESN number from your radio Sirius should be able to give you that information.

What model and generation ipod are you using? I have not been able to copy music from my ipod to the mygig HD.

Most songs that are downloaded via itunes are copy "protected". That allows you to them on your ipod and up to 5 different computers. To copy these songs to your mygig you have to burn cd's of your "protected" songs and re-rip them to itunes. You will now have unprotected copies of the songs as well as the original "protected" songs in your itunes library. Now copy your unprotected songs to a flash drive and install them in your mygig radio using the USB port. To my knowledge, that would be the easiest way to copy them to your mygig. Cheers

3 - The Disney Channel, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network mobile. I have heard there is talk about adding more channels, however for now, these are fine for us. When my kids are watching TV at home it's Disney or Nick 95% of the time. I suspect on our long road trip that The Disney Channel will be on more than the DVD movies.