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Hey mate did you ever find a fix for the album art problem? It's also driving me nuts that something as simple as reading the embedded artwork in an MP3 can't be done. It's a joke of a system and I periodically check the uconnect update website in a slim hope of them ever fixing it.
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Hi Journeyman, Just wanted to send you a quick question on a threadthat closed earlier this year in regards to changing out a headlight switch and converting it to an auto setup. I switched the switched to an auto version and tested the automode. Is it supposed to work after the switch without a flash done to the system?
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The automatic lights will turn the headlights (as opposed to the DRLs) on when the ambient light levels drop to the appropriate level - but unless the vehicle was supplied with automatic headlights there is no ambient lights sensor installed.
There at three different models of the ambient sensor available; One senses temperature, another senses light levels and the third senses both. As you might imagine, the temperature sensor is used with the automatic air conditioning. If you have neither auto air or auto headlights then thee is no sensor - it shows up as a small dome poking out of a hole in the center of the dash.
DRLs are quite another matter; A DRL switches on the headlights at half brightness (some Journeys use the parking lights) when the headlights are switched off and the vehicle's engine is running and not in Park.
Both features require sales codes to function.
It may be that if the switch is in 'auto' and vehicle doesn't detect the sensor it will presume it is night as a failsafe, in which case your headlights and tail lights would always be on wen the engine is running.
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Hi Journeyman, Just wanted to send you a quick question on a threadthat closed earlier this year in regards to changing out a headlight switch and converting it to an auto setup. I switched the switched to an auto version and tested the automode. Is it supposed to work after the switch without a flash done to the system?
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Nope - it requires a sales code AND a change of the ambient sensor.
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Had a coolant leaking on the ground after I went to start thr car after a gym workout. Smelled like hot butt hole. Dealer found 2 freeze plugs leaking in the rear. They had to pull the tranny, $
2500.00 total out of pocket. My service Warranty(ethos group) didn't cover it .
Anyhow, I still have the original 225 tires on. There all bald! I will be getting some 255s very soon.
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Perhaps you missed the term 'aftermarket'. If you'd have had the Chrysler warranty there'd have been no discussion. Your dealer COULD have sold you the one from Chrysler.
That's a lesson I learned the hard way long ago
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Had a coolant leaking on the ground after I went to start thr car after a gym workout. Smelled like hot butt hole. Dealer found 2 freeze plugs leaking in the rear. They had to pull the tranny, $
2500.00 total out of pocket. My service Warranty(ethos group) didn't cover it .
Anyhow, I still have the original 225 tires on. There all bald! I will be getting some 255s very soon.
