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A clunk indicates that there is something moving around and banging against something else - grease doesn't fix an adjustment or loose component.  Get the dealer to fix it properly.

The recliner lever doesn't return?  Sounds like a spring.

Squealing brakes when cold?  That's one you might have to live with.  It is often due to the thin rust layer that develops as brakes cool from use in fairly humid clients where temperatures drop at night and especially where the vehicle is parked outdoors - once it is cleared away the brakes tend to quiet down.

Your dealer has to actually DO something for a problem to be resolved - putting grease on a loose component is like putting lipstick on a pig.

No.  It doesn't

The description of having to open and close the display several times to get it running before it goes completely dead suggests that there could be a wire that runs between the base and the display broken from flexing, or a switch that's gone bad.

In the US you can buy extensions as long as your vehicle has less than 48K miles on it according to the reseller site I visited . . . . . I have had extended coverage for every vehicle I've owned for the past 30 years and with only one or two exceptions they've been moneymakers; they make the vehicle easier to sell and increase the resale value, too.

I thought the bumper-to-bumper coverage in the US was 36K miles?

You can still purchase an extended factory bumper to bumper warranty.  Buy it from an online discounter and don't bring it in until a few days or weeks have passed

I thought the bumper-to-bumper coverage in the US was 36K miles?

I got  the anti theft code from the dealer and now everything is working. 
Thank you all for you help.

The CSR is wrong.  They often are when it comes to technical matters.  They are telephone operators, not technicians.

The sales codes have nothing whatsoever to do with the radio; the radio DOES get the Sales codes out of the BCM via the CANBUS for options like the backup camera, heated seats, Daytime Running Lights, power inverter, Air Conditioning and whether it is automatic and whether it is dual zone or triple and so on, which in turn enables access those features and their configuration - if the radio was the storage location for those items you couldn't swap out your radio and still have access to them.

The code is 4 digits long, from my records.

You turn on the radio and enter it on the 'enter unlock code' screen.  Doesn't matter whether the engine is running or not.
 
 
That is NOT correct.

You need the serial number of the radio and the VIN of the TARGET vehicle; the one you are installing the radio in.

You turn on the radio and enter it on the 'enter unlock code' screen.  Doesn't matter whether the engine is running or not.
 
 
That is NOT correct.

You need the serial number of the radio and the VIN of the TARGET vehicle; the one you are installing the radio in.

For the record, those things on top ARE the microphones.  Two organised as an array and there a signal processor to provide noise reduction.

If you have holes on the bottom of your mirrors, then someone's been busy with a drill or the design has been changed (doubtful)

The humidity sensor would be stuck to the glass if that's what the dealer said - and my vehicle has a box stuck to the glass so for once I guess a dealer is right.  The auto dim sensor for the mirror is the little round thing in the actual mirror face - that's a photocell behind the glass and they left off the silvering to let it see the light.

Those are the microphones for the Handsfree system.

If you buy the factory specified tire size the circumference will be within 1% of the factory 19 inch ones.  I'd look it up for you but I'm using my phone.

Read up on it here:

https://www.bridgestonetire.com/tread-and-trend/drivers-ed/tire-speed-rating

I'd like to see the battery out back the way the Magnum the Pontiac G5, to name a couple, had them.  They stayed clean and warm that way.  But Chrysler (and others) have been putting batteries up front like this in certain models  for many years  (my first Chrysler built like that was a Y2K LHS).  As far as I can tell, even if the shelf rotted completely away the battery would not be under the front wheel for a couple of reasons, not the least of which are very large battery cables that have no slack.  It is a lot less of a pain than one night imagine, as long as you can work indoors during winter months.

He needs an unlock code for the radio - there is no sales cod for the Sirius.

Your dealer can provide the code for you.  If he is a mensch he won't charge for it.  There is (or was, I haven't seen him around lately) a member here who was known to be helpful in such matters if you asked nicely.

I'd like to see the battery out back the way the Magnum the Pontiac G5, to name a couple, had them.  They stayed clean and warm that way.  But Chrysler (and others) have been putting batteries up front like this in certain models  for many years  (my first Chrysler built like that was a Y2K LHS).  As far as I can tell, even if the shelf rotted completely away the battery would not be under the front wheel for a couple of reasons, not the least of which are very large battery cables that have no slack.  It is a lot less of a pain than one night imagine, as long as you can work indoors during winter months.

You will need the ambient sensor, possibly to add a wire to the harness and for certain to add a sales code to the vehicle in addition to anything else.

You dealer is typical - an idiot who likes to talk to hear the sound f his voice.  Any connection between reality and his statements is purely coincidental.

Of course you can upgrade your vehicle with the uConnect nav (RB5) radio.  As long as you already have the 8.4" display it is a simple issue of substituting your non-nav (RE2) radio module with the RB5 - you can often find them on ebay or perhaps from a scrap yard - note that there is no single part number for these and that often units identified as nav are not, and that sometimes units identified as non-nav may well be equipped.  So buyer beware.

I do happen to have a spare nav unit sitting on my shelf that I purchased in case mine decided to suffer from the issue that prompted 2late4u to make his comments and (I know that I may well regret saying this) in the almost 3 years I've been driving my present Journey, have yet to experience any radio related problems . . . . I paid $800 pus freight and unfortunately the value of the US dollar has dropped a lot since I bought mine, so it is for sale for the same US$800 is someone wants it.

There is nothing wrong with the nav for the vast majority of users - there is, however a percentage of the most recent (post 2013) version that seems to suffer from a memory glitch - and FCA's handling of the issue simply makes matters worse for those impacted.

The memory glitch results in the unit refusing to recognise its detail maps, which drops the display into showing only major highways on the base map.  The solution is as simple as reloading the mapping - though if you have a unit subject to the glitch it is fairly likely to eventually recur, many users reporting that this happens on a close to annual basis, though, like anything else, that time varies greatly.  Reloading takes about 90 minutes.

FCA's solution for units under warranty is to swap out an affected radio with another, *refurbished* (read that as ' a deice which has failed on which they have reloaded the maps') device.  The problem with that solution is that all they are doing is to concentrate the population of affected units into their affected customers' vehicles - what they SHOULD be doing is to replace the navigator boards inside, since those are the components that are affected.

You can acquire the means to reload your navigator (whether it has dropped it's maps or not) with Garmin's latest mapping yourself, for free if you are diligent and tech savvy - there is a thread on the topic on the board explaining how - there are other options for those less tech capable or who want an out of the box solution they can apply.

Again, the likelihood of suffering a problem is less than what is being hyped and it can be self-resolved if/when you encounter it - of course, like any complex electronic device, it can fail, and not necessarily for this most commonly reported problem.

While I did the upgrade and I don't regret it - the decision is, of course yours to make.

You might have picked up a stone that got wedged between the disk and the pad or caliper and was rotating with the brake pressure.

 Are there any score marks on the disk? If yes, it isn't fatal, but note that it would come under the heading of road hazard and wouldn't be covered by the factory warranty.

You dealer is typical - an idiot who likes to talk to hear the sound f his voice.  Any connection between reality and his statements is purely coincidental.

Of course you can upgrade your vehicle with the uConnect nav (RB5) radio.  As long as you already have the 8.4" display it is a simple issue of substituting your non-nav (RE2) radio module with the RB5 - you can often find them on ebay or perhaps from a scrap yard - note that there is no single part number for these and that often units identified as nav are not, and that sometimes units identified as non-nav may well be equipped.  So buyer beware.

I do happen to have a spare nav unit sitting on my shelf that I purchased in case mine decided to suffer from the issue that prompted 2late4u to make his comments and (I know that I may well regret saying this) in the almost 3 years I've been driving my present Journey, have yet to experience any radio related problems . . . . I paid $800 pus freight and unfortunately the value of the US dollar has dropped a lot since I bought mine, so it is for sale for the same US$800 is someone wants it.

There is nothing wrong with the nav for the vast majority of users - there is, however a percentage of the most recent (post 2013) version that seems to suffer from a memory glitch - and FCA's handling of the issue simply makes matters worse for those impacted.

The memory glitch results in the unit refusing to recognise its detail maps, which drops the display into showing only major highways on the base map.  The solution is as simple as reloading the mapping - though if you have a unit subject to the glitch it is fairly likely to eventually recur, many users reporting that this happens on a close to annual basis, though, like anything else, that time varies greatly.  Reloading takes about 90 minutes.

FCA's solution for units under warranty is to swap out an affected radio with another, *refurbished* (read that as ' a deice which has failed on which they have reloaded the maps') device.  The problem with that solution is that all they are doing is to concentrate the population of affected units into their affected customers' vehicles - what they SHOULD be doing is to replace the navigator boards inside, since those are the components that are affected.

You can acquire the means to reload your navigator (whether it has dropped it's maps or not) with Garmin's latest mapping yourself, for free if you are diligent and tech savvy - there is a thread on the topic on the board explaining how - there are other options for those less tech capable or who want an out of the box solution they can apply.

Again, the likelihood of suffering a problem is less than what is being hyped and it can be self-resolved if/when you encounter it - of course, like any complex electronic device, it can fail, and not necessarily for this most commonly reported problem.

While I did the upgrade and I don't regret it - the decision is, of course yours to make.

You dealer is typical - an idiot who likes to talk to hear the sound f his voice.  Any connection between reality and his statements is purely coincidental.

Of course you can upgrade your vehicle with the uConnect nav (RB5) radio.  As long as you already have the 8.4" display it is a simple issue of substituting your non-nav (RE2) radio module with the RB5 - you can often find them on ebay or perhaps from a scrap yard - note that there is no single part number for these and that often units identified as nav are not, and that sometimes units identified as non-nav may well be equipped.  So buyer beware.

I do happen to have a spare nav unit sitting on my shelf that I purchased in case mine decided to suffer from the issue that prompted 2late4u to make his comments and (I know that I may well regret saying this) in the almost 3 years I've been driving my present Journey, have yet to experience any radio related problems . . . . I paid $800 pus freight and unfortunately the value of the US dollar has dropped a lot since I bought mine, so it is for sale for the same US$800 is someone wants it.

There is nothing wrong with the nav for the vast majority of users - there is, however a percentage of the most recent (post 2013) version that seems to suffer from a memory glitch - and FCA's handling of the issue simply makes matters worse for those impacted.

The memory glitch results in the unit refusing to recognise its detail maps, which drops the display into showing only major highways on the base map.  The solution is as simple as reloading the mapping - though if you have a unit subject to the glitch it is fairly likely to eventually recur, many users reporting that this happens on a close to annual basis, though, like anything else, that time varies greatly.  Reloading takes about 90 minutes.

FCA's solution for units under warranty is to swap out an affected radio with another, *refurbished* (read that as ' a deice which has failed on which they have reloaded the maps') device.  The problem with that solution is that all they are doing is to concentrate the population of affected units into their affected customers' vehicles - what they SHOULD be doing is to replace the navigator boards inside, since those are the components that are affected.

You can acquire the means to reload your navigator (whether it has dropped it's maps or not) with Garmin's latest mapping yourself, for free if you are diligent and tech savvy - there is a thread on the topic on the board explaining how - there are other options for those less tech capable or who want an out of the box solution they can apply.

Again, the likelihood of suffering a problem is less than what is being hyped and it can be self-resolved if/when you encounter it - of course, like any complex electronic device, it can fail, and not necessarily for this most commonly reported problem.

While I did the upgrade and I don't regret it - the decision is, of course yours to make.

If it doesn't have the top row of buttons on the left side of the steering wheel and if it doesn't have the auto-dimming rear view mirror then it doesn't have Bluetooth.

Take it to Costco