johnfragi

Hey all... Live in Sydney Australia. Bought my first ever Dodge in January. Journey R/T I am thoroughly enjoying the vehicle and since joining this forum I've made a few mods to my Journey and learnt alot from this site. Keep up the great work guys!!!

Hey redtomatoman Thanks for the info mate. I ended up disconnecting and reconnecting the negative from the battery for 10 minutes and it worked. It even kept all my radio settings. It only adjusted the equalizer back and the clock back to 12 which then adjusted itself after a few minutes back to the correct time using gps settings.

Hi guys not sure if there is a topic about this but today I jumped into my car and my phone wouldn't connect. It has on the screen in the phone section "Hands free system loading" and is stuck like that... There is no VR either but everything else is working fine. Is there way to reset the system without having to disconnect the battery. A engineering software factory reset? I'd rather not have to travel to the dealer service agent if not needed. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Blacked out the chrome dodge journey and RT logo.

Blacked out the chrome dodge journey and RT logo.

Wow that looks so pro... gotta say that plastidip is awesome...what a product! Will post some pics when I'm done on the weekend. I think I have the bug now... I heard rumours that dodge was looking at bringing out an SRT version of the Journey in the US next year...have you guys heard anything? We'll never get that here. Its funny when I bought the journey...I'd done my research on the web prior and saw the us market rated it really well... when I got to the dealer I asked how come this car doesn't get much attention. The dealer said in Australia its all about Jeep, then Chrysler, then Dodge.. for Chrysler Australia, the Journey had no advertising only on Nitro when it was around..but now Fiat are here they're pushing the hell out of Freemont.. which is the same car but smaller engine, they only have the 2.4l version here. The journey is 3.6l and has a lot of balls! The only thing that annoys me a little is that Uconnect needs to be able to run videos from usb not just DVD.. especially in this day and age! where to keep the kids happy on long trips I could have a hdd or usb stick loaded with movies rather than taking DVDs in the car.

I did a bit of research on plasti-dip (as I'd never heard of it before..) and decided to give it a try on the emblems.. looking up pricing, it is so cheap in The States. ?.In Australia it cost me $30 a can! and to make things worse, the are only 2 distributors and 1 chain car store AND it wasn't the easiest to find...but finally located a reseller and purchased it today. ?. Was gonna wait till the weekend but was too excited to see how it works! I decide to try it out on the Dodge emblem. wow how easy is it to use! The only problem is the amount of time between each coat. I did 5 coats..2.5hrs later! But am really happy with the results. Just have the other badges to do... will update with a few pics when it's complete. I'm waiting for some badging that I've ordered to come which I think will give it that final touch.. can't wait! Once it's done I'm hoping it will be the only one like it in Australia. Thank you for the advice and for introducing me to Plasti-dip.

Thanks for the tips and help. Problem is the handles are for left hand drive. The rear passengers will be fine but the driver door is on the opposite side and with the lock and buttons it will be on the wrong side.(Remember we drive on the other side here) Maybe I'll do the vinyl thing and wrap them or at least a percentage of the handle. Thought Id try wrapping black with 2 small RT stripes across the grips..what do you think... too tacky?

Hey onecrazyfoo4u thanks for the compliment. Both the rims and the grill were painted and baked. The stripes are just car vinyl wrap in gloss took the angle from the red stripes in the badge. (plasticdip not sure what that is sorry.?) I don't want to spray the handles as they will wear quicker and don't know how hard it would be to wrap over. I asked the wrap guys and they said it would be okay but I'm not sure. The other thing I was thinking is to spray the brake calipers red, and get the badging black. (The Red will be matched to the Red in the Dodge logo). I had a few nice comments. I don't wanna over do it...Its the less is more theory. Lol

Hi guys newbie here. I have a 2012 RT model. I made a few modifications to give it a unique touch. Firstly in Australia we don't have the "blacktop edition" so this is what I done so far. Blackened the rims, blackened the grill, black RT stripes. What I'm trying to locate is black handles but no luck! (Finding heaps of chrome though!) I'm am thinking of replacing the Chrome lettering on the back of the car to black as well. I think it looks quite stealthy...Any other suggestions?