I have just received my new 2025 RAM Tungsten; my first time owning a RAM truck. All of my previous trucks were either Ford F-150/250 or Toyota Tundras. One of the first issues I have with the RAM over the previous trucks I have owned is the lack of a hard-copy manual and user guide for the truck and the 14" UCONNECT 5 system in the new RAM. Having to sit here in the truck cab and pull up tiny screens on my iPhone to try and figure out what the plethora of switches, controls, dials, and then the touchscreen options itself is just brutal for my older eyes! And that leads me into my second issue - how do you increase the default font size on all the screens and maps on the huge 14" touchscreen. I do also realize that I am probably just overlooking something simple and basic as a new owner, but can someone tell me how to increase the default font size on the UCONNECT system. I am positive with all of that HUGE 14" touchscreen space that there has to be a way to make font-size adjustments, but I cannot quickly find it. If anyone has a link to a quick guidance PDF for the new RAM Tungsten and/or the UCONNECT system itself, I would greatly appreciate that as well. Like I said, scrolling through the owner's manual one screen at a time using the RAM app on my iPhone is just flat painful! Can't believe RAM thought it a good idea to skimp out on providing a hard-copy manual for a $90,000 truck! Other than those items, I am enjoying my new truck so far. But of course I still have under a thousand miles on it. We'll see how the first 100K miles go. Hoping to get the comparable reliability to what my F-150s and Tundras provided, but we'll see. The new HO Inline 6 engine is amazing so far. Looking forward to seeing what kind of mileage I get day-to-day once it is broken in good.
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New RAM Owner - 2025 RAM Tungsten
- Thread starter ilatap
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I called Ram/Mopar last week and they sent me a radio manual, ( no charge for both ) but i'm still waiting on the truck manual. It's on back order. I agree there's no reason for the truck not to come with one.
You probably already know but you can see the manual on the Mopar/Ram site on your dashboard. It has helped me alot in the the 3 weeks i've had my Tungsten.
You probably already know but you can see the manual on the Mopar/Ram site on your dashboard. It has helped me alot in the the 3 weeks i've had my Tungsten.
Do you have a phone# for ram/mopar??
Paul B
RAM 5 times
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1 800 399 2668
RAM 5 times
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Let me know when you get the owners manuel and i'll do the same for you since it was on back order as of last week.
Thanks for all the feedback. I guess I wasn't really clear on what I was looking for in my initial request. I do have the very simplistic "Owner Handbooklet" that came with my truck as well as the "Quick Start Guide". I was looking for a 2025 RAM Tungsten Service Manual similar to the old Chilton Repair & Service Manuals that I have for other older vehicles. Those contain much more in-depth information, trouble-shooting steps, electrical schematics, etc. And they would literally walk you through detailed processes step-by-step for each feature and function available on your particular model. The booklet I received does little more than show you a picture of a dashboard icon and tell you the name of it. I have no idea, for example, what triggered a particular warning light, nor what it means when it just goes off on its own a day or two later. Some come on; I stop the truck; turn it off; re-crank it and everything is fine. This has happened at least a half-dozen or dozen times in the first five months that I have had the truck. I hesitate to take it in for service when it has already resolved itself and nothing shows up on the RAM app as far as capturing the event. It seems that this happens most frequently with either the Forward Collision Warning (FCW) alert or the Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) Fault light. But IO have also had two occasions where the engine just seemed to loose 90% of its power while driving down the road for no apparent reason. I pulled over to the side of the road, shut off the truck, waited a couple of minutes, then re-cranked it and everything seems fine again - until it doesn't - which give me very little confidence in the vehicle's reliability. I guess I'll have to carry it in for diagnostics and service, but I'd bet $1,000 they'll say there's nothing showing up - and they would be correct at that particular time. It would be nice to have a bit more knowledge to try and either replicate the issue or at least do some preliminary troubleshooting to have a better idea of what's going on to generate the warning (and then self-resolve).
