Recent content by MarkTTU

To me it's worth the less than $100/year to be able to start my black truck while I'm handing my cc to a waiter, or about to leave a job site and the truck is on the other end of the facility, or pulling the boat into the marina and the truck is 1/4 mile away sitting in the sun... Living in the...

My understanding is you'll have to have a subscription in order to setup the digital key, but after that you will not. That said since we don't know what the final version will look like who knows... I had to renew my subscription last week (I do use remote start from my phone extensively) and...

The ability to kill a digital key makes sense. I still contend they could have us log in via the uconnect screen and maintain their ability to wipe a key later if the truck is sold or the system is reset to factory defaults, but honestly that really isn't a huge difference in the back end...

That would be a great option! Or make it a key fob and the NFC card that comes with the truck. Or even just the NFC card. Or heck both keys and the NFC card... at this point I'd be happy with any solution ;)

The security authentication thing makes sense. Seems like a simpler mechanism might be to have you log into your Ram account on the uconnect screen, but I’ll admit I don’t know the technical hurdles they might have with how Apple wants it done.

Yep. I’m guessing the NFC module that makes the digital key stuff work always has power (so that it can function as a key before you turn anything on) and since it has power and knows it’s supposed to talk to your phone which should be a key all that’s working and phones will try to be smart and...

Nope. On the screen in my truck it wouldn't get past wanting me to touch the button in the phone app to add a key and I'm still missing that button in the phone app. I may mess with it again if I can manage to get the phone to recognize it again, was in a hurry when it popped up on me the other...

My 3 month trial for the phone app was expiring the other day so I called in to extend it another 12 months (I use the heck out of remote start on my phone). While I had the guy on the phone I asked about the phone as a key and got told they ran into significant issues when they did the test...

And we are all jealous ;)

I have yet to receive an OTA in my 25 Longhorn that I picked up in March. What are you guys doing to get OTA updates?

Me too!

I don’t think it’s particularly recent. The deal I got this year is very similar to what I was looking at last October through MD. I waited in hopes I could get granite crystal, but eventually just ordered black because I needed a new truck.

I spoke too soon in my post from April 7th. Vacuum hose came off again at around 2,500 miles while driving on I-35 between in Austin. Stopped in at my normal local dealer and while my normal service advisor and I were waiting for a mechanic to come take a quick look (we couldn't find any hoses...

I'm pretty sure you're the unicorn... I would love to have this working, but so far nobody I've talked to knows anything about when, or even if, this will ever get implemented.

The trick is not to ask for $10k off. Instead ask for their price and ask several other dealers for theirs and then be ready to go with the dealer that offers you the best deal. You might find a trip to Louisiana (ie Mark Dodge) to pick up a new truck isn’t all that expensive.