Recent content by StuartV

Right. And a lot of people who want a performance-oriented truck are going to go with a Hurricane HO. Cheaper and more performance. They already offer the 6.4 in the HD trucks and it is way de-tuned from the same motor in a car. Putting it in a 1500 may not have it de-tuned as much, but it...

I think they made the right choice. Well, I think the RIGHT choice would have been to let the Hemi just stay dead. But, barring that.... I think they recognized that it needed MAJOR updates and that is how the Hurricane was born. I think an updated 5.7-ish liter, naturally aspirated V8 was...

I'm on my 4th RAM 1500. 2009, 2019 (5th gen), 2021, and now a 2025. All of them have been like I described my current one. They all have been consistent in saying that I was getting better mileage than I actually was. And consistent in being inconsistent in how much they're off. Sometimes only...

My '19 Hemi/eTorque averaged 14.1 over the 72K miles that I had it. That was hand-calculated by logging every single fill-up the whole time I had the truck. When people report those really high MPG numbers on a Hemi, if they don't specifically say it was hand-calculated, I just assume it is...

To be clear, that says '25 and '26 RAMs - built before Oct 6, 2025.

Phone on Course Motorsports MagSafe Qi2 wireless charging mount. Running SpectreNav (for iPhone). RD is mounted up high and would be hidden by flipping my sun visor forward. The app on my phone tells me everything that I would get from seeing the RD display.

I had a 2012 Grand Cherokee with a Hemi with start/stop. I hated that. My '19 RAM with Hemi/eTorque was so quiet/smooth (for restarts) that I really didn't mind it at all. My '25 RAM SST HO has start/stop and I have been turning it off every time I drive. The delay on the restart when I take...

The thing is, if they got rid of ALL the "gimmicks", the current Hemi which gets kinda crappy mileage would get even worse mileage. And it would still be a dog of a motor (by current standards). I hand calculated (using Fuelly) every fill-up I ever did in my '19 Hemi/eTorque. Over the 73K miles...

I am GLAD I am not the only one! :D

I bought my first RAM in 2009. I drove Fords for 20 years before that. One thing I have learned is to not buy the first year of any new model. Well, I should've learned. I bought a '25 Limited not realizing that it is the first year of a whole new electrical infrastructure. Generally, (in my...

Okay.... *sigh*.... apparently, somebody slipped a BIG ole dose of Stupid Pills in my drink this week. I am SO dumb sometimes.... I finally realized last night that the problem is not that there is no CarPlay widget. The issue is when you tap Edit Pages and then Create a new Page (or whatever...

Mine might be the same. Probably is. I definitely do not understand why the charger ever gets disabled...

Saturday morning when I started my truck the Uconnect acted like it had received an update. It booted up slowly and then eventually displayed the default home screen layout. I.e. it came up with a 3-pane arrangement. Top half had the factory Nav displayed, bottom left showing Music, bottom right...

Thanks to @Peterhenric in the other thread for posting me a picture! I am a big old dumbA$$!! There are two buttons in the overhead console. I was pressing the one on the right, which turns the interior lights on/off. I never tried the button on the left. I thought that button was to turn...

Okay, I am a big old dumbA$$!! I never tried that button. I thought that button was to turn on/off the mirror auto-dimming. Obviously, I did not look at it closely enough. The button to the right of that turns on/off the interior lights. It never occurred to me that there would be second...