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    2025 Battery Issues

    My start stop ‘works’ but as I intended it to work. I installed a start stop eliminator a month or so after purchase early in 2024. I think it was the one from 4D tech but I’ve used one from the Start stop eliminator on other cars as well. All it does is default off. I can push the button if I...
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    2025 Battery Issues

    I laughed out loud when you spoke about actually doing something with an advisor. Even if they were wrong. My dealership turns their advisors over every 3-6 months and their “knowledge” is less than any person off the street about the trucks. They give you watered down versions of what the...
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    2025 Battery Issues

    With so many trucks with battery issues (and even if not), it’s REALLY unfortunate there is no true way for the owner to test a battery to know before hand if your battery is going bad. I’ve read many people who get their battery tested, even by a dealership for it to be tested okay, then...
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    Dead Battery Poll

    Well after having it a day, they came back and said it’s nothing unusual and just put in a new battery and gave it back to me. Got it last night. We will see how this goes ……
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    Dead Battery Poll

    To follow up. The dealer put it on a load test for a period of time. It came back with a code as a bad battery, so they will replace it. BUT, they also detected a draw off the battery causing it to keep waking up. So they are spending time today to try and find what’s causing it. It’s funny...
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    Dead Battery Poll

    2024 Limited, 21 months just under 15,000 miles. No indications of battery about to die, drive it 6 days or so a week. Drove it 3-4 miles early this morning, was in a parking lot a few hours. After starting it,noticed voltage was low (around 11 volts) , as indicator had also gone off for...
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    Ram 1500 2023 etourque - junk

    For me, I'm curious to know how this began, to get the E-torque system installed to begin with. It's fairly new correct? Meaning, was it due to complaints about the abrupt starts due to the START/STOP addition? Was it for improving the fuel mileage (or both) and if so, what real testing to show...
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    Ultimate OBD JScan Thread

    Same as the heated seats. Except those show 3 heat settings. The wheel just one. When you tap it, it lights up for on, then tap again for off. In JSCAN you can select on/off which is the default or high, medium , low, off. As other posters have said, it was something that USED to be able to be...
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    Ultimate OBD JScan Thread

    For the steering wheel, it was Modules, Body Controller, Configuration, then just select the heated steering wheel levels. For the brake light alt blinking (which may even work I just haven’t been able to tell while in the truck just yet), was Adaption, Lights conversion US-EURO, separated...
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    Ultimate OBD JScan Thread

    Can confirm, I just didn’t have the 12 pin connector seated all the way in. Problem solved! Having said that, afterwards, I did cycle the radio twice just to see if my steering wheel heater options would be added per the changes with JSCAN and the answer was no. I’m assuming HSKR R/T was...
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    Ultimate OBD JScan Thread

    I guess I’m basically talking to myself here but maybe someone will have this in the future and will follow along. After lots if internet research there is only one (maybe 2) solutions that makes sense (to solve my error of “SOS call unavailable”. People who,have had this issue with Ram/Dodge...
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    Ultimate OBD JScan Thread

    I can confirm the fog lights stay on with my high beams but as mentioned the steering wheel change did not work and not sure about the break light alternating blinking with turn signal. Having said that, I got this error from my radio (see attached image). I was able to hit okay and it went away...
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    Ultimate OBD JScan Thread

    Good to know. I also turned off the seat belt alarm. Hopefully SOMETHING I’ve done actually works. Guess we may need a new or another updated JSCAN thread of what now does NOT work. @Jimmy07 can you confirm any of this as well? I do have a start stop eliminator but that works because I have it...
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    Ultimate OBD JScan Thread

    Made a variety of changes: steering wheelheater from just on/off to high, med,low ,off, then fog light dropout with high beams, brake light alt blinking with turn signal. Waited about 15-20 minutes started up and did not see the heated steering wheel change. Didn’t check the others. I figured it...
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    Ultimate OBD JScan Thread

    I’m sure I’ll find out on my own when trying this but I assume we don’t have to use AUTO high beams to make/deactivate fog light dropout when turning on high beams? Because I can’t stand auto high beams. They turn on and off at the wrong times in many cases. Thanks
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