2025 Tungsten - Good/Bad

[Hoeser]

Sorry you're dealing with these things. It's disappointing.
I can confirm I have the same with #1. I haven't mentioned it b/c I thought I was imagining it. But your description is spot on. I tend to use Apple CarPlay, and use Pandora. The dropouts don't make any sense at all, especially when I'm out of cell coverage and using offline music.

I think it's some kind of poorly coded CPU interrupt handling within the uConnect software. I have mostly been using wireless and trying to spot a trend, it really seems like it happens more when driving in the city which makes me think it has something to do with the Nav software tying up the CPU handling the infotainment. When I'm doing long stints on the highway in rural areas the drop outs are much less frequent. I think most people would think it has something to do with interference - but it definitely is not.

Purely just a hypothesis at this point but I've had enough people report the same thing that I know this is a universal issue with Rams and not unique to my truck or even the Tungsten in general... so far I've talked to 4 tungsten owners confirming the same issue, and 1 longhorn owner.

I've seen so many threads like this as well - Audio glitchy with carplay, low tire warning since uconnect update this week - but they never end with a solution and always seem to derail into other carplay related issues. I think this skipping audio bug has been around for quite a while on uConnect.

 

[Ramboy13]

I've been reading all the issues here, and knocking on wood multiple times a day. Today on a drive home the FCW "OFF" light came on. A few minutes later I got an alert that autobraking was disabled. When I got home, I parked it, shut it off, and went to get the manual to figure out what the icons were. When I started it back up, they were gone. I'd LOVE to think and hope that was a one-off, but with two previous Rams, my experience has been that they usually come back, and get worse. I'll wait to see if (when) it happens again, and then I'll ask the forum for thoughts. I dread taking this to a dealer.