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[Sal731]

Yeah I guess it’s just the nature of the beast. I ordered granit and I did get night edition. I’m sure I’m gonna love it

 

[Cliffrunner88]

I like the hydro blue but I don't think it is available on a Limited. Delmonico Red really made me second guess black but I went ahead and got black.

My only wish is with the night package, make the grille and mirrors the truck color. Black out the badges and the wheels but I think it would look a lot better than a black grille surround

My brother popped off his black mirror caps on his mustang and replaced them with body color matching mirror caps. I wouldn’t even be able to tell otherwise.

 

[Cliffrunner88]

There was talk several months ago about late 21s getting it. Hope it ends up that way, mine should be one of the last batches of 21s.

Talk from who? I haven’t heard about this.

 

[Sal731]

I think if you look back they were saying it would be available for the 20’s. Never happened. Than they said 21’s. Never happened. It is going in the 22’s. My rebel isn’t built yet but I’d probably have a better chance of hitting the lottery than my rebel coming with uconnect5

 

[Cliffrunner88]

There was talk several months ago about late 21s getting it. Hope it ends up that way, mine should be one of the last batches of 21s.

I mean, don’t get me wrong, that would be fantastic, and I would certainly love Ram even more for it. But I just don’t see them giving away the Uconnect5 feature away for free on 21s when it could be a big selling point for you to buy a 22 instead.

 

[Sal731]

No doubt. Watch the video when you google it Chrysler has had it for a couple of year but they kept putting off putting it in rams till 22’

 

[Sal731]

I wouldn’t complain if mine was built with it but unless they run out of 4’s we won’t see them till someone shows up with a 22’

 

[Sal731]

I’m gonna try to keep my rebel until the 6th gen shows up. Who knows when that will be

 

[Cliffrunner88]

No doubt. Watch the video when you google it Chrysler has had it for a couple of year but they kept putting off putting it in rams till 22’

Yeah makes you wonder why. Like they didn’t have much planned for 22 so they decided to save it for this upcoming year instead of making the 21 too good, lol.

 

[Hemidakota]

Guess I don't know what the hype is all about with Ucon5

 

[Oilslick]

I just got a text from my dealership today (5-19-21) that my Bighorn 1500 BTS edition went to JB status.

Ordered 3/17. D status and VIN on 3/18. D1 status on 5/10. Build sheet on 5/17 and then JB status today 5/19. No window sticker yet though.

UPDATE: I just received my window sticker today (5/23/21).

 

[Sal731]

Uconnect5 will be hands free CarPlay and better all around as far as response

 

[Cliffrunner88]

Guess I don't know what the hype is all about with Ucon5

So here are the new things for Uconnect 5 and (at least my opinion) how "neat/relevant" they are:
1) Personalization (up to 5 different user profiles): Not really that important. I mean, who else is going to be driving your truck? haha
2) Personalized/customized home screen w/ cards: Meh. I'm sure the standard home screen layout is fine.
3) Better hardware for faster operating response time: I haven't had any previous Uconnects in my 2005 Mitsubishi Eclipse so I can't really speak to this, but if it's like a new cell phone upgrade every year where the device is "30% faster" or "6 times faster" or w/e...I'm sure I won't be able to tell the difference.
4) Alexa commands in the car or from the house to the car: This is actually pretty cool and something I wish I would get but it is certainly a convenience thing and not something that should make or break the truck purchase, right?
5) Wireless Apple Carplay and Android Auto: This is definitely something that would just make hoping in and driving "easier" rather than plugging your phone in, because that takes an extra 7.5 seconds from your morning/afternoon. But I've seen a whole thread dedicated to this dongle that plugs into the truck and when you get in it connects wirelessly to your phone, so correct me if I'm wrong here but the industry gave us a fix to this before Ram did for approximately $100.
6) Better voice recognition and microphone placement for rolling with the windows down...and the ever so deafening rain on the windshield(?): Again, first time getting into a new vehicle in 15 years, with the exception of my wife's 2015 Nissan Pathfinder, so someone else is going to have to tell me if the current 2021 voice recognition and microphone placement is detrimental to the point of non-usability. I will say though that the 2015 Pathfinder voice recognition was pretty terrible and we never even tried using it after the first 3 days, but to be fair, I think that was still before this technology was really all that improved.
6a) Wake up word for your truck "Hey Ram, change the temperature to 70 degrees": Ok ok, pretty neat and it keeps your hands on the wheel and your eyes on the road, or your knee under the wheel and your hands on your burger and fries but still. Although, I'll be more impressed when I see a list of what's capable with this feature. If all I can do is change the temperature, well, I smell a gimmick.
7) Connecting 2 phones via Bluetooth simultaneously: Is anyone wanting/needing this? I thought the rule was that the driver controls the radio...
8) Tom-Tom map and navigation: Wait, I thought we were getting Uconnect 5 for the wireless Apple Carplay and Android Auto so we could use our phones navigation? But boy that 3D map navigation sure did look cool. If only I lived somewhere that had buildings tall enough to make 3D...
9) Dynamic range to tell you how far you can get until your E really means E: Ok you got me here. This one is pretty freaking cool. If I took a lot of long trips to random places this would be sweet, but I pretty much have my set places of travel and I know how far I can go (and before y'all say anything, yes I will have to relearn this distance in the new truck). But generally, even if I'm just cruising down the road and not really paying attention, the little beep and the subsequent yellow gas light comes on in plenty of time for me to find a gas station...I haven't ran out yet.
10) Multi-lane guidance: Again, Google maps anyone? I would have to check but I think Apple maps does this now too.
11) The Uconnect Market in-vehicle commerce platform for ordering food and reserving tables: Just taking a poll here, how many people live in an area where this is even usable? I'm fairly small town and it's easier/quicker to just call on the phone to make a reservation than finding the restaurant in an app and searching for a table reservation just to find out they don't support that and then having to call anyway...but maybe all you big city slickers just wet your britches a little when you saw this feature, lucky you.
12) 4G LTE Wi-Fi hotspot: Only 4G?? This is a 5th gen Ram in 2022, 5G or bust people! The payments on this baby is going to be enough, I don't need another data plan for my truck, lol.
13) Over the air updates: For when they got it wrong on rollout! haha
14) Telematics Box Module: Are they saying this will eventually allow an over the air update that will allow my truck to drive itself? Could it be possible, maybe. Would they just throw this out there for free? I doubt it. I'm not sure it wouldn't need some more sensors or controls anyway. Besides, I'm pretty sure we're another 10 years out before self-driving cars are truly mainstream, and I'm willing to bet just about anyone reading this forum would rather drive their truck themselves than let a computer have all the fun.

I guess to sum it up, if I had to pick one feature to sell Uconnect 5 on, it'd be talking to Alexa when I get lonely in the truck by myself...

Ok guys, really sorry this turned out to be WAY longer for a response than I thought when I started, but that's my take on the improvements for the 2022 with regards to just Uconnect 5. I would really like anyone else's perspective in case I'm way off base or someone can convince me that Uconnect 5 is indeed worth its weight in gold and I just don't know it yet.
I also realize this is probably...definitely the wrong thread so I'll post this over in the Uconnect 5 thread also.

 

[Sal731]

Bro calm down. Breathe brother. So what uconnect5 is better than four. It’s the way of the world. There are useless things in every bodies cars and trucks. If you really felt that way just buy an eighty eight pick up truck with roll up windows. While your at it throw your remote out for your tv and just get up to change the channels. . Things get better. Expect new technology in every new model year. Do you really need your cup holders in your center consul to slide. Probably not but if you didn’t have a ram you couldn’t do it. If you don’t have a Chevy or gmc you don’t have a 6.2 under the hood. Unless you have a TRX. It is what it is. 22 has to be better than 21. 23 will be better. Ect……………….

 

[Mate514]

I would wait at least 2 years before getting Uconnect 5.... Let them resolve the countless bug they're going to find. But if you wanna be the guinea pig.....

 

[Cliffrunner88]

Bro calm down. Breathe brother. So what uconnect5 is better than four. It’s the way of the world. There are useless things in every bodies cars and trucks. If you really felt that way just buy an eighty eight pick up truck with roll up windows. While your at it throw your remote out for your tv and just get up to change the channels. . Things get better. Expect new technology in every new model year. Do you really need your cup holders in your center consul to slide. Probably not but if you didn’t have a ram you couldn’t do it. If you don’t have a Chevy or gmc you don’t have a 6.2 under the hood. Unless you have a TRX. It is what it is. 22 has to be better than 21. 23 will be better. Ect……………….

Naw I was just saying that I’m not really sure there was anything all that special about it. That I could tell at least. But not having any before maybe I just didn’t know.
seems like a lot of people in the forum here get a new truck every few years and so have way more experience than I do

 

[nc_beagle]

Hey does anybody have regrets with options ordered or not ordered? I’m second guessing the granite crystal metallic. I definitely wasn’t going black cause it shows everything. Although I do love black. It looks awesome when cleaned daily. Didn’t want billet because wife’s Durango r/t is billet. Didn’t want to be fire chief so I didn’t do red. I couldn’t get a good read with the steel. I’m thinking I should have went with the crazy bright blue. That color is really growing on me. Only reason I’m second guessing granite is cause the sometimes it looks like the black around the bottom and the night edition just gets lost vs some of the other colors make the black really stand out. But I ordered the granite so that’s what I’ll have. Like I said just too much time waiting to make you second guess. Also probably should have gotten the rear view camera mirror

Granite was my original choice but decided on the blue--hope it's not crazy bright--even though it's really close to my wife's Volvo. I was able to add the technology package about two weeks after ordering without any problem though you might be too far along in the process.

 

[nc_beagle]

I had my salesman park a steel next to a granite since the website photos aren’t very good. Settled on the granite but switched after the order to the delmonico red only because I was promised the possibility of getting lucky someday with my wife if did.

I'm not a GMC fan, but I love the commercial they run at Christmas where the guy buys a truck and an SUV for him and his wife and the wife runs and takes the truck that he wanted.

 

[jimothy]

Hey does anybody have regrets with options ordered or not ordered?

The problem with the long wait for an order is it gives plenty of time for second guessing.

There’s no option I wish I had ordered, but didn’t. I do, however, wonder if I’ll one day regret ordering the sunroof.

Bigger than that, though, I wonder if I really need a crew cab any longer, with my son going away to college in another year. But the quad cab isn’t offered in the Longhorn or Limited trims, and the tech goodies aren’t available in the Laramie currently, so if I wanted a quad cab with the tech goodies, my only options would be to find one on the lot, or wait, perhaps a year.

So all-in-all, I’m sure I’ll be happy with my truck, even if it’s more than I actually need.

 

[fast ed]

I do ram chat every day

how do you contact ram chat?