FCA’s newest UCONNECT system
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Re: FCA’s newest UCONNECT system
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02/02/20 10:40 AM
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I am good with it as long as Apple Car Play is supported, which according to the article it is.
We have an 18 Durango R/T and I feel like the Uconnect Navigation is worse than it was on our 16 Journey. We just use google maps through car play for navigation, that works awesome. It won't let you use both the on board nav and nav on your phone if you are plugged in.
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Re: FCA’s newest UCONNECT system
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02/02/20 08:56 PM
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Sounds to me like they just keep on tweaking things til they get them all wrong, plus all the tracking crap is just too much. Nanny state. The navigation on my 2016 Challenger, 2016 300, & 2017 Ram all barely work. You certainly can't use them on the fly when you really NEED them! The nav is useless to me. When I really need it, I pull my phone out.
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Re: FCA’s newest UCONNECT system
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02/03/20 08:24 AM
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They will all track you to some extent, anything with NAV at least. That is a revenue stream that isn't really seen from the outside. The washing post did something recently where they hacked into a Chevrolet car that was a few years old and found out all of the information it sends out. If something is Free you are likely the product.
Now is there some dude in his moms basement watching you go get groceries in your new Ram? No. But I guess if someone wanted to find you bad enough then it wouldn't be hard, through your car, your phone, your smart watch etc.
I'm screwed when it gets easy for the insurance companies to get that info. I like to open the throttle when the road opens, and everything we own has seen its top speed at some point.
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Re: FCA’s newest UCONNECT system
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https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/Though I hadn't touched the dashboard, the vents in the Jeep Cherokee started blasting cold air at the maximum setting, chilling the sweat on my back through the in-seat climate control system. Next the radio switched to the local hip hop station and began blaring Skee-lo at full volume. I spun the control knob left and hit the power button, to no avail. Then the windshield wipers turned on, and wiper fluid blurred the glass.
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Re: FCA’s newest UCONNECT system
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02/03/20 08:37 AM
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I'm screwed when it gets easy for the insurance companies to get that info. I like to open the throttle when the road opens, and everything we own has seen its top speed at some point. Remember the bit in the movie 5th Element - traffic tickets popping out of the dash board? The part they probably got wrong was that the ticket would be emailed to you. I recently noticed that google maps will occasionally display the speed limit of the road I'm on. How long can it really take before that data stream gets connected to a vehicle speed governor?
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Re: FCA’s newest UCONNECT system
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02/03/20 12:18 PM
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U connect is pretty highly rated, which tells you how bad the others are lol.
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Re: FCA’s newest UCONNECT system
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02/04/20 09:47 AM
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In 2010 my 80 yr old mother bought a brand new 300 signature edition w/ Nav. She'd use it but never went where it told her because she knew a better route. She'd go on a rant about how dumb the thing was. I could never understand why she even bothered with it. I'm pretty sure she just liked having somebody to argue with.
When my girl was looking at a 12 200 I did the research about what to look out for - the common problems they might have. Ended up down a rabbit hole of threads about reverse engineering the CAN bus messaging system. It all made perfect sense to me because on a top level view it works exactly like telecom systems from the late 70s that I used to work on. For a while I considered hacking the part of the uConnect that sends out maintenance reminder emails. The idea was to have the car randomly send her emails like "Hey, put my top down!".
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Re: FCA’s newest UCONNECT system
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02/04/20 10:11 AM
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I usually always know a better route than the GPS when in my Local area. But, when you don't know the route at all the best route is the one that gets you there.
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Re: FCA’s newest UCONNECT system
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02/05/20 08:59 AM
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Our 2014 patriot has had 2 uconnect systems fail over the past 5 years. First one was under warranty, they want $1400 to replace the second one. We are fighting with Fiat over this one.
My research online had shown a high reported failure rate among the uconnect head units, so when we ordered our 2019 classic RAM for the business, we got it with the lower end “radio 1.0” without all the wizzy tech features. That just at 13,000 mi, & is going in to the dealer to be replaced today. If another one fails once the truck is out of warranty, we will be putting an aftermarket unit in because it seems obvious Fiat is sourcing their radios from the lowest Chinese bidder...
Last edited by Not_A_Duster; 02/05/20 09:17 AM.
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