I've only recently signed onto HD Rams though I've been reading as a lurker for a while. I recently traded up my 2018 4G 2500 Laramie to a 2019 4.5G 3500 Limited - Canadian spec in the frozen north of Alberta. Fairly happy so far but there has been one major annoyance that I feel the need to ask answers and rant about. Skip the first para if you're not into rants...
WTF does some non-motor brained genius in Ottawa think they are providing the way of safety with Daylight Running Light legislation? DRLs have become common place all over the world and started to good effect in Scandinavia (check out Saabs and Volvos from the 60s& 70s) and I can see that a vehicle with DRLs stands out more than a vehicle without. Unfortunately Canada applied this idea with usual Liberal sledgehammer to crush a nut and the situation my 2019 LED equipped Ram 3500 finds itself in, is have the headlights on all the time. Way to go Canada! You just made every motorcyclist in the world (where there have been no lights off option for a few years) less visible and more vulnerable. Apparently this is because the DRLs fitted to 4.5G Rams are not bright enough to be DRLs (where clearly the amber DRLs on the 4G trucks were fine). That also means that you will be able to see when darkness falls which is good, but if you don't have the switch set to 'auto' you won't have any tail lights showing (that bit I place firmly in FCA's court - which genius thought not having tail lights with headlight was a good idea?). But, if you go into a bank of fog and think 'Hey, I have fog lights! I should turn off my headlights to cut down glare and use the edge viewing fog lights to reach safety' you can't. You can't even turn them off by putting it in park. The only way to turn of full power, dipped beam, headlights when the engine is running its to put on that novelty anachronism (in an auto box vehicle) the parking brake. Why did any of that need to change from the 4G? Has the ignoramus in Ottawa never driven in fog? or behind a dick with no tail lights on? or needed to not shine a million candela at the camper next to them in the dark as you can't turn off the f****** headlights?
I took it to a dealer who said they couldn't fix the headlights to be on only when the switch says headlights because of the lighting regulations They hinted it could be done another way. Is the other way using the AlfaOBD and will that work on a 2019 4.5G truck? Their ad and Google play mentions some blocking software post 2018.
I'd quite like the fog lamps on when high beam is on, too.
Thanks,
WTF does some non-motor brained genius in Ottawa think they are providing the way of safety with Daylight Running Light legislation? DRLs have become common place all over the world and started to good effect in Scandinavia (check out Saabs and Volvos from the 60s& 70s) and I can see that a vehicle with DRLs stands out more than a vehicle without. Unfortunately Canada applied this idea with usual Liberal sledgehammer to crush a nut and the situation my 2019 LED equipped Ram 3500 finds itself in, is have the headlights on all the time. Way to go Canada! You just made every motorcyclist in the world (where there have been no lights off option for a few years) less visible and more vulnerable. Apparently this is because the DRLs fitted to 4.5G Rams are not bright enough to be DRLs (where clearly the amber DRLs on the 4G trucks were fine). That also means that you will be able to see when darkness falls which is good, but if you don't have the switch set to 'auto' you won't have any tail lights showing (that bit I place firmly in FCA's court - which genius thought not having tail lights with headlight was a good idea?). But, if you go into a bank of fog and think 'Hey, I have fog lights! I should turn off my headlights to cut down glare and use the edge viewing fog lights to reach safety' you can't. You can't even turn them off by putting it in park. The only way to turn of full power, dipped beam, headlights when the engine is running its to put on that novelty anachronism (in an auto box vehicle) the parking brake. Why did any of that need to change from the 4G? Has the ignoramus in Ottawa never driven in fog? or behind a dick with no tail lights on? or needed to not shine a million candela at the camper next to them in the dark as you can't turn off the f****** headlights?
I took it to a dealer who said they couldn't fix the headlights to be on only when the switch says headlights because of the lighting regulations They hinted it could be done another way. Is the other way using the AlfaOBD and will that work on a 2019 4.5G truck? Their ad and Google play mentions some blocking software post 2018.
I'd quite like the fog lamps on when high beam is on, too.
Thanks,
