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According to the 2012 spec guide for both vehicles, the Avenger has: Front Size and Type 11.5 x 1.0 (294 x 26) vented rotors with 2.2 (57.0) single-piston floating caliper Swept Area (Total Front) 223.5 sq. in. (1442.1 sq. cm.) Rear Size and Type 10.3 x 0.4 (262 x 10) solid rotor with 1.4 (35.0) single-piston floating caliper Swept Area (Total Rear) 138.6 sq. in. (894.6 sq. cm.) And the Journey has: Front Size and Type 11.9 x 1.1-in. (302 x 28 mm) vented rotors with 2.6 (66.0) single-piston floating caliper Swept Area (total front) 231.6 sq. in. (1494 sq. cm) Rear Size and Type 12.0 x 0.47-in. (305 x 12 mm) solid rotors with 1.7 (43.0) single-piston floating caliper Swept Area (total rear) 216.3 sq in. (1395 sq. cm.) So, from what the specs say, the DJ does have slightly larger brakes than the Avenger. Also, after a bit of digging, I found the spec guides for the 2008 Avenger and 2009 Journey; they match what you see above for each vehicle, so the brake sizes haven't changed, apart from those who've noticed that the R/T's have gotten a slight increase in size; I suspect they'll add that to the spec sheets for 2013 as it was a mid year change from what it seems. cheers. Steph S.

Congrats on the new Journey. I believe the only thing you can change to mph is the digital speedometer, for when you're driving in the states. All other readings I do believe are KM. My Bad; sorry. cheers! Steph S.

For anyone that's interested, here's a tire size calculator: http://www.1010tires.com/tiresizecalculator.asp plug in the sizes and it will tell you the differences between them. can also give you a picture of what the profile will look like. cheers! Steph S.

Found this for you: http://www.ehow.com/info_12164279_cars-c-smell-bad.html cheers! Steph S.

only when my daughter gets a hold of my keys.... but for technical problems, no.

Hi Folks, Took the DJ through Gatineau park a couple of times this weekend, which has number of good steady climbs. Trying to keep a steady speed was sometimes hampered with the number of cyclist "sharing" the road (while most were great about it, there were a number of them I was sorely tempted to mow down). In any case, when I happened to hit a patch of cyclist which forced me to slow down, but the DJ didn't downshift when it should have, I tried double tapping the gas within the same average range I hold the pedal at under regular driving, instead of putting it to the floor, or switching to manual, to get it to down shift, and it worked pretty consistently. Has anyone else tried/noticed this? Apart from that I really liked the handling of the DJ in hills. If it weren't for all the cyclist, I could have had a lot of fun . Gas economy was pretty good too. even with all the climbing we did, gas mileage stayed under 11L/100Km. The engine just likes the open road, period. cheers! Steph S.

It's an add-on system that allows you to connect a camera to an existing 4.3 radio. The downside is that for the price, they could have added the camera, or at least added wireless camera support if they want us to buy our own camera. It does not add navigation.

unfortunately I hit the same problem a couple of weeks ago. the only way is to turn the headlights to on, rather than auto or off, which obviously presents its own problems. I ended up just putting my hat over the gauges. My bigger problem was that the electrics would turn off after the set time, even when the car was in acc or in the run position (no engine start).

it will take time to catalogue things the first time, and will depend on the speed of your drive. So did yours see the entire 5500 songs? (ie - start playing one song and check the info, it should show you 1 out of 5500). I just finished my own test, and it was interesting...loaded about 9100 songs@ about 52GB, took less than a minute, but one of the reasons is that it seems to only load up 2000 songs. If I browse the folders, all the files are there, but it will only let me play 1 to 2000. If I try to play any other song after the 2000th, it continues to play the current song. However, if I browse the albums/artists, I've been able to find songs that go past 2000 (although I still can't browse all albums/artist), and I I try to play it, it plays...If I hit next or back, it goes to song 1 or song 2000 respectively... Wow...pretty unbelievable... Otherwise the 2000 songs seem to work well enough.....

I've tried using Linux, but keep going back to Windows because of the apps I use and the compatibility it offer to my clients. I did end up finding a simple app called GUIFormat that seems to have done the job required. Now I just need to wait to be picked up tonight and try it out. Power wise, there should be no issues unless the drive requires more than the 500mA minimum USB2.0 is supposed provide. Seeing as iPod's and iPhones are supported, and they require minimum 500mA, not to mention that it charges my Blackberry, which also requires a minimum of 500mA, I can't see this being an issue. The Drive I picked up last night does use 500mA and is a portable hard drive and not an external Hdd that would require an external power source to work properly. And for me, this isn't a hassle; I'm trying to do this to make it easier for folks determine what will work vs what might work vs what won't work to try and cut down on frustration; it's what I do :D , although it would be nice if Chrysler did this themselves as they should already have this technical information on hand. cheers! Steph S.

Alrighty, more tests done tonight. I unfortunately didn't have any different USB flash drives available, but I did have a number of SD cards available. Ah, but the 4.3 screen doesn't come with an SD Card reader you say? well, I happened to have a spare USB card reader at work that I brought home for the evening . The 3 cards I tested were a Class 2 4GB card, a Class 6 4GB card and a Class10 8GB card. the higher Class number, the better the performance. As I started taking more photographs with better camera's, it became apparent having a faster SD cards was essential when I was doing burst photography, as a toddler waits for no one, least of all Daddy trying to setup a shot... I did do the same test as I did yesterday. I took the 1.85GB/372 music files and dumped them on all the cards after making sure they were all formatted to FAT32. Once the wife came home, I got to work. Plugged the reader into the USB and then plugged the Class6 SD card. The system came to life with the sounds of music. I hit shuffle and jumped around songs for a while, playing different songs at different points and it worked with no issues save the previously browsing issues. I then plugged in the Class 2 card, and as I was expecting, I started getting read errors right off the bat. this time however, I didn't even get a portion of the first song playing, suggesting that this SD card has even worse performance than my 16GB flash drive. I then moved on to the Class 10 card and it started playing almost immediately. I have also have a MicroSD card (8GB Class 2) that I'm going to try later, but I decided to scale up my test and went out and purchased a 500GB Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex drive. Now, I've come across an issue most people won't realize, and won't know how to fix once they do figure it out. Most external Hard Drives (HDD's going forward) will be formatted in NTFS as noted above. However, unless you own an Apple computer or are running Linux, Windows Xp/Vista/7 won't let you format the drive into anything other than NTFS (or exFat, but I won't get into that), at least not the way most people tend to do it. You can only format the drive via Command line. Despite the fact that I work with PC's, this threw me for a few minutes because I've never had to format a large HDD into anything other than NTFS for myself or my clients...never had a reason *shrug* In any case, if you ever need to format a drive that is larger than 32GB into FAT 32, this is how: go to Start and select RUN (for Windows 7 just start typing in the search programs and files area after you press start). Type in CMD and then enter. From there, you can just type FORMAT /FS:FAT32 X: replacing X with whatever drive letter you're trying to format. Then sit back, have a beer, go for a drive (not both, one or the other...geez) and chill for a bit because it's gonna take a while, which is what I'm in the middle of doing right now. Will report back later on the results. Edit: will need to find another way; The format crapped out at one point over the course of the night (well past 50% though was when I went to bed) with a message saying windows could format in fat because the drive is too large...would have been nice to have seen that before I had started . will try to find another app and report back here. Cheers! Steph S.

don't get me wrong, the system is buggy as hell, and having good documentation on the limitations of the system would be fantastic (even the uconnect site is pretty sparse on info, and that goes for the documentation for the system) instead of having to do all this trial and error BS. However, Chrysler is definitely not alone in these types of complaints. ah, but it's specialized, hence the cost

the 255 files per folder limit is definitely not just a dodge journey issue, but more a memory issue seen in most car audio systems.(do a google search, although I'm sure there are exceptions to the rule). The best reasoning I saw was this: 255 is a significant number in electronics. 2 raised to the 8th power is 256. So if the stereo reserved one byte (8 bits) to count songs 255 is a typical limit, found here: http://www.city-data.com/forum/computers/1423055-cars-their-usb-ports-sound-windows.html#ixzz1vhq9W6Y9. One thing to remember, these things are still just music players; they aren't full computers, yet, so they aren't usually equipped with very much memory, and that memory is more than likely shared by all systems (radio, hvac, system settings, etc). In general, there is no software fix for this and audio manufactures would need to increase the amount of ram that their head units have to get around this limitation. However, because most programs like iTunes, Windows Media player, MediaMonkey and the like can sort and organize music files by artist/album/genre/etc at the folder level, the 255 limit shouldn't matter to most people because if you move the music from within the application to a portable harddrive, then it should keep the same structure. If you want to get a general idea on how car audio system might interpret, take a look at this kenwood spec sheet. While our systems are not Kenwood, it's probably very similar as these types of things tend to be pretty standard when it it comes to audio files. As for less problems with iIPods, the reason for this is that the head unit is really only providing the interface; the iPod itself is actually doing most of the work. cheers! Steph S.

4.3 inch screen, 2GB Thumb drive, 1.85GB in music files and 372 songs. Plays the music no problems, all tracks. Browsing is an issue however, in that the only reliable way of browsing all songs is browsing via folders, which I have it sorted by artist, then album, then song, so it keeps it pretty well organized. Browsing any other way is very limited by the software in that it's very buggy. I then took another thumb drive, this time 16GB and loaded it up with the same music; while the system does see the tracks, it plays a few seconds of the first track, then starts cycling through each of the songs, returning an error, unable to read. Now, there are a couple of differences between the drives. The 16GB Kingston is a very basic drive with low average read/write, and the lowest I could format it was FAT32 due to the size of the drive. The 2GB stick is a high performance (for the time) OCZ Rally2 drive I had purchase a number of years ago as a superfetch cache drive for Windows Vista. The other difference is that it's formatted in FAT. I'm going to try formatting the 2GB drive in both FAT32 and NTSF to see if the system can still recognize the files to see if that's the limiting factor, or is it the performance of the drive. cheers! Steph S. Update - Fat32 worked flawlessly, while NTFS produced a "USB Error", the latter being expected. So I'm thinking more that it might very well be that perfomance of the drive is the limiting factor. I'll do some benchmarks on both drives and see what that produces.

while it might have been made by drawtite, the model dodgeman has and the uhaul model you picked up are definitely different. Dodgeman's has fully straight bars from the mounts to the hitch, while yours are bent bars that drop down from the mount, then angles/curves towards the hitch. I believe I found the model Dodgeman bought here: http://www.etrailer....leid=2012201530 which includes a video for installing it if anyone is interested in doing themselves. I have no plans for hooking up a trailer, but I'm looking to install one of these at one point sans wiring harness just so I can tow bicycles (and realizing I really don't have enough room for even one bike in the trunk with the second row up....)

My Caliber was developed something similar a couple of times, on both sides of the car. in our case it was lower ball joint, and while it did rattle on bumps, it was more apparent during stop and goes (could hear a clunk). You could always try jacking up the DJ and with the wheel off the ground, grab the wheel on either side and see if there is any play/wobbliness. if there's any play, then you might have suspension issues.

I don't believe the 2011/2012 would fit in the 2010 or earlier models, at least not easily.; looking at the images of the two, where the floor console meets the center stack, the 2010 runs flush, while the 2011+ goes underneath and connects further back., and I think it runs lower, so there may be a gap. I just don't think it would work without some serious modifications. Personally, the two things I really like with the newer console (apart from the look itself), are the cup holder placement and the armrest storage; The cup holders a bit higher up and the gear shift doesn't seem to intrude over it like the previous versions. With the armrest storage, It keeps the same size I believe, but is not split into two area's, making it easier to store larger items.I don't know if the 2010 or earlier models had the little tray that sits on top to hold loose change/media player, etc..

A powered vanity mirror is on the other side, and I'm not sure how easy it would be to install, but looking at it, it should be pretty straight forward: unscrew the old, decouple the power harness, re-couple the power harness of the the new, screw it back together. As long as you have a powered vanity mirror (it has lights), then the power harness should be there and you'd be good to go. If there is no power harness, then it'd probably be a lot harder to do. Alternatively, if you already have a regular garage door opener, you could do this : http://www.dodgejourneyforum.com/index.php?/topic/1843-diy-garage-door-opener-into-your-overhead-console-wo-homelink-only/ cheers! Steph S.

are you trying to buy one? try this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/09-10-Left-Chrysler-Dodge-Journey-SUNVISOR-W-HOME-LINK-/170625618321?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&vxp=mtr&hash=item27ba145191#ht_6072wt_1127

Congrats Viberts. And, if anyone is wondering about the TI designation: transmission intégrale = AWD.

the Wiki entry on it mentions support for it, while a "fan" page also mentions a quote by Chrysler when the engine was known as 'Phoenix' : Chrysler wrote that: “The new Phoenix of V-6 engines will feature cylinder deactivation (MDS)...the engine will operate efficiently on three cylinders when less power is needed, and in V-6 mode when more power is needed. This optimizes fuel economy when V-6 power is not required – without sacrificing vehicle performance or capability.`` The Info may be a bit dated, which is why I figured I`d ask.

Hey folks, The Pentastar engine does support Cylinder deactivation, but haven't been able to find any info on if the DJ takes advantage of it? Anyone happen to know? cheers! Steph S.

When you have 2 boosters and a car seat, yeah, it can be a bit cramped, and I think it'll be like that for almost anything other than a minivan. But once you drop the boosters, it's really not that bad; took my mom and wife out for mothers day dinner and the 11 year old used the 3rd row for the first time and she was in heaven having the third row to herself, while the wife was in the second row with the 3 year old in her monster car sear, the pull down armrest between them, and mom was up with me. While I can't picture a 3rd person in the second row sitting very comfortably in the middle with the car seat back there, I could still add another person to the rear seats with ease, bringing the total to 6. cheers! Steph S.

and just to back that up,Allpar.com had this mention: "The Challenger SE's 13 horsepower increase over other Pentastar engines is due to "a more aggressively designed intake air system" which increased airflow from 214 to 220 g/s. The cam is identical" So, if you want to get the same HP, try swapping out your air intake :D

Dunno, but I check my oil regularly and never get my fingers dirty; that's what the dip stick is for . Seriously though, having a level indicator would be pretty nice. Regarding oil use in previous posts, I'm just over 3K Km and haven't noticed any oil loss due to use or otherwise. Am so far loving the Pentastar engine. Cheers! Steph S.