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UConnect + OBDII notification = ALMOST a feature...

Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 9:04 am
by 5chn3ll
UConnect is the infotainment system Jeep uses. One of the cool features of the Jeep integration is that it notifies you when there's any kind of malfunction or safety issue. Tires low? I get an email. Time for an oil change? I get an email.

The system also monitors the OBD-II status and notifies me by email if the car throws code - but Mopar's UConnect landing site doesn't actually display the diagnostic trouble code(s). Apparently only dealers need this "advanced information."

Sure I can just plug in my OBD-II scanner, but...dang it, Jeep, you were SO close.

Re: UConnect + OBDII notification = ALMOST a feature...

Posted: Sat Jun 22, 2019 1:01 pm
by 32wildbilly
5chn3ll wrote: Sat Jun 22, 2019 9:04 am UConnect is the infotainment system Jeep uses. One of the cool features of the Jeep integration is that it notifies you when there's any kind of malfunction or safety issue. Tires low? I get an email. Time for an oil change? I get an email.

The system also monitors the OBD-II status and notifies me by email if the car throws code - but Mopar's UConnect landing site doesn't actually display the diagnostic trouble code(s). Apparently only dealers need this "advanced information."

Sure I can just plug in my OBD-II scanner, but...dang it, Jeep, you were SO close.
THEY don't want to make too easy for you. Then you wouldn't need them. However when the downstream O2 sensor took a crap on my Rav4 they had to disassemble half of the inside tunnel covers because that's where Toyota buried the plug connection. Great engineering.