Hi has anyone noticed what appears to be a dead pixel on the dash.. It appears just above the km reading on the display as a white dot. It's random but annoying. Am getting dealer to look at this as well as the dreaded cruise not working tomorrow..
Here is a picture of my dash pixel. Dealership had the factory rep look at my car 2 times for this, both times tech says he will report back and never does. No one has been able to tell me if this is anything to be worried about or just an eye sore.
Sal, I haven't had the issue since the dash screen was replaced, which is about 5,000 miles ago.
Anybody having stuck pixel issues should:
1) Show the stuck pixel to a service adviser, doing the reverse to drive maneuver with Parksense active.
2) Once they verify the stuck pixel, just have them call and confirm with STAR that the screen should be replaced.
3) Go back to enjoying an OCD-free driving experience
Our 11/13 build has the same pixel stuck on at random times issue, in the same spot. I told the dealer about it at our first oil change and they said they would need to replace the cluster, and that the clusters are ordered with the odometer reading set to match at the parts depot, so the vehicle needs to be out of commission from the time they order until the dash comes in, like a week. Sounds like BS to me.
Has anyone heard any official word on this? It sounds like a pretty common issue.
It is a common issue (I have it too), but it's not a hardware issue, it's a software /firmware issue. Unless a non-upgradeable firmware update has been installed on newer build clusters, you'll see it appear again on a replacement cluster sooner or later... working in IT and understanding the frequency of occurrence of this issue, there's no other explanation.
I emailed the Uconnect teams a link of this thread... who knows, maybe they're not aware of the issue. Either way, I'm curious to hear their response and will post any updates I receive to this thread.
That's what they said for mine cluster too. Makes sense if you think about it though, would Chrysler rather have thousands of dealerships have the ability to modify your odometer at the flip of a switch or limit that power to a hundred or so part depots?
Get a free rental from the dealer, get the new dash cluster and go back to enjoying it.
So how long did it take to have the dash replaced? My dealer said it would have to be in for a week while the dash was ordered. It is an annoying problem, but not as annoying as having to deal with a rental car for a week. Perhaps that is what the dealers count on...
No was half a day they asked for my km on the display ordered it from USA with the km mentioned for that day dash arrived with in a week took car to dealer fitted new dash, in half a day. Had travelled more kms but dealer said better to have it fixed and it was only over by a few hundred km big deal all fixed now
It's been at the dealer for nearly a week now. I went on Thursday to check on it. They applied a radio software update that seems to resolve the dead pixel thing. I was running version 13.x.x and the current version is 14.x.x.
I'm still waiting for them to figure out why the navigation does not appear in the EVIC.
I have started to think of this just like the taillights that don't line up right. It is annoying, but definitely not enough to take the vehicle out of use for a week (what our dealer told us) to get it taken care of. If it bugs me while driving, I go through the menus to the "analog" speedometer display, then back to the "digital" display and that pixel gets cleared. It is kind of amazing to me that a software bug that is so easily replicated made it through testing and that Jeep won't recognize it as an issue. I had a friend with another '14 GC try to replicate it on his and it did the same thing. He normally drives around with the "analog" speedo display so he hadn't seen it before. Now it bugs him too... Hahahahahaaaa.
I imagine that somewhere along the way this bug was fixed for production, but they don't feel it is enough of an issue to do anything about unless someone really complains. Nice.
Why did you have hardware replaced for a software bug? Mine never did it until that recall for the cluster requiring a firmware update. Sporadically done it ever since.
Yup, same here. Yay! It is funny how I always noticed it when driving, but didn't notice that it was gone until I saw your post and checked. Uh oh, now I have nothing to complain about...
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