The compass in the overhead console has been showing "East" for a couple of months now. It's also showing "Cal" under it. Found a clear parking lot and did the "go in circles till ya puke thing" and it wouldn't budge or recalibrate. Would resetting the system by yanking the battery cables reset the compass?

 

Try the tips here-
http://dodgeram.org/tech/repair/elect/compass.htm

 

Been there, done that. Can't even get it to flash when resetting via the buttons. Guess I'll yank the battery cables for a half hour or so to see if that does the trick.

 

Mine is doing the same thing. Stuck on NW showing CAL. Never changes. Tried the 3, 4 circles in 48 seconds and nothing happened.

Did disconnecting the batteries work?

 

same problem here East only

 

Haven't had time or weather to pull the battery. Plan on doing it the first day I can get out there and not freeze anything important on my anatomy. Figure I'll kill two birds with one stone and tear into the headlight at the same time.

 

anybody ever figure out a solution

 

I've heard that if someone puts a magnetic antenna or one of these magnetic cones that dealer service depts use to number your rig that it can magnetize the roof and make the compass read only one direction. In that case the roof will have to be demagnetized.

 

It's finally warm enough to get out there and work on the truck, but now we seem to have this over abundance of wet stuff. **sigh** Those idiots called weather forecasters are saying maybe it'll be dry this weekend.

 

not a bad job though. $100,000+ per year. great parking spot. doesn't matter if your right or wrong. get to say things like- sun might shine-might not. may rain-might not. and the really cool part is nobody even expects you to be right.

 

any solutions yet?