ddestruel

took truck in paid the dealership to activate my trucks cols start function.


truck is a 2003 late 03 305/555 with 6spd manual. the clutch pedal safety switch has been bypassed and grounded out. b ut they can not find the feature in the DRB

Can anyone tell me where to find the feature in the DRB. whatg screens do they need to go through what is the name of the feature. they are telling me it is not available. which i have a hard time believing


anyone they said they will try again tomorrow and weds i pick the truck back up friday and its about to spend the next 3 months in northern canada so i would sure like to activate this


comon guys need the help here on this one

vzdude

I can only assume you are talking about the "cold idle" feature. It will idle up when extended idling in cold weather. Several conditions have to be met......no brake pedal input, temp below 32* ( I think ), no apps input, yada yada yada. You don't have the ability to idle it up with the cruise buttons on the 03. People say it won't, but mine has the 3 cyl. idle as well. Sounds wierd! I'll look first thing in the a.m. to go thru the screens step by step to get to the features.

ddestruel

yes the cold idle feature

thank you i sure appreciate it

vzdude

Just noticed your location, so I should have it on there in plenty of time for ya! IIRC you are 3 hrs behind us here in EDST ( eastern daylight savings time) You have to love Indiana, if you haven't heard about it on the news, we just switched time zones earlier this year........some counties are the same, others changed, and all that hadn't before, are now observing daylight savings time! Made for a lot of confused people for awhile! I was in a courthouse that had different offices observing different times because of government funding and such!?!?! Talk about screwed up! At a county fair a kid asked the governor if he knew what time it was where he was at right now........couldn't answer! LOL

vzdude

O.k. here we go from step 1 !

1- Smack vzdude in the back of the head!
2 - remind vzdude that it is automatic on the 3rd gen ( the auto idle up that is)
3 - explain to vzdude that he has a 2nd gen truck in his head! ( they can be turned on and off)
4 - tell vzdude that the 04.5 and up can be turned on to work with the cruise feature

Sorry man, I had severe brain fade last night I guess. I know mine worked, and assumed I had turned it on. I went through every screen today, and it isn't a programmable feature. I'll try to do better in the future!

GreyTD

you may need to have this tsb http://dodgeram.info/tsb/2004/18-004-04.htm done first then they will be able to enable it. Yes it is for an 04, but have them go by the engine serial number as mine is an 305/555 motor also and I got it done.

good luck.

soulezoo

The smarty should do it for you... do you have one of the newer downloads off the website installed? If so, after starting truck, turn on cruise then hit the "set" button once. It should idle up to 1100 rpm.

tcr

Ok, I can't get it through my thick skull Does this feature work on the 03 trucks w/ the 305/555 engine or not?

GreyTD

according to the tsb if your engine falls before the serial number 57130284 or early then yes, which I would think is the late 03's to early 04"s 305/555which need the update first then enabled. 04.5 325/600 have it already and just needs to be enabled. Someone also mention that if you have vaccuum controlled cruise control under driver's side battery then NO it will not work. (read this somewhere can't find it right now)
clear as mud?

tcr

Yeah 10-4, thanks! That rules me out, I've had to replace that d@#n vacuum pump once already.

vzdude

You'll still get the auto idle up though tcr. It's better than nothing!

kris55

Does this cold idle feature come on a 2007 5.9 auto., if so how is it activated?

moterhead

The TSB specificly address '04 MY trucks, not '03s, nor '04.5s. It's my understanding the reason it will not work on a MY '03 is that the '03 software is Chrysler's while the '04's is Cummins. Totally different software so no provision for the feature.

scootertrash35

the auto cold idle is,but the optional high idle has to be engaged

moterhead

I think he means you have to take it to a dealer and have them do it with the computer thing. That's what I had to do on my '04. It's called "activated" not engaged.