I brought a 2010 1500 laramie and it came with the REN radio and the dealer sold me a upgrade to the RER nav unit and rear view camera for the same price as factory installed. So the new RER nav unit came in today and I went get it installed with the rear view camera and now the I-Pod integration does not work with the dealer installed RER nav unit. The I-Pod soft button is not even on the screen when the I-pod is hooked up. And the stupid service tech is saying that he talked to mopar and they told him that the I-pod intergration will not work since the RER nav unit was not factory installed. It just don't make no since to me why it would work fine with the REN non-nav radio that came with the truck but it won't work with the RER nav radio. The wiring is already there in the glove box for the I-pod from the factory and it worked fine with the REN radio. Some please shed some light on this for me since the dealer service techs are no help.
bdugas
The only reason I can think off the top of my head for it not to work would be if the RER you have is a 2008 or older version that doesn't support ipod integration. I don't have all my info here at home but I can look farther into it tomorrow at work.
I did a search online and read on this guy's page http://home.comcast.net/~mr.scsi3/RER/rer_facts.html that there are 2 versions of the head unit for every year. That there is a "slow" and a "fast" version and it has to match whatever "speed" your truck's electronics are. So maybe they ordered the wrong version of the radio?
They're most likely referring to the bus speed at which the radio communicates with other modules. CAN B is the older setup that uses a slower speed (83.3 kbps) than the newer CAN IHS (125 kbps).
All the RER radios from MY 2009 and up are ipod compatible. Something's not right with what they're doing.
That's the only difference from the user perspective. But, the RER has the UConnect Bluetooth module built into the radio. The UConnect module is what controls the iPod.
The REN does NOT have the UConnect module built in. If you get a truck with a REN and UConnect from the factory, then the UConnect module (which, again, controls the iPod) is mounted to the right cab wall, behind the lower glove box.
The 2010s with the RER come with wiring already run into the upper glove box to plug into an iPod. That wiring, behind the glove box, merges into the truck's wiring harness. It does not just run from the back side of the glove box straight over to the RER radio. That is probably why the Mopar person is telling him it won't work. But, I would think you could get the normal iPod integration cable that would plug into the RER from an '09 model and it should be able to plug into the back of the RER and then you can route that into one of the glove boxes or even back to the center console.
The REN does NOT have the UConnect module built in. If you get a truck with a REN and UConnect from the factory, then the UConnect module (which, again, controls the iPod) is mounted to the right cab wall, behind the lower glove box.
The 2010s with the RER come with wiring already run into the upper glove box to plug into an iPod. That wiring, behind the glove box, merges into the truck's wiring harness. It does not just run from the back side of the glove box straight over to the RER radio. That is probably why the Mopar person is telling him it won't work. But, I would think you could get the normal iPod integration cable that would plug into the RER from an '09 model and it should be able to plug into the back of the RER and then you can route that into one of the glove boxes or even back to the center console.
All that said, I suppose it's possible that, because of the way the 2010s come that already have the RER, the connector that plugs into the back of the radio might already be filling the hole where the iPod cable would normally go. If that's true, then you may be screwed. They would need to make a new iPod cable that is made to plug in between radio and the wiring harness plug for the radio.
They should be able to take the HFM out of the loop and install the integration cable for the RER, I would think.
BDUGAS I think this will do the trick its a new part....
http://www.mopar-accessories.com/en-us/imagehandler.ashx?id=14697
http://www.mopar-accessories.com/en-us/imagehandler.ashx?id=14697
The iPod controls DO control the iPod. From the screen of my REN, I can browse my iPod by Genre, Artist, Album, Song, Podcast or Playlist and play any of them, and set it to Shuffle or not Shuffle.
i think i see two different part numbers at the plant it runs from the rear view mirror down to the ip on the pasenger side
That would be the microphone for a REN. The microphone for a RER should run from the mirror to the radio itself, I think.
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