If No Advanced Auto Follow Cruise Control, etc. Is Spec'ed On Order, Does The JT Windshield Still Have a Camera?

[MOPAR Boy]

Just imagine the fun you could have with a chaff dispenser! Let's see-paper shredder, aluminium foil, CO2 cartridges.....

Good one! But that stuff is designed to avoid detection. With the size of the Codan HF antenna on my front bumper, my JT will stick out like a sore thumb from miles away!

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[Sorbs]

I believe the windshield glass has a special coating for the camera to properly look through it that is not present on the non-camera equipped vehicle.

Your belief is misguided.

 

[flyil]

Adaptive Cruise Control is really cool. I recommend doing whatever it takes to check that box. My dealer told me all of those modules are in the box under the rearview mirror so it probably won't conflict with your antenna.

 

[MOPAR Boy]

Adaptive Cruise Control is really cool. I recommend doing whatever it takes to check that box. My dealer told me all of those modules are in the box under the rearview mirror so it probably won't conflict with your antenna.

The issue is the ACC system uses, and relys upon, the windshield camera, which is partially obscured (and 'fooled' by) the large Codan HF antenna body, which is mounted on the front right bumper. The fact that the brains of the ACC may be mounted inside the box behid the widnshield is not the point. This has no effect on, or from, the HF antenna. It's the fact that the camera is optically partially blocked, and obscured by, the antenna's large physical chassis.

 

[AggieJeep]

The issue is the ACC system uses, and relys upon, the windshield camera, which is partially obscured (and 'fooled' by) the large Codan HF antenna body, which is mounted on the front right bumper. The fact that the brains of the ACC may be mounted inside the box behid the widnshield is not the point. This has no effect on, or from, the HF antenna. It's the fact that the camera is optically partially blocked, and obscured by, the antenna's large physical chassis.

I think you are missing the point others are making. If you don’t activate the ACC, the HF antenna does not matter. You don’t need to de-power the gear in the windshield box, just don’t use the features. Turn off the FCW, etc. in the UConnect screens.
I think you are over-thinking this. Just don’t use / disable via UConnect while you run with the HF mounted. Then enable / use them when you remove the HF antenna and hand the truck off to another driver.

 

[jsalbre]

For clarification purposes, no US Gladiators have any front parking sensors. Also, the adaptive cruise control and collision warning system uses a radar sensor behind the windshield, not the camera. The camera is used for auto-high beam control (and lane keeping in other vehicles that use the same system, such as Ram trucks).

 

[Free2roam]

Worried about a Jeep windshield? I bet this one will cost you waaay more to replace.

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