Changing One-Touch 'Winker' Signal Duration

[sharpsicle]

On my other vehicles, I was always able to change how long the 'winker' turn signal duration was. This is the three blinks you get when you tap the turn stalk for a lane change. I personally like 5 blinks when this happens, but most vehicles default to three.

In the past I could adjust this either with a timed relay or by replacing the turn signal relay itself with a programmable one. Does anyone know of options to do this on the Gladiator? I do have a Tazer but I don't believe this is a setting that it can change.

I'd like to get it to default to 5 blinks somehow.

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[JTdiRtyD]

I searched about this when I bought my JTRD and could not find anything about changing it.

I think 3 flashes is too few. Every vehicle should be 5 by default. 3 flashes is not enough to signal lane changes, most people are just starting to initiate the change by the time it's done flashing.

 

[Jrgunn5150]

WTF is a turn signal? WTF is a winker?

 

[Sandman 4x4]

On my other vehicles, I was always able to change how long the 'winker' turn signal duration was. This is the three blinks you get when you tap the turn stalk for a lane change. I personally like 5 blinks when this happens, but most vehicles default to three.

In the past I could adjust this either with a timed relay or by replacing the turn signal relay itself with a programmable one. Does anyone know of options to do this on the Gladiator? I do have a Tazer but I don't believe this is a setting that it can change.

I'd like to get it to default to 5 blinks somehow.

My last two trucks, both Colorados a 2016 and 2019, with the tow/haul mode button, if you pushed the button to activate tow haul, the signal would blink 6 times, or regular 3 times. Great when towing. But I’ve found no way of changing in my Gladiator, but it has no tow package or hitch. Just the 4/7 light plug.

 

[GeekJT]

I just tap it, then yank the steering over so my lane change is complete by the 3rd blink. I'm guessing that's what they want you to do, the wife tho, the screaming can get quite loud. She's the indicator the lane change is complete and successful.

 

[ChrisNLA]

I just tap it, then yank the steering over so my lane change is complete by the 3rd blink. I'm guessing that's what they want you to do, the wife tho, the screaming can get quite loud. She's the indicator the lane change is complete and successful.

Depends on my driving at the time.

If my turn signal is 'asking', or the situation really calls for you knowing what I am doing, I just click it all the way into the 'on' position.

On the other hand,

If I'm getting over regardless of another persons feelings about it, they get three flashes. When those three flashes occur in relation to my lane change is your problem, not mine. I am only sort of attempting to meet the legal obligations of signaling while moving to occupy another space.

Sometimes, I do not want you to know what I am doing because you likely do not want me to do it - so you get minimal warning

 

[Gvsukids]

I would like to change it too. I wonder if Taser has that option. Not sure

Nope. No way to change the turn signal.

https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/forum/threads/turn-signal-woes.34604/

 

[sharpsicle]

Nope. No way to change the turn signal.

https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/forum/threads/turn-signal-woes.34604/

That's an old thread. One could ask if something might have changed in the last 5 years.....

Plus that thread isn't talking about changing the duration. It's talking about turning the feature on and off entirely.

 

[Gvsukids]

One could ask if something might have changed in the last 5 years.....

Like maybe with the new Uconnect?

 

[sharpsicle]

Like maybe with the new Uconnect?

Literally anything lol. Uconnect, Tazer, JScan, some hardware method, who knows. That's why I'm asking.

An old thread about some other problem doesn't really help.

 

[jmr]

Seems like it's not configurable.

While the AlfaOBD tool is commonly used to adjust lighting settings, the ability to change the number of lane change turn signal flashes (the "comfort blink" setting) is not a configurable option in the current software for many supported vehicles, such as Ram trucks. This is generally a fixed setting within the vehicle's Body Control Unit (BCU) or Steering Column Control Module (SCCM).
The number of flashes is typically fixed at three and cannot be altered using AlfaOBD or even dealer tools. Users on various forums have discussed this limitation, confirming that the setting for the number of flashes is not exposed as a user-adjustable parameter in the software for their vehicles.

 

[Dummy SALAPA]

I just hold it slightly and it will keep blinking. Or sometimes Ill just hit it again consecutively and get 6 blinks out of it.

 

[Red Hot Sloth]

I had come across the setting on my Tazer to turn it off/on but theres not an adjustment for how many times it blinks.

 

[WILDHOBO]

On my other vehicles, I was always able to change how long the 'winker' turn signal duration was. This is the three blinks you get when you tap the turn stalk for a lane change. I personally like 5 blinks when this happens, but most vehicles default to three.

In the past I could adjust this either with a timed relay or by replacing the turn signal relay itself with a programmable one. Does anyone know of options to do this on the Gladiator? I do have a Tazer but I don't believe this is a setting that it can change.

I'd like to get it to default to 5 blinks somehow.

I agree that it’s short on the Jeep. I find myself holding it through the lane change.

 

[WILDHOBO]

Depends on my driving at the time.

If my turn signal is 'asking', or the situation really calls for you knowing what I am doing, I just click it all the way into the 'on' position.

On the other hand,

If I'm getting over regardless of another persons feelings about it, they get three flashes. When those three flashes occur in relation to my lane change is your problem, not mine. I am only sort of attempting to meet the legal obligations of signaling while moving to occupy another space.

Sometimes, I do not want you to know what I am doing because you likely do not want me to do it - so you get minimal warning

Ah. Florida drivers. That takes me back.

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