Jeepnoob34
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Gotcha. I didn’t think Jeep offered the lane detection or whatever that feature is that tells you if your drifting out of your lane.Perhaps he means the blind spot warning system, AKA Active Safety Group.
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Gotcha. I didn’t think Jeep offered the lane detection or whatever that feature is that tells you if your drifting out of your lane.Perhaps he means the blind spot warning system, AKA Active Safety Group.
Perhaps he means the blind spot warning system, AKA Active Safety Group.
yes. But I did mis speak. I meant blind spot detection. Jeep does have a lane detection system lane-sense or something like that but it is on grands abs cherokees I think.Probably. The only lane detection is in the ACC, and it's used to determine whether a car is in front of you in your lane. There's no user interaction with the lane detection in the ACC. There's a different option for a warning system that tells you when a car approaches from behind in the lanes next to you, and the same system also alerts when you are backing up and a car is crossing on a potential collision course.
ACC has a huge box on the windshield, which the mirror attaches to. It houses a camera and RADAR. The lane and reverse warning stuff is run by RADAR units in the tail lights, under the big black area on the side of it.
The Dremel is definitely on deck for that mod but I’m hoping someone might have a better, cleaner, solution to the issue. It would be great if someone with some better Mopar parts knowledge may be able to help find a drop in solution to the length of the arm.I dremalled the plastic stub out of the mirror so the mirror could flip on the ball… the detent is not really necessary unless i suppose someone was to spin the mirror multiple times and end up damaging the internal wiring.
THIS!! One of the first things I noticed about the Jeep after having it for a couple day was how low the mirror was. Its very much in the way and I find myself ducking to see below it. Google searching yeilded the "flip" trick, but mainly for the standard mirror guys (and JK's), so I stared at the back of the mirror through the windshield. I realized that with the auto dim mirror, Id only gain maybe a 1/4"-3/8" of "lift" when flipping it, so I haven't bothered. Seems like the folks with the basic mirror get a lot more out of this than the auto dim people, which is a real shame. Being a "free mod", I think Ill get around to this when i find some free time, but I too was poking around for a shorter stalk. As far as I know, the JL and the JT use the same auto dim mirror, so thats no help. The mirror attaches to the ceiling, whereas the windsheild is involved to mount the mirror in "most" other vehicles. I attribute this to Jeep still allowing the glass to fold down. Sigh. I found a fella that measured the ball size and bought a link/ball kit meant for camera equipment. He said that his mirror was a lot higher and out of the way, but the new found vibrating glass had him remove his "mod"....I’m hoping someone might have a better, cleaner, solution to the issue. It would be great if someone with some better Mopar parts knowledge may be able to help find a drop in solution to the length of the arm.