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2019 RAM 2500 Owners Manual - INSTRUMENT CLUSTER DISPLAY



INSTRUMENT CLUSTER DISPLAY

Your vehicle will be equipped with an instrument cluster display, which offers useful information to the driver. With the ignition in the STOP/OFF mode, opening/closing of a door will activate the display for viewing, and display the total miles, or kilometers, in the odometer. Your instrument cluster display is designed to display important information about your vehicle’s systems and features. Using a driver interactive display located on the instrument panel, your instrument cluster display can show you how systems are working and give you warnings when they are not. The steering wheel mounted controls allow you to scroll through the main menus and submenus. You can access the specific information you want and make selections and adjustments.

The instrument cluster display features a driver-interactive display that is located in the instrument cluster.

3

Base Instrument Cluster Display

1 – Instrument Cluster Display Controls 2 – Instrument Cluster Display Screen

Premium Instrument Cluster Display

1 – Instrument Cluster Display Controls 2 – Instrument Cluster Display Screen

 

The instrument cluster display menu items may consist of the following:

Speedometer

Vehicle Info

Driver Assist — If Equipped

Fuel Economy

Trip

Trailer Tow

Audio

Stored Messages

Screen Set Up

Commercial Settings — If Equipped

The system allows the driver to select information by pushing the following instrument cluster display control buttons located on the left side of the steering wheel:

Right Arrow Button

Push and release the right arrow button to access/ select the information screens or submenu screens

of a main menu item. Push and hold the RIGHT arrow button for two seconds to reset displayed/selected

features that can be reset.

Left Arrow Button 3

Instrument Cluster Display Control Buttons

Up Arrow Button

Push and release the up arrow button to scroll upward through the main menu items, submenu

screen, and vehicle settings.

Down Arrow Button

Push and release the down arrow button to scroll downward through the main menu items,

submenu screen, and vehicle settings.

Push and release the left arrow button to access/ select the information screens, submenu screens of

a main menu item, or to return to the main menu.

Your vehicle is equipped with an engine oil change indicator system. The “Oil Change Required” message will display in the instrument cluster display after a single chime has sounded, to indicate the next scheduled oil change interval. The engine oil change indicator system is duty cycle based, which means the engine oil change interval may fluctuate, dependent upon your personal driving style.

NOTE:

Use the steering wheel instrument cluster display controls for the following procedure.

Oil Life Reset Procedure

Without pushing the brake pedal, push the ENGINE START/STOP button and place the ignition to the ON/ RUN position (do not start the engine).
Push and release the down arrow button to scroll down- ward through the main menu to “Vehicle Info.”
Push and release the right arrow button to access the ”Vehicle Info” screen, then scroll up or down to select “Oil Life.”
Push and hold the right arrow button to select “Reset”.
Push and release the down arrow button to select “Yes,” then push and release the right arrow button to reset the Oil Life to 100%.
Push and release the up arrow button to exit the instru- ment cluster display screen.

Secondary Method Of Resetting Engine Oil Life

Without pressing the brake pedal, push the ENGINE START/STOP button and place the ignition to the ON/ RUN position (do not start the engine).
Fully press the accelerator pedal, slowly, three times within ten seconds.
Without pushing the brake pedal, push the ENGINE START/STOP button once to return the ignition to the OFF/LOCK position.

NOTE:

If the indicator message illuminates when you start the vehicle, the oil change indicator system did not reset. If necessary, repeat this procedure.

Push and release the up or down arrow button until the desired selectable menu icon is highlighted in the instrument cluster display.

 

Exhaust Brake — If Equipped

Turbo Boost — If Equipped

Oil Life

Fuel Filter Life — If Equipped

Battery Voltage

Push and release the up or down arrow button until the

Gauge Summary — If Equipped 3

speedometer menu item is highlighted in the instrument cluster display. Push and release the right arrow button to cycle the display between mph and km/h.

Push and release the up or down arrow button until the Vehicle Info menu item is highlighted in the instrument cluster display. Push and release the right arrow button to enter the submenus items of Vehicle Info. Follow the direc- tional prompts to access or reset any of the following Vehicle Info submenu items:

Tire Pressure

Coolant Temperature — If Equipped

Transmission Temperature — If Equipped

Oil Temperature — If Equipped

Oil Pressure

Engine Hours

The Driver Assist menu displays the status of the ACC system.

Push and release the up or down arrow button until the Driver Assist menu is displayed in the instrument cluster display.

Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) Feature

The instrument cluster display displays the current ACC system settings. The information displayed depends on ACC system status.

Push the Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) on/off button (located on the steering wheel) until one of the following displays in the instrument cluster display:

Adaptive Cruise Control Off

When ACC is deactivated, the display will read “Adaptive Cruise Control Off.”

Adaptive Cruise Control Ready

When ACC is activated but the vehicle speed setting has not been selected, the display will read “Adaptive Cruise Control Ready.”

Push the SET + or the SET- button (located on the steering wheel) and the following will display in the instrument cluster display:

ACC SET

When ACC is set, the set speed will display in the instrument cluster.

 

The ACC screen may display once again if any ACC activity occurs, which may include any of the following:

Distance Setting Change

System Cancel

Driver Override

System Off

ACC Proximity Warning

ACC Unavailable Warning

For further information, refer to “Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) — If Equipped” in “Starting And Operating.”

Push and release the up or down arrow button until the Fuel Economy menu item is highlighted in the instrument cluster display. Push and Hold the right arrow button to reset Average Fuel Economy.

Current Fuel Economy Gauge

Average Fuel Economy Value

Range To Empty

Push and release the up or down arrow button until the Trip menu item is highlighted in the instrument cluster display. Push and release the right arrow button to enter the submenus of Trip A and Trip B. The Trip A or Trip B infor-

 

Trailer Brake

Output

Type

Gain

Trailer Tire Pressure — If Equipped

mation will display the following:

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Distance

Average Fuel Economy

Elapsed Time

Push and hold right arrow button to reset all information.

Push and release the up or down arrow button until the Trailer Tow menu item is highlighted in the instrument cluster display. Push and release the right arrow button and the next screen will display the following trailer trip infor- mation:

Trip (trailer specific) Distance: Push and hold the right

arrow button to reset the distance.

Push and release the up or down arrow button until the Audio Menu icon/title is highlighted in the instrument cluster display. This menu will display the audio source information, including the Song name, Artist name, and audio source with an accompanying graphic.

Phone Call Status

When a call is incoming, a Phone Call Status pop-up will display on the screen. The pop-up will remain until the phone is answered or ignored.

NOTE:

The call status will temporarily replace the previous media source information displayed on the screen. When the pop-up is no longer displayed, the display will return to the last used screen.

Push and release the up or down arrow button until the Messages Menu item is highlighted. This feature shows the number of stored warning messages. Push and release the right or left arrow buttons to cycle through stored messages.

Push and release the up or down arrow button until the Screen Setup menu item is highlighted in the instrument cluster display. Push and release the right arrow button to enter the Screen Setup submenu. The Screen Setup feature allows you to change what information is displayed in the instrument cluster as well as the location that information is displayed.

Current Gear

Off (Default Setting)

On

Odometer

Unit Without Decimal (Default Setting)

Unit With Decimal

Favorite Menu

Speedometer

Vehicle Info

Driver Assist (Show/Hide) — If Equipped

Fuel Economy (Show/Hide)

Trip Info (Show/Hide)

Trailer Tow (Show/Hide)

Audio (Show/Hide)

Messages

Screen Setup

Commercial Settings — If Equipped

NOTE:

Menus with (Show/Hide) can push the OK button to choose whether to show or hide this menu in the instrument cluster display.

Upper Left

None

Compass (Default Setting) — If Equipped

Outside Temp — If Equipped

 

Exhaust Brake — If Equipped

Turbo Boost — If Equipped

Fuel Filter Life — If Equipped

Upper Center

Time

None 3

Range To Empty

Average MPG

Current MPG

Trip A Distance

Trip B Distance

Trailer Trip — If Equipped

Trailer Brake — If Equipped

Oil Pressure — If Equipped

Coolant Temperature — If Equipped

Oil Temperature — If Equipped

Battery Voltage — If Equipped

Transmission Temperature — If Equipped

Oil Life — If Equipped

Compass

Outside Temp

Time

Range To Empty

Average MPG

Current MPG

Trip A Distance

Trip B Distance

Trailer Trip

Audio

Speedometer (Default Setting)

Menu Title

Upper Right

None

Compass — If Equipped

Outside Temp (Default Setting) — If Equipped

Time

Range To Empty

Average MPG

Current MPG

Trip A Distance

Trip B Distance

Trailer Trip — If Equipped

Trailer Brake — If Equipped

Oil Pressure — If Equipped

Coolant Temperature — If Equipped

Oil Temperature — If Equipped

Battery Voltage — If Equipped

 

Transmission Temperature — If Equipped

Oil Life — If Equipped

Exhaust Brake — If Equipped

Turbo Boost — If Equipped

Fuel Filter Life — If Equipped

Left Side — If Equipped

None

Range

Average MPG

Menu Icon (Default Setting)

Coolant Temperature

Oil Temperature

Transmission Temperature

Oil Life

Fuel Filter Life — If Equipped

Right Side — If Equipped

None

Range (Default Setting)

Average MPG

Menu Icon

 

Average MPG

Current MPG

Trip A Distance

Trip B Distance

Trailer Trip

Coolant Temperature

Trailer Brake 3

Oil Temperature

Transmission Temperature

Oil Life

Fuel Filter Life — If Equipped

Lower Left — If Equipped

None

Compass

Outside Temp

Time

Range To Empty

Oil Pressure

Coolant Temperature

Oil Temperature

Battery Voltage (Default Setting)

Transmission Temperature

Oil Life

Exhaust Brake — If Equipped

Turbo Boost — If Equipped

Fuel Filter Life — If Equipped

Lower Right — If Equipped

None

Compass

Outside Temp

Time

Range To Empty

Average MPG

Current MPG

Trip A Distance

Trip B Distance

Trailer Trip

Trailer Brake

Oil Pressure (Default Setting)

 

Coolant Temperature

Oil Temperature

Battery Voltage

Transmission Temperature

Oil Life

Exhaust Brake — If Equipped

Turbo Boost — If Equipped

Fuel Filter Life — If Equipped

Restore Defaults

Cancel (Default Setting)

Ok

Commercial Settings allows the driver to set and recall addi- tional features when the transmission is in PARK.

Push and release the up and down button until Commercial Settings displays in the instrument cluster display.

This vehicle is equipped with an Intelligent Battery Sensor (IBS) to perform additional monitoring of the electrical system and status of the vehicle battery.

In cases when the IBS detects charging system failure, or the 3

Follow the prompts to enter the required PIN and enter the Commercial Settings submenu.

Commercial Settings allows you to access the following features:

PTO — If Equipped

Remote Ignition

Idle Control

Backup Alarm

Commercial ParkSense — If Equipped

Aux Switches

PIN Setup

NOTE:

If the vehicle’s PIN is forgotten or not known, see an autho- rized dealer to have the PIN reset.

vehicle battery conditions are deteriorating, electrical load reduction actions will take place to extend the driving time and distance of the vehicle. This is done by reducing power to or turning off non-essential electrical loads.

Load reduction is only active when the engine is running. It will display a message if there is a risk of battery depletion to the point where the vehicle may stall due to lack of electrical supply, or will not restart after the current drive cycle.

When load reduction is activated, the message “Battery Saver On Some Systems May Have Reduced Power” will appear in the instrument cluster.

These messages indicate the vehicle battery has a low state of charge and continues to lose electrical charge at a rate that the charging system cannot sustain.

NOTE:

The charging system is independent from load reduction. The charging system performs a diagnostic on the charging system continuously.

If the Battery Charge Warning Light is on it may indicate a problem with the charging system. Refer to “Battery Charge Warning Light” in “Getting To Know Your Instru- ment Panel” for further information.

The electrical loads that may be switched off (if equipped), and vehicle functions which can be affected by load reduction:

Heated Seats/Vented Seats/Heated Wheel

Rear Defroster And Heated Mirrors

HVAC System

115V AC Power Inverter System

Audio and Telematics System

Loss of the battery charge may indicate one or more of the following conditions:

The charging system cannot deliver enough electrical power to the vehicle system because the electrical loads are larger than the capability of charging system. The charging system is still functioning properly.

 

Turning on all possible vehicle electrical loads (e.g. HVAC to max settings, exterior and interior lights, overloaded power outlets +12V, 115V AC, USB ports) during certain driving conditions (city driving, towing, frequent stop- ping).

Installing options like additional lights, upfitter electrical accessories, audio systems, alarms and similar devices.

Unusual driving cycles (short trips separated by long parking periods).

The vehicle was parked for an extended period of time (weeks, months).

The battery was recently replaced and was not charged completely.

The battery was discharged by an electrical load left on when the vehicle was parked.

The battery was used for an extended period with the engine not running to supply radio, lights, chargers, +12V portable appliances like vacuum cleaners, game consoles and similar devices.

What to do when an electrical load reduction action message is present (“Battery Saver On” or “Battery Saver Mode”)

During a trip:

Reduce power to unnecessary loads if possible:


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