I looked at infotainment upgrade package at 2500 bucks and thought that is way too expensive for wanting apple carplay android auto. I saw they were using the Uconnect
Dodge 4C UAQ 8.4 Inch Uconnect Radio Navigation Touchscreen Apple CarPlay so I bought a used Challenger hellcat navigation system for 1100 bucks.
The unit is plug and play. But there are some items to note. Most of the units on ebay you don't know if they came from a Durango jeep hellcat charger whatever dodge product. I got lucky and got a hellcat one so the the performance pages were intact. The only thing you lose is the viper symbol logo on the performance pages but with the upgrade you get the following:
1. Android auto full functionality
2. Apple car play.
3. XM Travellink with high resolution pinch to zoom maps and traffic and weather for free.
4. Factory xm radio for free.
5. High definition navigation screen.
6. Better music quality and xm functionality
7. Lots of cool features
All dodge vehicles have a media hub. Most of the guys doing this were in the hellcat Challenger jeep ram forums. They had to upgrade their media hubs, which is the SD card USB plug aux in port, but I used my old one from the 2014 viper and AA Acplay both work!
The Uconnect horn lights location send destination functionality still works too if Uconnect sent you the old tmobile old dongle even with the new UAQ 4C radio that uses XM travel link and XMguardian. I know no one has gotten xm guardian to work as a retrofit but who cares.
There are many UAQ 4C navigation but pay attention to the mounting bracket because you may have to use a dremel on the new radio to make it fit in our dashboards.
I also upgraded my sabelt black interior to sepia and my old RA3 Uconnect had a weird issue where I could here a whirring sound 24/7 like.it never shut off which was causing a parasitic battery drain.
I think with a tazer Google it you could enable performance pages to come back and maybe even get the viper symbols on the pages and may do that. If you Google "upgrading 8.4 RA3 Uconnect to UAQ 4C RA4 Uconnect there are thousands of Mopar owners who have done it. I needed a new navigation system regardless so I figured why not try a 2018 radio? It worked and now when I go on long drives Google maps reroutes me with the best route! Plus the music surround system upgrade is unbelievable in the 17 speaker system. A huge difference. Plus the sirius xm travel link traffic is awesome too.
Cheers, Mark
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