The cold air intake and exhaust will not void the warranty. Some dealers are bad and will try to say they do. They would have to prove that those aftermarket items caused the alternator to short out.

I just had my alternator go on me yesterday. Had it towed to closest dealer and they replaced it no problem. I have a cold air intake and custom exhaust on a 2014.

 

The cold air intake and exhaust will not void the warranty. Some dealers are bad and will try to say they do. They would have to prove that those aftermarket items caused the alternator to short out.

I just had my alternator go on me yesterday. Had it towed to closest dealer and they replaced it no problem. I have a cold air intake and custom exhaust on a 2014.

I just called three different dealerships one of them said that it'll completely void the warranty which is full of crap and I called another one and he told me that if the aftermarket parts doesn't effect it then I'll be fine but I also got rear ended pretty badly like 3 months ago and he said that could be the problem so yeah I really don't know what to do :/

 

Take to Dealer ASAP..
and no way the warranty is voided.. If they say it is,, have them call Dodge directly with you there..

 

Take to Dealer ASAP..
and no way the warranty is voided.. If they say it is,, have them call Dodge directly with you there..

Yeah haha idk I highly doubt my aftermarket work had anything to do with this because I've had them for 4+ months now and this problem just now started occurring. I also had him look up if my veichle had any recalls and apparently there was none :4-dontknow: so yeah I may just take it and hope for the best and at least remove my intake because that only takes 5 minutes to do and it'll limit the stuff they can say lol

Edit:I also saw somewhere online that some guy had a dart and his uconnect kept freezing and restarting itself and he updated it and apparently according to him it fixed. I know this isn't the same problem as mine and it could very well be my alternator but I did search up if I had updates and I have two of them and I was thinking of giving them a shot and seeing if it'll fix my problem.

 

So I suppose no one knows what the problem is?

 

The problem is the dealership's to fix, take it in, your covered!

 

The problem is the dealership's to fix, take it in, your covered!

Yeah I suppose you guys are right. I'm gonna take it to the dealership ASAP although I did forget to mention this car is a lease. Does that change anything?

 

Yeah I suppose you guys are right. I'm gonna take it to the dealership ASAP although I did forget to mention this car is a lease. Does that change anything?

Lease or no lease, u still got the 3/36k warranty.

 

The CAI you put on the car will not void anything and as far as the exhaust goes you can change anything up to the cat. converters and it will not void the warenty. Now if you took out the cat. converters then that could void your warenty. I called and asked one time and they told me anything after the cat. converters is fair game. But that shouldn't be causing the electrical problems your describing, time to go see the dealer.

 

Take the car to the dealer and let them diagnose it under warranty. Don't be surprised if it turns out not to be the alternator. The instrument cluster is an ElectroMechanical Instrument Cluster (EMIC). The EMIC has a microprocessor that receives electronic messages from other electronic modules over the Controller Area Network (CAN) data bus. The EMIC also controls many of the cars electronic/electrical devices ... including electronic wiper and/or washer request messages to the Front Control Module (FCM) located on the Integrated Power Module (IPM).

So strange behavior by your instrument cluster and wipers is not out the realm of possibilities if the EMIC is acting up. Best to have the dealership Service Dept do their magic to diagnose/isolate the source of the problem. Plus they will have the software updates and hardware parts to fix it.

 

Take the car to the dealer and let them diagnose it under warranty. Don't be surprised if it turns out not to be the alternator. The instrument cluster is an ElectroMechanical Instrument Cluster (EMIC). The EMIC has a microprocessor that receives electronic messages from other electronic modules over the Controller Area Network (CAN) data bus. The EMIC also controls many of the cars electronic/electrical devices ... including electronic wiper and/or washer request messages to the Front Control Module (FCM) located on the Integrated Power Module (IPM).

So strange behavior by your instrument cluster and wipers is not out the realm of possibilities if the EMIC is acting up. Best to have the dealership Service Dept do their magic to diagnose/isolate the source of the problem. Plus they will have the software updates and hardware parts to fix it.

Thanks for that information. I didn't really know what the problem was so I just told the dealer that it's an alternator problem (before I read this post) I have an appointment Thursday morning I tried taking video footage of it happening and the one time I got it to happen my phone froze so I'm gonna keep trying to get some video of it just incase they do say nothing is wrong with it because sometimes it doesn't even occur at all it's completely random. So my question is how did this happen? I've only had this car for about 8 months now and there's barely any miles on it.

 

yes, take it to a dealer. we see cai on cars all the time. the problem sounds like a loss of bus communication between modules. the reason the wipers turn on with headlights is a safety measure built in if loss of communication with headlamp switch.