2008 Town & Country

if i was a cop i would be well versed in my states laws on vehicle
modifications. as long as folks were nice i would be nice. but the minute
they started getting rude and beligerent i would start looking for mods just
to teach them some manners. in georgia the law specifically states that a
truck cannot be lifted any more than 2" over stock. a cop with an attitude
could park 25% of the trucks our hillbilly town on a whim.
michael

 

I forgot all about Alldata, the FSM is $395.00 which I think is just a
little over priced!

 

Yep, I broke a class three hitch last year. A guy pulled up along side of me
to say it didn't look right (on the freeway) I touched the brake and boom
the trailer hit me. Sucks when the safety changs are hooked to the hitch and
the hitch brakes free!

 

Ouch!! That had to suck.

I guess the biggest reason I have a negative attitude towards this is due to
the can-bus system on the van. All modules are on the bus and info flows
freely. I'm just supposing here and have no way to know if this is correct
so here goes.....You power up the camera when it's not supposed to have
power. It puts this info on the bus. Other modules see this info when
nothing is supposed to be there and gets confused (for lack of better word)
and do something strange. Take the radio for instance, I don't know if the
back-up picture will be displayed when it gets the signal or not. The radio
my have to have a bus message from the pcm that the van is in reverse before
it'll show the screen. I know, this is all kinda far-fetched but I run into
this kind of stuff on occasion when people try to modify the electronics on
the newer vehicles to get them to work the way they want them to instead of
the way they were designed.

Denny (Don't get me started on lock-up converters or remote starts..)

 

Luckly I was on concrete so the tung didn't dig in and polevault. Everything
went down and under the bumper and I rode it to a stop. Makes me worry about
the safety chain setup as they were still connect to the hitch that broke
freefrom the uprites.

Actually the camera talks directly to the radio then the radio talks with
the bus. The module from www.coastaletech.com goes between the bus and
radio. It works great and I now have an 1 additional audio/video input to
the radio (I plan an HD receiver in the near future) one more video input I
guess for another camera if I wanted and a video output should I want to
drive another screen. Also I get a connection that allows for an aftermarket
blue tooth interface. I doubt I'll really use all the features but the
technology is cool.

 

Didn't someone mention isolating the power feed with a diode? ;-)

 

As I interpret the above, there is NO prohibition about modifying a
vehicle. All the above states is that the original safety equipment,
including lights etc must be in good operating condition. You are
reading too much into it.

Doug

 

Yes - but Denny apparently was assuming that the bus communicated
directly with the camera. If that were true (which, from what others
are saying, is not), it would be hard to fool the bus into not knowing
whether the camera was powered up or not.

Bill Putney
(To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
address with the letter 'x')

 

Doug,
i snipped a lot of the other stuff. the key to this code is the sentence
i left this time. the "improperly equipped" and "violations of chapter"
statements refer you back to the preponderence of codes covering
modifications to vehicles. this chapter includes lifts, fog lights, and all
kinds of modifictions. i chose not to post the entire chapter, you can
google it if you want. if you dig down into all the applicable codes in
georgia, many common modifications are illegal.
michael