Ummm...nothing called "Owner's Manual". I do have a "User Guide" but it only goes to Page 80. Evidently the dealer forgot to include the "Owner's Manual" with the mountain of paperwork I got. Called them and they will order one for me.

No wonder I can't find half the info I need. Thanks, toofart. I'd never have known if you hadn't posted this.

 

My guess is cost-cutting. They make one panel for every model regardless of options.

Glad you're starting to figure out your car The Challengers look like nothing else on the road.

 

Further adventures in Challenger ownership...

steak59 and toofart, you were right about the pressing the button on the instrument cluster to view the odometer. I had assumed it would just zero out my trip counters but that doesn't happen unless you hold it in. Pressing it cycles among Trip A, Trip B and the odometer.

It took a trip to the dealer, forty miles away, for me to get this through my head. While I was there I asked about the compass. Both the "User Guide" and the (forthcoming) "Owners Manual" refer to a compass and neither notes "Optional" or "If so equipped". Turns out my bare bones model had the "Compass Module" blacked out on the build instructions.

I'll talk nicely to the Customer Assistance people. Maybe I can convince them to let me have the compass.

All other issues resolved, thanks to you guys, though I'm still not sure what I'm doing with the EVIC. Been running computers since 1973 but this one has me buffaloed. I'll keep working on it.

Thanks, fellows.

Will post a pic of the flag-carry at our local dirt track last Sunday as soon as I get one. What a ball!

 

Glad to see you're slowly figuring this out. If you have other questions, fire away!

 

If I'm not mistaken creeper, those buttons you're wondering about with the CD player and Ipod on may change the source. As in going from radio to CD player to Ipod.

 

Automatic headlights is a three position switch. Far left is full automatic.Middle turns on daylight running lights and allows the use of fog lights if you have them. Far right manually turns on headlights also allows use of foglights.15 minute timer will turn them off if you forget with ignition key removed.If it is dark out any of the three will turn on headlights.You cannot run daytime fogs in the far left position but can at night.

 

Thanks to you guys (and my spiffy new 433-page owner's manual) I'm beginning to get a handle on my Challenger.

Lash, my light switch does not have an "A" (for automatic, I presume) on the far left as shown in the manual...just Off/Parking/Headlights...so I guess my lights are standard issue. S'okay. I don't miss what I never had and I'm an old broad anyway so this is fine with me.

Can't recall if I posted this or not, but the iPod problem turned out to be an operator headspace error. You can't hear the music if the volume is all the way down. Figuring out one high-tech object is bad enough. Two (I consider the iPod to be "high-tech") is nigh onto impossible.

Anyone else having trouble moving the passenger side seat forward? Mine works about half the time. Another quirk is in the trunk. Sometimes when it's open it won't close and latch. You have to push the "trunk open" button again. Assume I'm doing something wrong but haven't figured out what yet.

On the up side, she's cranking out 35 mpg without trying, so long as you don't have to stop.