UPDATE:
Had to do some errands today and put about 100 miles on. Also had the GPS activated at the dealer this morning so got to play with that.
I really am liking how the vehicle drives more and more as I use it. Just so smooth and quiet. The engine is very responsive. Trans is a little choppy 1-2 but 2-3 is starting to smooth out. The rest of the time it is fine.
I experimented with the voice commands and like that feature a lot. Very easy to activate it, uses common sense on how you ask it to do things, and it understands me well( don't have to repeat myself ). I need to start getting into the UConnect Access and Sirius features and see what is available there now. Allows for apps through your phone, add traffic & weather to the GPS, and so on. Lots of goodies once I activate the 2 services.
Now about the GPS. 1st problem with the vehicle.
I am NOT happy with one thing and it WILL be rectified or Chrysler owes me $600! It loses GPS signal when you shut down( normal when power is off ) but it takes like 15-20 minutes to get it back once you start back up. When it does this it has a mind of it's own as to where you really are. Just takes WAY TOO LONG to get a signal and figure out where you are. At least initially. Maybe it will be better now that it has been activated and run for a while?
After having it turned on at the dealer this morning I used it to head to my house for the maiden run. After telling it I was in NH and not in Texas I entered the address for home and told it to go there. The route came up properly so I figured everything was ok. I decided to go the other way just to see how it handled changes/recalculations. Well, it didn't. As I went to the right it kept me going left on the screen??? I went a ways figuring it would catch up but it didn't. It had me on one side of town by the Hospital when I was on the complete opposite side of town by the parkway. Shut the car down and turned it back on to see if power off would help? 10-15 minutes later it finally caught up and it worked fine going home from there.
So, I thought it was fixed and when I left my house later to do errands I just brought up the map screen to see if it had me where I was? NOPE! It had me on a street in a totally different town? WTH man??? I left the map screen up and just started to drive. I was going due East and the map had me going due West???
At one point it had me on a street I lived on when I was a kid in a town about 15 miles from where I really was. Let me tell you the air turned BLUE around me. After 15-20 minutes it all of a sudden flashed and then was where I actually was. I set the route then and it worked awesome going to where I was headed.
I finally figured out what was causing it( lost signal )by accident really. While going through the various menu screens after it had acquired signal and was working I came across one of the screens showing where I was and that time the signal bars looked different. What I had seen before and thought as full strength was actually no signal. So I know why it was happening now I just need to see if it continues. If so I am going to raise holy heck. It shouldn't take that long to get the GPS signal. Should only take a few seconds. BY the time the nav loads and the radio is operational after start up you should be good to go. Having to wait 15+ minutes before being able to use the Nav while it gets a signal will not fly with me. Hopefully, as said, it will be ok now?
With that said it works really well when it does have a signal. It calculates and recalculates quick, takes reasonable routes to locations, the female voice it uses is not overly annoying, and I really like that it lets me have the upcoming turn show in the instrument cluster EVIC display. It is right between the Speedo and Tach so you just glance down and don't have to look off to the side. I didn't think this feature would be there on the base EVIC but it is so that is great. I wish it used an IGO GPS system instead of Garmin but it does do ok when working.
Other than this lost signal issue so far so good.