Jackseric

My friend just sold his '10 Ram for '14 Silverado. He took one ride in mine and traded his in a week later. He said it was "nickle and dime-ing" him to death. Just in the last year alone he's replaced brakes/rotors, ball joints, wheel bearings, and the dash was cracked in about 4 places (never wrecked) and the thing sounded like a coffee can full of nuts and bolts. Add all that on top of what went wrong when the dealership was still fixing stuff under warranty... and he says he'll never own another Dodge. The ball joints and wheel bearings were done twice, once under warranty and once on his dime.

I can tell you that any adjustment with the front end will require an alignment. Even just minor ones! I've got a story to back it up: I had a 1998 Durango. After a few years, I got new tires (Bridgestone Dueler Revos, greatest tires I've ever owned!) Because the new tires looked much more aggressive than the factory tires, I realized I wanted to get rid of the factory rake, too. I climbed under and cranked the torsion bars just enough to raise the front end an inch. That's all I needed to level front to rear... just a measly 1" and it was perfect. I couldn't tell a single change when driving. I thought everything was great until around 3 months later I notice that my new tires were getting louder... and a month after that, the whole damn truck vibrated while driving anything faster than about 35mph. I took my Durango back to the tire shop, and they informed me that the fronts were jacked up due to an alignment issue. I never saw it until they showed me, but the tires looked like a saw blade from the side. I leveled up with the service manager about what I'd done, and asked for help. He offered to order me 2 new tires under warranty if I'd agree to pay for an alignment. I thanked him and took him up on the offer, of course. Never had another issue with those tires again... smooth and quiet till the end and the most grip I've ever experienced in a tire. I plan to run those on my Denali when the factory tires wear out. Bridgestone has a pretty informative page about alignments and how important they are. I am now a firm believer! :-)

I don't believe the front 3 are for power only. When I plug my Samsung Galaxy phone into one of them, it gives me the option to play music I have saved on my phone. OP, have you made sure your USB/thumb drive is formatted in FAT not NTFS? How many levels deep are the folders in your organization system? I think I remember reading somewhere there being a limit to how deep the system will read. (folders within folders) I think your plan to organize them may be unnecessary as the system does it's own cataloging. When I browse mine, it gives me a list of the genres, artists, albums, etc that I have available.