2010 Dodge Ram 1500 Regular Cab Owner Manual - Page 282

280 UNDERSTANDING YOUR INSTRUMENT PANEL oversized, or have protection encoding. Try a known NOTE: During snowplow usage on vehicles equipped with outside temperature display, the display may show good disc before considering disc player service. higher temperatures than the outside ambient temperaRADIO OPERATION AND CELLULAR PHONES ture. The higher displayed temperature is due to blocked Under certain conditions, the operation of a cellular or reduced airflow to the underhood ambient temperaphone in your vehicle can cause erratic or noisy perfor- ture sensor caused by the snowplow. In addition, on mance from your radio. This condition may be lessened vehicles equipped with Automatic Temperature Control or eliminated by relocating the cellular phone antenna. (ATC), it is suggested that the interior cabin temperature This condition is not harmful to the radio. If your radio be manually controlled should the system not perform as performance does not satisfactorily "clear" by the repo- desired while in automatic mode. Both the outside temsitioning of the antenna, it is recommended that the radio perature display and ATC operation will return to norvolume be turned down or off during cellular phone mal when the snowplow is removed. operation. Manual Heating and Air Conditioning System CLIMATE CONTROLS The controls for the manual heating and air conditioning The Climate Control System allows you to regulate the system in this vehicle consist of a series of outer rotary temperature, amount, and direction of air circulating dials and inner push knobs. These comfort controls can throughout the vehicle. The controls are located on the be set to obtain desired interior conditions. instrument panel below the radio.