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116 messages, Last post on Jul 16, 2009 at 7:19 AM
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Replying to: flippant (Jul 10, 2007 4:19 pm) The Sirius sounds great!
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Replying to: bobbo55 (Jan 11, 2007 5:10 pm) satellite radio applications. I had the XM Roady that I used in my 2002 Maxima. It was played through the cassette player, and I never had a problem such as this. The only glitch I would get occasionally with the Roady was the "loading" function would show up and was sometimes slow to come back to the song title and the sound. I wish I knew the answer to this. |
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Replying to: tliebman (Jun 01, 2007 2:02 pm) Did you ever get this resolved to your satisfaction? AtomicDog in Iowa
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Replying to: atomicdog1 (Nov 21, 2007 12:45 am) The volume issue is still the same for XM or my ipod. For example, if I listen to the radio or CD at volume 20, I need to turn up XM to around 30.
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Replying to: tliebman (Dec 15, 2007 1:24 pm) |
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Replying to: johnymack (Aug 31, 2007 3:41 am)
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Replying to: lvarche (Mar 05, 2008 10:28 am) The installment was very easy. Jm_proe  yahoo.com
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Replying to: johnymack (Aug 31, 2007 3:41 am) |
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| I am interested in installing satellite in my ES 350. It will definitely be a do it yourself job. It seems the Lexus part is easier to install, only because of the precise instructions. The Lexus unit seems to have volume level issues. The VAIS unit requires access to the back of the radio. Does anybody know an easy wasy to remove the panel to the left of the glove box to access the back of the radio? Which unit type is recommended? | |
| Suffice it to say that when I went to a lexus dealer to get a loaded 2009 ES350 at around $41375 and found out it didn't include satellite radio and they were going to charge me $899 added to the total msrp to bring the vehicle in and have them add something to the XM receiver and activate it that I was totally turned off and walked out of the dealership. For a car that costs over $40k not to come with sat radio in the price is totally outrageous and unacceptable; almost every other luxury automaker like Acura, Infiniti, Mercedes, and BMW, if your getting a car with bluetooth and navigation you get satellite radio with it. I mean my God, even the toyota camry when you get the DVD navigation system you automatically get satellite radio and that car costs around $30-32k. I even told that to the Lexus salesman and as usual he just sat there and had nothing to say. I was so shocked what the lexus dealer was going to do because I have a $34k Acura TL that came with satellite radio. Lexus is really out of the ballpark here on the ES and to make it even worse they were going to add a ridiculous amount to the msrp so in the end of the lease I would be paying for the sat radio 5-6 times what it even was worth. It shouldn't cost more than 200-300 dollars to do what they want for $899 and it should be something I could bring into the dealer after the fact and just pay the service department and not hose me for more money a month by adding it to the total msrp in attempt to jack the price of the car up; Lexus better get their act together because the other luxury automakers don't work this way and it totally turned me off and I really wanted the ES because it is a really nice looking and really well made vehicle - thats just my two sense | |
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