SIR-PNR2 vs SC-C1 Reliability.......

[medmondson]

Good Morning,

 

I am about 2 weeks into owning a D3. For the most part I really do love it, however in this short span of time I've already gone through 2 SIR-PNR2 sirius receivers.

 

Do I try yet another or cut my losses and move on to the newer, slightly more expensive SC-C1 (plus Pioneer interface)?

 

Reading around the forum there seems to be ALOT of problems with the SIR-PNR2 and few reported on the SC-C1, but that could possibly just be because of far fewer SC-C1 units out there at this point.

 

Any thoughts?

[whtcrxghst]

I've never had a single one of either go bad. Installed approx. 100 PNR2s and about 5 of the new ones

[superjet]

Yup, that piece is about the most reliable direct sat tuner there is. You have some other issue going on if it is your third one.

[jaedee]

Where are you mounting your sat receiver? Maybe it's in a location which does not allow for decent cooling???? Just taking a shot in the dark, but like the guy above said, sounds like you have another issue besides the module.

[stealthg]

since we're talking about recievers, who's idea was it to make separate units for tuner and bus interface? I have an older alpine with an sir-alp1 interface and will be switching to the new F series. It just seems silly to hide two boxes instead of one.

[whtcrxghst]

I think it was Terks idea, since they did if for XM and DEI just followed suit with Sirius. Lets the dealers carry a bunch of one tuner for all brands, and then a few of each connectors for each specific brand