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How bad is Sirius integration vs XM?

By SouthernLCC · Jun 26, 2009in General💬 6 posts👁️ 1,549 views
Posted Jun 26, 2009 · 18:33 UTC#1

I am thinking about getting the new Z110BT and have seen a few references at how poor Sirius integration is. Can anyone elaborate? Is it that bad vs XM?

Posted Jun 27, 2009 · 20:43 UTC#2

Anybody?

Posted Jun 27, 2009 · 20:55 UTC#3

Don't know from "integration", but HERE, in the trees, Sirius was not too good. Lost signal driving trough trees.

Since I have about a 4 mile drive through trees, Sirius was aggravating. Once I got away from the trees, it was ok. I

I noticed my daughter's Honda Acord with XM, had little or not signal loss while driving through the same area.

So, when I had the AVIC F-90 installed, I chose XM, which works much better with little loss of signal.

 

Tom

Mazda, MX5

Posted Jun 27, 2009 · 21:11 UTC#4

The Sirius interface is very generic from what I recall. No channel logo's, one line of text (Artist OR song title, but not both). This is just from memory as I removed my Sirius and use XM for the better interface and NAV Traffic.

Posted Aug 03, 2009 · 00:19 UTC#5

I had put the Sirius system on my wifes Z2 and had issues but we already had a lifetime account but the Z2 was made for XM so we changed hers to XM Traffic and she loves it .i took over her other account after the run around i got from Sirius. So Having both go with XM and yes i know they are owned by the same company now but the service and product speaks for it self.

Posted Oct 16, 2009 · 14:28 UTC#6

New to the forum, just picked up a used Z1. So with sirius we can't get all the song/station info but with xm we can? I have sirius now and would like to continue with it, but if its that bad i'll switch to xm.

 

Thanks, Nate