Satelite Radio

Mine was explained by the dealer as a 90 day free trial. There was a brochure in the glove box. As I recall, it may also be mentioned on the window sticker.

 

It's a 90 day free trial (including XM life traffic), and you'll be receiving info in the mail from XM.

 

You can subscribe to the Best of Sirius and/or XM NAVTraffic during the 90 day trial, but you can't get multi-year discount pricing on the service until the 90 day trial expires. Been there, done that.

 

Re: Satelite Radio Clipping Msg Text

I've noticed that the message text on my Satellite receiver seems to clip at 16 characters. Is this normal? My sister has an aftermarket satelite receiver which doesn't appear to do that.

(RDS messages on FM radio seem to be OK)

 

Re: Satelite Radio Clipping Msg Text

Normal.

 

XM subscription extended for current subscribers

As a multi-year subscriber, when I called XM to transfer my subscription, I was told that it would be extended by 3 extra months due to the 90-day Toyota subscription that was built into the Prius.

 

Re: XM subscription extended for current subscribers

That's what I was hoping to do. I think I got a relative newbie customer care agent, and adding 3 months of Best of Sirius and XM NAVTraffic to the 3 month trial was the best she could do.

 

My '10 V has XM but all I get is 3 demo stations. Am I missing something?

Called XM to add the car to my existing XM subscription. They wanted $8.99 a month and a $15 activation fee. That seemed pretty steep to me so I passed, at least for now.

 

They recently raised the rates on additional radios from $6.99 a month to $8.99. I think you can still avoid the activation fee if you do it online versus over the phone.

 

I was able in the trial to just dial in any of the hundred plus, and set the presets on the 3 SAT bands.

 

Thanks.

I tried online and I think they still wanted the activation fee. I'll try again just to be sure.

Maybe they will waive it if I speak with a supervisor, remind them I'm a long time customer, and say "pretty please."

 

I do receive the satellite radio stations during the 90 days trial but I don't receive the traffic info (or I don't know how to get it into the Nav system, it does not show as available). But my main complaint is that the reception is cutting out way too often, a real pain which discouraged me to subscribe when the trial will be over. I am in Vancouver BC and am wondering if it is a local thing or an antenna/reception problem with the Prius?

 

Common problem and discussed at length in this forum.
i am calling toyota to complain. no help from dealership on this yet, so over their heads i go.