Our 06 Accord has XM radio built into it. When we got the car in 06 it came with a free 90 day trial. I had Sirius at the house which I really liked but cut off around that time as I didn't want both. Well, after the 90 days I let the XM run out as I didn't find that I liked it. They play a lot of music I've never heard of that imo sucks. Sirius was much better.

Well, anyway I was thinking you know now that they are merging and what not or just in general maybe it's gotten better. I called to hook it up and can't say I'm impressed now either. They have 2 okay country channels, no good rap channels that I can find, and 1 okay rock channel. Basically I listen to anything but all I can find really good on XM is the 2 country channels. The thing is our local radio station has 2 good country channels anyway I can listen to for free so basically I just want a better rock and rap station. We have one that plays a little of both on regular radio. Well, XM is even worse. The XM boneyard or whatever is okay for rock but not the best as I kind of want some new rock that is actually good. Not bands I've never heard of. The rap stations I can't find anything I've everheard of much either. The City is all I can really find with anything and I've only seen a couple songs on that which were any good or that I've heard of. The other ones all seem to have junk on them like one has Leo G whoever that is on it pretty much all the time and they seem to all have a lot of dj so and so which just is pure junk.

Are there any good rock or rap stations on here? I'm starting to wish I had just left it off and more than likely it will get cut back off before the month is over. I hate I paid a $15 activation fee ontop of the service fee for this crap. Pretty much the local regular radio is just as good and in most cases better. The top hits channel has some new songs but even it's no better than regular radio.

Anyone else have it and super unhappy with XM? I'm just ranting because I'm upset I paid $15 to activate this crap. It hasn't gotten any better than it was 2 years ago if any of you are wondering.

 

I bought xm for my parents a few years ago, they didn't like it either. I think sirius is better for music and I've heard that xm has better traffic/weather. I've had sirius for3 years nowwould never switch. As for the merger , your ram will get 30mpg before that happens. There is an adapter/converter that you can hookup and turn the xm receiver into a sirius receiver. supposed to be easy, but i don't know for sure.


just an after thought but if you get the sirius in the accord the may give you a 2nd unit for your truck all you'd need to pay is subscription and thats supposed to be 1/2 price.

 

I don't want to have a box to mount somewhere in the Accord like you need to use Sirius with the stock h/u. Thats why I don't want Sirius in it. I just don't like those boxes you have to mount somewhere.

The truck is the same way. I'm not sure if my Alpine is made for XM or Sirius in it but I kind of think its for XM too. I don't want to pay for it in the truck anyway just possibly the Honda.

 

I had Sirius radio in my last car and I would never waste my money on it agian. At first it was great and it is nice to have no commercials, but after awhile it was the same songs in rotation day after day and that sucked. It was nice to have a large choice of channels to choose from, but like I said they played the same songs over and over agian from day to day. The funny part was after my subscription ran out they sent me a bill for $14.95 because they said that I did not have account upto date. After spending about a week trying to get someone to explain to me how my account wasn't upto date, they finally told me that they would take care of it and not to worry.

The customer service they offer is BS and there programming sucks in my opinion.

 

Ok it seems to have a little better music at night which for the most part does me no good as I want good music during the day when I'm in my car. However I'm sitting here listening to The City station and noticed that Lollipop came on by Lil Wayne and noticed it was edited. WTF If I'm paying $13 a month I want to hear the song the way it was supposed to be heard. I'm not paying $13 a month to hear the edited versions of songs. That just kind of ticks me off. It's annoying to sit here enjoying a song and all of a sudden have just words stop while it takes a word out.

Unless my mind does a complete 180 this thing is getting cut back off as there is just too many things I don't like about it and not $13 worth of things I do like.


They do have okay classic rock but doesn't seem like they have a good channel for modern day rock.

The City seems okay for rap other than the fact I don't want to hear edited music.

Highway 16 and America seem okay for country

and Top 20 on 20 and XM hitlist okay for new songs.

After a lot more listening I've found a few decent channels but seems like they mostly play good music at night as the times I've listened to it during the day I haven't heard any of these good songs. I want good music in the day in the car not at night. The edited songs really bother me too. No way I want to pay to here music thats edited.