My dad has an older Lex SUV with no bluetooth or anything fancy. The stock Nakamichi system died years ago and he had some cheap cd player put in. He had a major service done last week and his loaner had a satellite radio in it…he is hooked.
So here is the perfect scenario if we can do it. Just like Sergeant Schultz ‘I know nothhhhing!’ about satellite radios so looking for options.
Satellite radio an option? Happy to sacrifice his existing cd player if we need to yank that out for the sat setup.
If we can make his car bluetooth compatible for his iPhone that would be great…wondering if the sat would/could do that for him?
Only thing we don’t want to do is drop an insane amount of money…this is a car with just over 400k miles on it. Still runs great, but any day it decides to quit won’t be a surprise as it’s far and away exceeded expectations. Could this be done for 500?
What did he listen to on satelite? We are kind of in the same situation as our bike hauler, an 07 Freestyle has factory installed satellite radio while our daily commuter, a 2000 Volvo S70, has a nice factory premium sound system but no aux inputs for adding satellite. Our SiriusXM Satellite radio service costs north of $600 for a 3 year subscription for a single vehicle but it does include internet access, so my thinking is rather than adding satellite to the Volvo and increasing subscription costs, we can get an Android-based head unit and connect to our Android smartphones providing access to Pandora and similar streaming media as well as SiriusXM service via the Android App. In your father’s case, you could get an iOs compatible head unit, connect to the iPhone to listen to Pandora or save bucks with an internet-only SiriusXM subscription. Of course one consideration is that with Satellite, you pretty much have access to the service anywhere you drive whereas depending on the carrier, smartphone access would be limited by the coverage area of the service provider.
What did he listen to on satelite? We are kind of in the same situation as our bike hauler, an 07 Freestyle has factory installed satellite radio while our daily commuter, a 2000 Volvo S70, has a nice factory premium sound system but no aux inputs for adding satellite. Our SiriusXM Satellite radio service costs north of $600 for a 3 year subscription for a single vehicle but it does include internet access, so my thinking is rather than adding satellite to the Volvo and increasing subscription costs, we can get an Android-based head unit and connect to our Android smartphones providing access to Pandora and similar streaming media as well as SiriusXM service via the Android App. In your father’s case, you could get an iOs compatible head unit, connect to the iPhone to listen to Pandora or save bucks with an internet-only SiriusXM subscription. Of course one consideration is that with Satellite, you pretty much have access to the service anywhere you drive whereas depending on the carrier, smartphone access would be limited by the coverage area of the service provider.
That works, and I have done something similar on my boat. I got rid f the portable radio, and subscription, and stream Sirius from my phone at the helm to the head unit in the cabin. My car has built in Sirius so I can use that for Internet access.
It works pretty well so long as we stay where there is good data service. One consideration though is the data usage which can add up if you listen a lot. I’m on a grandfathered unlimited plan, but if your not you need to watch for overages.
One consideration though is the data usage which can add up if you listen a lot. I’m on a grandfathered unlimited plan, but if your not you need to watch for overages.
Good point but I think streaming audio is pretty compressed, so not that much data, but on the other hand, streaming video has a big data foot print. I found that out a couple months back when my wife watched a Modest Mouse concert stream on her smart phone during which time I started getting e-mail alerts from Verizon indicating we were nearing our plan’s monthly data limit in the first week of the billing cycle.