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Sep 15, 2013 | 06:28 PM

#81

Moe55

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From: Northford, CT

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Originally Posted by Boltsfaninmo

While riding today I noticed the Satellite is only playing the preview channel and my presets are now gone that I had saved. I've only had the bike 1 week. I thought the free XM was for a couple of months?

I thought the same thing it is only good for a week. Go into subscription if it says unsubscribed you have to call to get it activated phone # and radio # will be on the screen.

Sep 15, 2013 | 07:39 PM

#82

bill1nat

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From: North East Ohio

I am right with you. I have cracking and popping all the time.

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Originally Posted by SoZoomMe

Am I the only one that is receiving crappy FM reception on the 6.5 system? I took it to the dealer today. After checking the software version, which I already updated, they said they were going to order me a new head unit. They also said mine was the third they were having to replace.

Sep 15, 2013 | 09:02 PM

#83

Boltsfaninmo

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From: O'Fallon, MO

I was getting the popping on FM when I first picked up the bike. It seems to have gotten much better though. I can't believe a dealer would say it is distortion. DUH!
I had an issue yesterday streaming Bluetooth from iphone. It was working great then all of a sudden wouldn't play. These 6.5 radios seem to be extremely buggy.

Sep 16, 2013 | 06:26 AM

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bubba455

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Yabadabado

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Sep 16, 2013 | 08:05 AM

#85

iwillfixthem4u

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From: SO Cal

The 6.5 audio system was little twitchy, several times it froze up and required a complete cycle of the ignition to unfreeze it. seemed to be related to advancing songs with left controls The sound was great and the controls worked well. I did not care for the relocation of the CB Switch to the a right side, I have big hands and found it hard to reach. I also found that the squelch was inadvertently changed if care was not given to push the Push to Talk button straight down. also had nav turn on by itself

Sep 16, 2013 | 04:02 PM

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dh2683

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From: North East Ohio

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Originally Posted by bubba455

Tomorrow afternoon I am taking my Limited to the Harman office/shop so they can investigate the popping noise, poor radio search function, and reason why my GPS does not want to talk to me. I am certain they will figure it out quickly. Will give feedback once I am fixed.

If you go into audio setup there are volume settings for every seperate function the radio performs. Mine did the same thing. When the gps was giving me a direction the music would stop and there would be dead air. The volume was turned all the way down for the gps.