Free Sirius/XM in cars

[95DRGT]

Speaking of free Sirius, I know a guy who bought a refurbished O.E. tuner off of ebay for fifty bucks, installed it and it worked right off the bat with no call to Sirius to have it activated or an account set up. It's still going almost two years later. Maybe the unit originally had a lifetime activation on it or something.

That's probably the case- I believe they are tied to the unit not the car.

[4king]

Always sounded terrible to me, it's in the father in laws car and he loves it. I can hear the compression but the wife doesn't hear it

[scootro]

its free on holiday weekends but your not getting every channel just a taste

[helosailor]

I seriously disliked the sound quality, so I did not continue on to the paid full service. I do pay the $4/mo for the live traffic though.

[SS Junk]

So we recently discovered that the Sirius/XM is working in both our cars and come to find out it's some free promotions they're running. The problem I have with it is that the music sounds really digitized like its running low bit rate. Is that what it normally sounds like or is it just because it's free. If the sound gets better we may consider joining, mostly because 90s on 9 rocks my wife's tits off

The free-to-air channels runs at a significantly lower bit rate than the sub channels.