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In terms of reception, it's just "ok". My attennae is on the roof.on the back of the car. Easy enough to install.depending on where your antennae is located.and assuming you're mechanically competent. I don't have the cleanest reception (some static.and LA seems to have a radio station on just about every frequency), but it is better than other FM modulators I've used. This means to have a reasonably clean installation, I had to raise the weather stripping around the rear glass and tape (yuck) the wire along the top edge of the glass next to the roof. Running the wire under the rear seat to through the carpet was the easy part. It is definitely not as clear as the factory-installed XM radio on my wife's car (she won't even listen to it when she drives my car) and it is particularly frustrating when I lose my signal and start hearing someone else's (wonder which FM modulator they have). I'm ready to try something else.
I bought this for my second car and already had one installed on my primary car that came with the XM reciever that I had bought. This seemed equal in quality to the one that I already had and works fine. Previous experience without this was constantly changing frequencies due to local station interference as I traveled. With this, I almost never have to change frequencies.
XMserius did not mention that the XpressR radio needs additional hardware to get the Car Kit to work, if you don't have a cassette player. I ordered the sure connect, connected it per the instructions and now my radio tells me that no antenna is connected. If I connect the XM radio antenna directly into the radio, it does recognize the antenna, but it will not recognize the antenna when connected thru the Sureconnect.
We were having a terrible problem listening to XM radio in the car because of station interference. I bought this product after consulting with customer service at XM. This product is wonderful. After installing, which was a breeze, we no longer have any problem listening to the XM stations in the car.
While this product does somewhat do what it is designed for it is in no way even close to the same quality signal the older radios put out with their built in FM transmitters. Either hard wire or use a cassette adapter
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