Sirius Radio Acting Up In New Es330

[vxg]

Hi all - I'm the owner of a 4 day old 2005 ES330 and have been listening to the preview Sirius programming (the car came with the Sirius unit installed). Unfortunately I hit a problem today:

The scenario - driving home this evening listening to a rock station I notice that the signal is cutting out a lot because I'm driving under a lot of trees. This may or may not be related.

All of a sudden the radio turns off - no displays of anything on the LCD. Its like something just turned the whole audio system off.

When I turn it back on I cannot select any SAT1,2,3 - only AM or FM1,2. However the last programming is still playing through the speakers. If I tune to any AM or FM station I hear both - the radio station as well as the sirius rock station coming through the speakers! There's no way I can turn off the Sirius radio programming now.

Very strange. Obviously since its just a 4 day old car I'm going to ask Lexus to fix it (I'm taking it anyway tomorrow to get the personalization done) but I figured I'd ask on this forum to see if anyone else has seen similar problems and what they did about it.

VXG.

[rwelke]

Hi all - I'm the owner of a 4 day old 2005 ES330 and have been listening to the preview Sirius programming (the car came with the Sirius unit installed).  Unfortunately I hit a problem today:

The scenario - driving home this evening listening to a rock station I notice that the signal is cutting out a lot because I'm driving under a lot of trees.  This may or may not be related.

All of a sudden the radio turns off - no displays of anything on the LCD.  Its like something just turned the whole audio system off.

When I turn it back on I cannot select any SAT1,2,3 - only AM or FM1,2.  However the last programming is still playing through the speakers.  If I tune to any AM or FM station I hear both - the radio station as well as the sirius rock station coming through the speakers!  There's no way I can turn off the Sirius radio programming now.

Very strange.  Obviously since its just a 4 day old car I'm going to ask Lexus to fix it (I'm taking it anyway tomorrow to get the personalization done) but I figured I'd ask on this forum to see if anyone else has seen similar problems and what they did about it.

VXG.

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You don't say where you're living but, in Atlanta, in a Lexus dealer installed LS430 (new as of 2-days ago), I have the same problems. Not only trees, but also storm clouds. Apparently, unlike XM, Sirius doesn't have a complimentary RF signal to deal with satellite drop outs

[vxg]

I live in Western WA state (Bellevue, Seattle area) & I just read your other post. I understand it cuting out in tunnels & under trees but what about it playing in the background when I try to listen to FM, AM or even a CD?

I took it in to the dealer today to try to diagnose the problem but they were unable to reproduce the problem. I've emailed the service manager to ask for suggestions & what I should do if I reproduce it again.

If I turn the engine off and then start up again the problem goes away so naturally making an appointment, taking the car in, turning it off, etc. is a non starter.

Very messed up.

VXG

[vxg]

Update: after several tries I finally got the problem with my sirius radio to reproduce in the presence of a Lexus service rep. So they started to investigate and found that the sirius unit was not plugged in all the way - so basically a reseat of the unit seems to make it work a lot better.

VxG