Tobey
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I have a base V6 convertible. It's mostly a good car, except the Sync system. What a steaming pile of poo. I go back and forth between being disgusted with how crappy it is, and amazed that the designers crammed so much suckage into such a small package.
1. Maybe it needs an update? Ooh, look; there's one available. I download it, format my USB drive exFAT as instructed, put the files on it, and go plug it in. "Device Not Supported." Try the other USB slot; same message. Format a different USB drive, try again, no go. You have got to be kidding me.
2. Like many others, about every 3 months, I have to pull the fuse so my bluetooth and voice commands will start working again. Really? The voice commands are one of the primary "features" of Sync. And you put out a design that fails, and requires disconnecting the power to fix?
3. If I'm listening to music on a USB drive or via bluetooth, and turn off the car, how come the next time I start it up, the radio is playing? But the screen says I'm playing a song from the USB or bluetooth device? And punching the "Media" button switches to another media source, not the device being displayed. Did the designers actually try to make it not work right, as a joke or something?
4. Randomly, the "911 Assist" message stays on, and won't go away until I push the menu button. And it actually takes me to the menu, so I have to punch it again to exit out.
5. I only use the USB 1 and Bluetooth. When I use the media button to switch between them, I have to go through USB 2. Why does it take multiple seconds and button pushes to bypass USB2? Yes, I know there's no device connected. There's never been a device connected there. That's why I'm trying to leave and go to Bluetooth. But I can't leave; it's like it's mocking me, daring me to install something in USB2. It's trying to be the Hotel California of inputs.
6. Now this next one's only happened a couple of times, but still, how hard is it to get THE VOLUME operating correctly? I finish listening to a podcast via bluetooth, and switch to the radio. The volume is turned up a bit due to the podcast. The radio come on, and now the volume control doesn't work. Neither the steering wheel button nor the volume knob work. The freaking volume. The volume knob has been around since the turn of the century. The 20th century. And they somehow screwed it up.
7. To rub it in that I'm stuck with the suckiest factory stereo on the road today, they designed it so I have to jump through flaming hoops of fire like a circus tiger to upgrade it.
8. Lastly, when I press the "Voice" button on the steering wheel, and tell Sync it's the biggest, stinkiest, most worthless pile of poo since the Yugo, and it needs to go fornicate with itself, it's only response is "Say a command." It doesn't even give me the satisfaction of feeling shame for its gold-level suckiness. I never thought I'd miss the AM/FM 8-track player from the '72 Lincoln I had in high school (still had the demo 8-track in the glove box with Elvis and Sinatra on it). But Sync has managed to make it happen.
(thank you for letting me get this off my chest. Tomorrow, I will try a 3rd USB drive, and see if maybe the update will knock the suckage down to bronze level, at least)
1. Maybe it needs an update? Ooh, look; there's one available. I download it, format my USB drive exFAT as instructed, put the files on it, and go plug it in. "Device Not Supported." Try the other USB slot; same message. Format a different USB drive, try again, no go. You have got to be kidding me.
2. Like many others, about every 3 months, I have to pull the fuse so my bluetooth and voice commands will start working again. Really? The voice commands are one of the primary "features" of Sync. And you put out a design that fails, and requires disconnecting the power to fix?
3. If I'm listening to music on a USB drive or via bluetooth, and turn off the car, how come the next time I start it up, the radio is playing? But the screen says I'm playing a song from the USB or bluetooth device? And punching the "Media" button switches to another media source, not the device being displayed. Did the designers actually try to make it not work right, as a joke or something?
4. Randomly, the "911 Assist" message stays on, and won't go away until I push the menu button. And it actually takes me to the menu, so I have to punch it again to exit out.
5. I only use the USB 1 and Bluetooth. When I use the media button to switch between them, I have to go through USB 2. Why does it take multiple seconds and button pushes to bypass USB2? Yes, I know there's no device connected. There's never been a device connected there. That's why I'm trying to leave and go to Bluetooth. But I can't leave; it's like it's mocking me, daring me to install something in USB2. It's trying to be the Hotel California of inputs.
6. Now this next one's only happened a couple of times, but still, how hard is it to get THE VOLUME operating correctly? I finish listening to a podcast via bluetooth, and switch to the radio. The volume is turned up a bit due to the podcast. The radio come on, and now the volume control doesn't work. Neither the steering wheel button nor the volume knob work. The freaking volume. The volume knob has been around since the turn of the century. The 20th century. And they somehow screwed it up.
7. To rub it in that I'm stuck with the suckiest factory stereo on the road today, they designed it so I have to jump through flaming hoops of fire like a circus tiger to upgrade it.
8. Lastly, when I press the "Voice" button on the steering wheel, and tell Sync it's the biggest, stinkiest, most worthless pile of poo since the Yugo, and it needs to go fornicate with itself, it's only response is "Say a command." It doesn't even give me the satisfaction of feeling shame for its gold-level suckiness. I never thought I'd miss the AM/FM 8-track player from the '72 Lincoln I had in high school (still had the demo 8-track in the glove box with Elvis and Sinatra on it). But Sync has managed to make it happen.
(thank you for letting me get this off my chest. Tomorrow, I will try a 3rd USB drive, and see if maybe the update will knock the suckage down to bronze level, at least)
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