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    PCM Radio questions

    After two weeks with my new car, I am doing well figuring out the PCM, but have two questions. First, I cannot seem to run the navigation system without the radio comming on. Can turn down the volume on the radio, or mute, but it is still on. Second, the car has the multifunction steering wheel, but I have not figured out how to move through stations stored in preset memories A, B or AS using the buttons on the wheel. You can get to the stations using the numerical keypad, but I would have thought you could do this on the stearing wheel. Any help would be appreciated.

    Re: PCM Radio questions

    not sure about the second one, but here's a possibility for the first.

    In the Navi main menu, press the Set button. Make sure Navi Fix is set to "off." Adjust Audio so that the boost and mute settings are inverse of eachother. In other words, if you've set boost to +7, set mute to -7. This way, any other sound sources (radio, cd) will be automatically muted when in navigation mode.

    Hope this works for you...

    Re: PCM Radio questions


    Yup, you cannot run the nav without the radio (or CD or CDC) on. The only PCM access you have when the radio is off is via the steering wheel PCM stalk. I do what fxhomie does so that I can hear the nav instructions automatically clearly when the radio is on. The "repeat" button is pretty handy, too.

    The multi-function steering wheel is clumsy at best. I pretty much only use the volume/mute. You can cycle through the PCM screens and use the right wheel/button on the MF steering to enter and scroll through menus, but you still have to take your eye off of the road to see what menu or option you are in. Which is why the MF steering wheel is useless in my opinion. If there was an easy way to change (step) radio station or audio track on the MF steering wheel (like the BMW), that would be much more useful IMO. Porsche missed the mark on the MF steering.

    I hear the telephone option works really well with the MF steering, but I don't have any firsthand experience.

    Re: PCM Radio questions

    Makes me sick to read about and also have to deal with these problems/inadequacies. They qualify the PCM as a POS for me. Rant over.

     
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