It was just announced that 2015 Jeeps with Uconnect 8 equipment with navigation will receive a complimentary five-year subscription to SiriusXM Traffic and SiriusXM Travel Link. 2014s purchased after July 1st will also qualify for the offer.
I'm sure that'll make people who bought a 2014 before July 1st "happy".
Hell, I'd just be happy if Sirius took me off their piss poor XM satellites and put me back on the Sirius satellites so I'd quit getting the "XM service loading... please wait" bullschmidt everytime I use the radio.
So let me get this straight. Chrysler is teaching its customers to hold off buying in case something will get thrown in for free at a later date? Sounds like a poor business plan to me.
I'm really pissed at Sirius right now. From what I've been reading, they're moving customers over to their poorer coverage XM satellites right around the time your free trial period expires.
This "XM service loading... please wait" crap started about 2 weeks prior to my free subscription ending. Never had that happen once prior to that. Now it happens at least twice on every daily commute to-from work.
I've also noticed somewhat of a drop in sound quality after that started happening.
I have an XM radio in my other vehicle and I'm not getting this.
Retarded...simply retarded. Way to alienate your customers Chrysler.
With all the problems many have had with their early build 2014 Grand Cherokees, Chrysler should extend this free 5 years of SiriusXM Traffic and Travel Link to ALL 2014 GC owners with the 8.4AN radio.
One of the moderators from another Cherokee forum said his dealer told him that all 2014 Grand Cherokees will be grandfathered in to this due to all the radio problems. Sounds like mere speculation to me, but would be nice if Chrysler did this. Here's a link to the post, but I wouldn't get your hopes up: Five-Year Subscription to SiriusXM Traffic and Travel Link - 2014 Jeep Cherokee Forums
One of the moderators from another Cherokee forum said his dealer told him that all 2014 Grand Cherokees will be grandfathered in to this due to all the radio problems. Sounds like mere speculation to me, but would be nice if Chrysler did this. Here's a link to the post, but I wouldn't get your hopes up: Five-Year Subscription to SiriusXM Traffic and Travel Link - 2014 Jeep Cherokee Forums
I can't help but wonder if this is an attempt to start motivating/maintaining a revenue stream. With Apple/Google moving into the auto space what is the long-term value of Travelink (or in-dash NAV -- (e.g.; garmin maps, etc.). UConnect has the same risk... why pay for a service that Apple/Google will provide for mostly free (at face value anyway). This 'free' stuff may help maintain sat radio subscriptions in favor of Pandora, iTunes Radio, etc.
Be curious to see which one of the big-guys (Apple, Google, Microsoft) tries to buy Sirius for satellite distribution (or just decides to launch their own satellites).
While I would have liked to have gotten the 5 years, you can't really blame Chrysler......it's not like they shouldn't be able to come out with things on newer models, LOL, c'mon people, every model year is going to have an enhancement over the next.
I would decline the offer. I pretty much never use Travel Link it's too clumsy and slow and the Sirius Traffic completely screwed up my navigation taking me down every little side street for the smallest amount of traffic. Now that I turned it off my GPS works great.
If Chrysler really wants to enhance their customers UConnect experience just, as an example, allow all the functions the Garmin nav systems are capable of, not the scaled back systems we are given, and pay dearly for.
I have noticed I have traffic again even though it expired. I can't say it's much use though. I have been at a dead stop many times with the traffic showing green on the Nav. Seems too slow to react to the rush hour surge.
My altitude will be here monday.However it does have the upgraded premium 9 speaker sound. But not Nav, I plan to have it flashed for nav prior to pick up.
I was under the impression that this thread was about the 8.4AN based on the thread title... as you wouldn't be getting a free 5 year subscription to any of this on a 8.4A unit.
If you're specifically talking about adding any of this to a 8.4A then I have no reason to argue against what you stated.