I've become a Bluetooth believer.
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I had my first BT setup in my (new-departed) 2006 Infiniti M45, and with my new Cingular RAZR, it basically sucked. Okay, not sucked real, real bad, but it was sorta basic communication ... the sound quality at the caller's end was hollow and a little weak. On the car end, the sound was okay, except it was too bassy and had a little echo. It just wasn't natural-sounding at all.
I was pretty much writing off BT as half-baked.
Then I got my Lexus IS350, and I was amazed at the sound quality on both ends. So were the people I called, who said they couldn't even tell I was on hands-free. Yippee!
So a couple of weeks later I got my TL, and I'm happy to report its BT is as good as the Lexus's. Yeee-HA!
So I'm a BT convert for sure. It is soooo nice to be able to say "Call home" or "Call Bill" or whatever, and then talk to people in a normal tone of voice and be totally understood. No earpieces, no holding a handset. Sweet. And the integration with the Nav is golden.
You can have your satellite radio - just don't take away my Bluetooth!
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I was pretty much writing off BT as half-baked.
Then I got my Lexus IS350, and I was amazed at the sound quality on both ends. So were the people I called, who said they couldn't even tell I was on hands-free. Yippee!
So a couple of weeks later I got my TL, and I'm happy to report its BT is as good as the Lexus's. Yeee-HA!
So I'm a BT convert for sure. It is soooo nice to be able to say "Call home" or "Call Bill" or whatever, and then talk to people in a normal tone of voice and be totally understood. No earpieces, no holding a handset. Sweet. And the integration with the Nav is golden.
You can have your satellite radio - just don't take away my Bluetooth!
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Originally Posted by brianp6621
And why did you get rid of the M45?
The M45 has a longish story behind it, but I'll sum it up like this: it had a "flaw" of sorts, in the form of a rough torque converter (TC) lockup. When I'd let off the gas the TC would unlock, then when I re-applied throttle, the TC would "slam" back into lockup. It felt kinda like when you get tapped in the rear bumper by someone at a stoplight. Or like bad U-joints. And when using cruise control on the highway, it would give the car a series of bumps like that every time I started down an incline ... like one every 3 seconds or so. VERY annoying in a $50k+ car.
After 15 months of this, and many complaints to the dealer and to Infiniti, they finally told me it's just the way they're built. That was unacceptable to me, so I worked an early termination of my lease and now they own it again.
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Originally Posted by Mike_TX
LOL. Actually, I'm retired. I drive 30,000 miles a year, so I spread it over 2 cars to keep from getting too many miles on one car.
The M45 has a longish story behind it, but I'll sum it up like this: it had a "flaw" of sorts, in the form of a rough torque converter (TC) lockup. When I'd let off the gas the TC would unlock, then when I re-applied throttle, the TC would "slam" back into lockup. It felt kinda like when you get tapped in the rear bumper by someone at a stoplight. Or like bad U-joints. And when using cruise control on the highway, it would give the car a series of bumps like that every time I started down an incline ... like one every 3 seconds or so. VERY annoying in a $50k+ car.
After 15 months of this, and many complaints to the dealer and to Infiniti, they finally told me it's just the way they're built. That was unacceptable to me, so I worked an early termination of my lease and now they own it again.
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The M45 has a longish story behind it, but I'll sum it up like this: it had a "flaw" of sorts, in the form of a rough torque converter (TC) lockup. When I'd let off the gas the TC would unlock, then when I re-applied throttle, the TC would "slam" back into lockup. It felt kinda like when you get tapped in the rear bumper by someone at a stoplight. Or like bad U-joints. And when using cruise control on the highway, it would give the car a series of bumps like that every time I started down an incline ... like one every 3 seconds or so. VERY annoying in a $50k+ car.
After 15 months of this, and many complaints to the dealer and to Infiniti, they finally told me it's just the way they're built. That was unacceptable to me, so I worked an early termination of my lease and now they own it again.
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my sister has a 350 waiting for pick-up at the dealership, it's actually not that small. I'd say only marginally smaller than my TL. But that thing can really go
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Originally Posted by realfresh
my sister has a 350 waiting for pick-up at the dealership, it's actually not that small. I'd say only marginally smaller than my TL. But that thing can really go
Oh, and on the subject of Bluetooth: the HFL on my TL rocks!
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Originally Posted by jdeec
I'm a partial believer of Bluetooth, only because my phone(Samsung A900) isn't fully compatible with HandsFreeLink
The phantom ringing gets annoying fast.
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