For a couple weeks now certain satellite stations are no longer accessible, such as channel 36 Alt Nation. It just jumps right over it when scrolling, from 35 to 38. Channel 36 is still a station and accessible on other vehicles on online, any clue what might be causing this in my 2006? Any potential solutions?

 

A bunch of my stations aren't working either. SiriusXM Fly & Lithium are the 1st two that I can think of.
It's really been pissing me off these past couple weeks as well.

Maybe I'll call on my lunchtime to bitch.

 

yeah my preset stations that have been eliminated just say "updating" when selected? I figure there is a new channel line up or something?

UPDATE on the webpage it looks like the missing channels are now "online only" no more The Joint where my reggae at?

 

Try logging in to their website and sending a "Refresh My Radio" signal. That worked for me when I couldn't tune a few stations last week.

 

Good suggestion, I will try that out. Thanks!

 

I'm just here to report back that refreshing the signal worked perfectly for me and only took like 5mins. I have all 12 of my stations back, wOOt!!

 

Well, sad to say I spoke too soon.
It worked immediately during my lunch break, but when I went to drive home I lost all the same stations again

 

The refresh just worked for me too but only time will tell if it sticks.

 

well I am just gonna listen to some new stations as I cannot log in as I have been getting free XM after a trial offer about 10 years ago....................

 

So get this; I was convinced that I was never gonna get my lost XM stations ever back for the past ~4 months, I just accepted that fact. If I refreshed my XM signal I would temporarily get them all back, until the next time I shut the car off, even just for filling up for gas.

I think I may have inadvertently fixed the missing XM stations, by chasing a different problem; battery drain/"parasitic draw". First I disconnected my HFL 3 weeks ago.... nope, that didn't fix the battery draining.
Onto the next common culprit; AC relay. I pulled the AC relay three nights ago and the morning after, I had ZERO XM stations. None. So again I refreshed the signal, got my stations back for my drive to work, and low and behold, I've kept them for 2 solid days now.

In hindsight they probably are related, the radio needs some sort of memory to store all the preset stations and if the battery gets too low loses its memory. It's just weird how it's some stations, but not all.