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Just picked up an absolutely pristine 2023 GTI 40th Anniversary last weekend and am really enjoying t he car.
It may be that I have more to learn, but the phone driven connection (via cable) to Android Auto seems to only provide an extremely rudimentary interface to Sirius/XM. All I see is a small window (NAV takes up the rest of the screen) showing the artist and name of the channel. There is also two buttons to go one station up or down. This is extremely limiting, as, depending on the time of day, there easily half a dozen channels that I listen to. I can hardly drive along pressing one of those buttons up to twenty or thirty times to get somewhere. Much less also visually watch as each channel changes.

Is that literally all there is to work with? My state also enacted a law, which is enforced often, that you cannot have your phone in your hand at any point while driving your car. This even applies at stop lights.

Do I have any better options to use Sirius/XM in the car? This is a definite problem.

In addition, I sometimes have to restart the car to get nav and siruus/xm to re-synch.

Any recommendations for more effectively using this fiddly interface?

Scanned my car today with OBDEleven and got this fault B116229.

Looking on Google seems like a common issue and theres there a repair kit you can buy to fix it, without having to replace whole selector.

Just wondered if anyone has ever done it?

And yes only under load does it whistle, not on ramps

Go ceramic rather than wax. Better and much longer lasting. I used Gtechniq wheel armour and very happy. The wheels just jet wash clean (with some Bilt Hamber Auto Wheel first).

was thinking both tbh.  far as i know, you can apply wax over ceramic for greater protection and re-apply in intervals every 2-3 months until the car needs ceramic coating again.  Would think that wax over ceramic would add extra layer of protection     

Hi all, dipped headlight blew. What’s a good replacement that will upgrade the original poor lights?

Hi there dipped and main are the same bulb. It’s just a shutter that goes up and down to shield a portion of the light. The xenon replacement is just a D3S (replace both). The painful bit is having to remove the headlight to fit them. You can go down the road up upgrading to LED’s which you can find more info on in here by using the search function. Good luck.