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?
