I've been playing with Voice Recognition on the radio. One feature is intermittent.
Sometime I can say "XM Lithium" and when it's working, the radio will tune to that station. Other times it will tune to a random station, or display "Station Unavailable."
When it works, it always works during that driving session (meaning until I turn off the engine and then restart it again)...it never fails as I'm driving.
When it doesn't work, it never works during that driving session (meaning until I turn off the engine and then restart it again)...it never magically starts to work as I'm driving...and I do test it.
Voice Recognition always works when I say the station number (XM 34). This never fails. I keep a card with station numbers written on it because of this.
I have had it work when I'm driving to an event. An hour later I get in and it doesn't work. I stop off at a store, get in and it doesn't work. I go get gas, start it back up, and then it works.
I ran errands yesterday. It worked when I started it up and the next 2 times I restarted it. The third time it did not work.
I always let the system fully load before trying it. I get a good ways down the road before trying VR.
I'm waiting until there are other issues before I take it to the dealer, but there's nothing they can do. It sounds like the system fails to load properly sometimes. The other day, XM completely failed to load. That's only happened once. This is during 3 weeks of ownership.
The dealer can't reload the infotainment program, can they?