[johnfkitchen]

Sirius has just extended their lifetime plan offer which had expired end of last month - see below from www.sirius.com:

Subscribe for the lifetime of your radio! Yes really, we're not kidding. Pay $499.99 once, forget about bills altogether, and enjoy SIRIUS for a long, long time to come. (Offer ends January 31, 2006.)

According to my dealer, Sirius will credit you the one year subscription that BMW has paid on your behalf, so you can subtract $142.45 from the above $499.99 and get a life-of-radio subscription.

If you plan on keeping the car for a long time, or just like the idea of providing some residual value for the next owner, this could be a good deal.

Apparently there is a number to call and procedure to go through, and as soon as I have these I will post them.

[Hunter399]

I activated my SIRIUS online, I do not know if I got the first year free...


How would I find this out?

[Barry626]

Originally Posted by hunter399@mac.com

I activated my SIRIUS online, I do not know if I got the first year free...


How would I find this out?

Call 800 # and extend your service.
It's true as I did mine yesterday. 7/5.
Tell Sirius that u paid $142.45 when u bought the radio.
They will deduct from $499.99 & you pay balance of $357.54.
Worth it if your keeping car good 4 years or so. Like $10.00 per month?

[GTS_330]

Will sirius radio work in other country like South East Asia??? Cuz i plan to ship my car there in the future.....

[Amil]

im guessing it should work but im prolly wrong

[res_ipsa]

Great tip, thanks guys.

[johnfkitchen]

Originally Posted by GTS_330

Will sirius radio work in other country like South East Asia??? Cuz i plan to ship my car there in the future.....

I believe it is only USA, but I also seem to recall there were some announcements about Canada being added. I would not assume that other countries are covered, and even if they are, don't assume that a license for USA would actually work elsewhere. Best idea would be to check with Sirius directly.

[jetmechG550]

It does not work in Asia or for right not anywhere outside the US. I believe they are working on Canada and Mexico. Now will they credit me since I just activated a rcvr and the lifetime contract was expired at the time I activated?

[ward]

this is a great deal, I just signed up last night when I picked up my car

[johnfkitchen]

Originally Posted by ward

this is a great deal, I just signed up last night when I picked up my car

Did the dealer help you with signing up? My dealer said it was between me and Sirius. What was the process, and how did you authenticate yourself to Sirius?

[E90Fleet]

Originally Posted by GTS_330

Will sirius radio work in other country like South East Asia??? Cuz i plan to ship my car there in the future.....

No, its 2 satelites in a polar orbit that only broadcast over the USA region

[silverado]

Originally Posted by johnfkitchen

Did the dealer help you with signing up? My dealer said it was between me and Sirius. What was the process, and how did you authenticate yourself to Sirius?

When my dealer installed Sirius, they told me I have to activate the service myself. The iDrive display had an option to call Sirius on my connected bluetooth phone to activate. It told me what my ESN number is to use in the call. I kept a record of that and told it to call them. You only need to give them the number for authentication, then they send a message to your device to activate it.

Of course you can call them the normal way if you don't have a BT phone connected. But this was just a nice piece of integration that I didn't expect

[johnfkitchen]

Originally Posted by silverado

When my dealer installed Sirius, they told me I have to activate the service myself. The iDrive display had an option to call Sirius on my connected bluetooth phone to activate. It told me what my ESN number is to use in the call. I kept a record of that and told it to call them. You only need to give them the number for authentication, then they send a message to your device to activate it.

Of course you can call them the normal way if you don't have a BT phone connected. But this was just a nice piece of integration that I didn't expect

That has got to be one of the coolest examples of integration that I have heard of yet! It never occurred to me that they would go this far!