I was reading the manual last night about the Shaker500, and it mentioned the RDS capabilities the Shakers have. I just went out and enabled it and did a "find" for Rock. Man what a cool feature! If you leave it enabled, it doesn't interfere with anything, but it will tell you the name of the station (sometimes just the call letters, sometimes more), and sometimes the song that's playing and the artist! Go check it out Unless this is a "welcome to last week"

 

Dang, I guess I should read my darn manual. Didn't know it had a feature like that.

 

I guess I need to read mine too. I bet I only know 1/2 of the features of the car...

 

very cool....

 

Yup, I had that in a previous car. I did not know this one had it too until looking for something in the manual. I stumbled on it and like it.

 

I just enabled mine yesterday as well!..very cool feature

 

Wow, new tricks everyday.....

 

You know.. I saw this ina friends' F-150 and was wondering if mine had that too. Guess I should read the manual also.

 

Thanks, MTAS. That's really cool. I would have never known that was there.

The Autoset and the Search for Type would be great on out of area trips. Around here, anywhere out of the center of the state, using the seak button only brings up country and folk stations. Being able to just search for rock stations would make things a lot better.

 

My Lincoln LS had that feature and it can be set at several diff things like radio station, type, etc. I've noticed that in the past 18mos there are many more stations that are using RDS and some even have their call letters, and the artist and the song title...pretty cool and only going to get better! Don't forget to check out the feature that allows you to position the sound to the driver's seat, rear or al; seats - that's a pretty cool feature too.

 

Thank you.
That's very cool, and I would have never thought of it.

One of our sad radio stations here even displays the song title...

 

Ok, that is just sad! I found that feature on my test drive back during Thanks Giving!

 

Thanks for the heads up! Guess there should be another saying around here, "read the manual noobe". HA! Will try mine tomorrow.

 

Like the old saying goes, "RTFM"

 

musta' gleened over that section.

Jut ran out and tried it.
the only station I could find was "religus" my car has a typo.

and that was on the same station That I have to use my satelite on.

 

Hey check out this website : http://www.classicalarchives.com/prs/#na
Download the freeware amd it'll tell what stations are RDS enabled in your area.

 

Thanks for posting. I was wondering why my wife's PT cruiser had that function and mine did not. It does now!

 

KOOL! I just tried it out and guess what . . . . it works Thanks for the info and I promise to read the manual.

The Boss Hog

 

I finally took a look through the manual as well... odd that you have to hold down the MENU button for the RDS settings. Seems like it would have made more sense for RDS to just be one of the choices as you keep pressing menu... oh well.

In other news, I also found out you can lower the windows using the keyless entery remote... funny, I guess this "reading" thing actually does come in handy.

 

you forgot to mention the window-up feature with the driver's door key.