Comments about Pioneer Pioneer In-Dash Navigation AV Receiver with CD Player and Built-In Bluetooth:

If you are looking for a serious MP3 SD card car audio system, I would not recommend this.1) It is the first car audio system I have owned that takes 2 minutes to start playing. I am typically a mile or two from home before it starts up. This is the (fast) Version 2 software!2) Sometimes it starts playing. Other times it shows a disclaimer and switches to map view and starts playing when prompted.3) Sometimes it restarts at the same song it was playing when you had turned off the engine. Sometimes.4) Although it advertizes iPod compatibility, it does not have iTunes compatibility. The ID3 tags generated by iTunes do not work in the player, so no song details.5) The Bluetooth will let me dial out, but my Motorola phone will not be answered properly by it. Instead the person calling me hears the music I am listening to, nothing else.6) The voice recognition system does not. I state a telephone number; it misses the last digit, consistently. Even if you speak another phrase, like ‘please’, it does not get them all.7) My address book would not transfer from my phone?8) Basically it does not operate with my flip phone.9) It says it will work with 8GB SD cards – eventually. One time I left work (silently – no tunes yet), was about three miles down the highway when it eventually presented me with my Password screen. It would not let me enter anything until I had pulled into a parking lot and put on the foot brake. Then I was able to start the machine again. I was about five miles down the road before a first tune started. I stopped off to pick up something from the store. Big mistake. It never recovered. I have gone back to using 1GB SD cards; that it can manage. 10) The map lost its view a couple of times, the cursor just walks off a static screen. None too helpful.11) It entertains me by behaving differently every time I power it up.12) I tried the help desk. Six menus later, it tells me that there is a training session and should call back. I did, and waded through the same six menus before speaking to a person.13) I found out they cannot upgrade the system with ID3, said it was a hardware shortfall, and oh yes, let me know it is one of the slower models to start up. I know ID3 is not hardware, it maybe is firmware, and they probably cannot access it from the USB port. 14) [$] installed. It sounds OK, except when you run it hard for a while. Then it is distorted until the unit cools down again.15) You cannot turn off the ‘beep’ every time you press a button on the steering column control.16) It lags badly at times. You end up touching a button multiple times and toggling it (a few seconds later…..)This proved hard work for me. Too hard.