Canceling SiriusXM
We had a trial of SiriusXM on our 2012 Chevy 3500 when we bought it, but let expire. We recently got a great offer from them & am considering taking it as it will be effective during our trip time to ...
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Bobbo wrote:
Bought a car with a 6 month free Sirius subscription. Use the radio all the time. When the 6 months was over, Sirius stopped working.
Bought an RV with a 12 month free Sirius subscription. Rarely ever turn on the radio. We visit. That was over 7 years ago, and about once a year I turn on the radio to check the Sirius subscription. Still going strong. I figure that with the radio turned off, when Sirius sent the disable signal, the receiver never got it.
In 7 years, we have not logged 30 minutes of Sirius listening.
This is a well documented trick. Sign up for a trial and run the radio so it gets the unlock code, then turn it off for a few months. Initially they send out the lock code when your subscription expires, and they send it on a regular schedule. But as time goes by they reduce the frequency of those unlocks to your radio. Eventually they probably drop it completely. I think they've gotten smarter about this though and that's probably the reason they have these "free listening" promos around the holidays. I suspect that at the end of those promos they send a lock to all radios followed by the unlocks for those legitimately subscribed. If your radio is on while they're doing this it will get disabled unless it has an active subscription.
