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  1. Hi Subby, You planning on going from a powerful V6 to a battery powered expensive snail? Might wanna rethink that. Depending on your age group, if your a young person, I wouldn't recommend Lexus. Unless of course you only want comfort for any cost. As a package Lexus sucks at all tech. Like a boring 90s infotainment unit that doesn't integrate to anything. A cigarette charger that is not practical so you can't charge any devices properly. A Qi that only works for tiny phones that most probably don't have wireless charging and a very bad so called Mark Levinson system that lacks bass and volume. Oh DAB+ is horrible too. A Nissan Juke has a very good antenna that can receive great quality digital radio. If none of this matters, then the choice is yours. I've got a NX200t F sport. The drive is super fun most of the time. But music and navigation is piss poor for a luxury brand.
  2. Hey there mate, Not sure how much data is been used by Spotify, but I listen to it a lot at work and while driving. I've got 12GB in my quota, so I don't even look at how much is used. Sorry about that.
  3. I'm not sure how you found albums which were mostly rap artist, 'cause I listen to music from a number of genres such as 80s 90s and some 2000s which has a lot of pop. Perhaps, the free version of Spotify seems to play quite a fair bit of songs by rap artists. Also, the good thing is that you can create your own playlist with songs that you like. So I've created a number of playlist with songs that I already had on mp3 which were available on Spotify. They even have songs for different moods. Never seemed to be a fan of Pandora though. It seems to be quite popular but I found Spotify a lot better. Perhaps, it's just that I make my own playlist and like listening to my own songs than ration stations.
  4. Hi Alex, Google NX TRD body kit. This is the TRD kit from Toyota. It looks pretty good. But I don't' think it's offered here. I think some dealers can get it but it'll cost yo and arm and a leg. But if someone knows where to get it I'd like to know about it too.
  5. Listening to streaming music on Spotify Premium and on my phone has no quality issue other than the very noticeable bass loss and low volume. But listening to music on DAB and FM is quite disappointing. The Euro that I owned had a very basic system but had very good sound balance. I've compared the DAB on other car brands and they are much much better than the NX. Part of buying a luxury car and paying top $ for the top spec in that model is to get good products. But the NX sound system has been a letdown. I thought it was just me and had a few friends sit in the car and test the system and I could see the disappointment in their face. I've always listen to music in mp3 format and the songs I have are encoded at 320kbps. Spotify Premium has 3 qualities and I've tried them all. But a car manufacture cannot tell their customers to use CDs as they are better quality. With mp3s and streaming services out there, sale of CDs have slumped in the last few years. Cause there are alternative music services out there, car manufacturer implement them, so you cannot go to customers and say use CDs. Bluetooth music streaming at times seems like a hit and miss with some phone manufacturers. But listening to music via a 3.5mm input should eliminate the Bluetooth implementation issues between phone manufacturer's but in the NXs case there's a noticeable volume and bass drop. I've got a Note 4 and I've read it's got Bluetooth issues which I've noticed. Every now and then I notice a slight drag for a moment in some songs. Also, the break up of sound, which can be quite annoying. I don't know why with such new technology Samsung still seems to struggle with such issues. The iPhone on the other hand doesn't suffer from this issue. But my preference has been always non iPhone. Just my preference. So my question is why is Lexus putting in ML system that don't have good balanced music while other car manufacturers seem to do a better job. So it seems like it's a well known issue that ML systems lack bass? So why does Lexus talk highly about their ML system when they know it's not balanced well. Also, why use ML. When there known manufacturers that seem to offer well balanced systems in the luxury market? My bad Lexus Nerd, Windows 3.1 was 90s. I totally agree with you on the job shuffle but my experience on the BMW entertainment interface has been great. But when it comes to NX it just feels very basic and even worse Toyota shares this interface or may be slightly modified version of it. Shouldn't Lexus have a higher quality system as we are paying more? Talking about the Enform app, how often do they update it and introduce new features?
  6. Hi pedro1956 There is a fullstop in the character keyboard. You have to click on the 'up' arrow to make the letters simple case. You'll find the full stop in there. 'Cause you do need the full stop to enter the email address as there is a ".com" for most people. I've added Pandora and logged in successfully with my email address. Hope this helps you.
  7. Hi All, Lexus Infotainment seems to be extremely poorly implemented for a luxury brand. Other luxury brands such as BMW have a great interface. Like p0c1, 1 year to add Pandora into Enform (which look like a Windows 95 rip off of a software). Just out of curiosity, everyone seems to talk about Pandora, but no one seems to mention about Spotify. Is it that it's not popular here in Australia? It's a great service and you can create your own playlist and listen to tons of music and albums from many artists, except... for Taylor Swift.. She said No No to Spotify Suppose the waiting period is a year for it to be added :( Hopefully, Lexus knows that such a service exists... :P :P :P
  8. Hi SG-One, I thought I was the only one experiencing these issues. But good to know that you've realised this as well. I went to the local dealer and tested a couple of other NX and they all sound the same. I find it really strange that no one has complained or atleast commented about this as well. Even the dealer didn't realize how low the volume was till I showed them. And they said no one has complained about it. I also, looked at the option of getting a custom made sub added to the boot. 'Cause the sub in the NX is more of a mid range woofer and not an actual subwoofer. Quite frankly, I find Lexus quite disappointing. Especially after paying all that money. The only thing I'm happy with is the engine and how it drives and the comfort level. Also, I find that the dealer useless as they don't seem to have a clue of what the car can and can't do. I visited another dealer and they were trying to say it's ok to have such low volume and was trying to argue how Mark Levinson is the best out there. Clearly other car manufacturers use Bose, Harmon Kardon, Pioneer and some other unknown generic brands that sound way way better thank the Mark Levinson stuff. Also, one of the dealers said every car is tuned differently. They say something just to derail you from the actual problem. The most disappointing was the sound system followed by the navigation. Why are major roads in dark orange and when there's a traffic incident they are in a red colour that's quite close to the orange. So it's just not striking enough. My $90 Garmin does a job that's 100 times better. Even the menu system is very Windows 3.1 from back in the 80s. Before I bought the NX I was comparing the X3. I've heard mixed reactions with European cars, but now I'm thinking I should have gone for an X3. Atleast, I'll be happy with everything I would have paid for. Also, it would have come with Apple car play and the Android car interface as well. The only downside been the price as I'll pay a bit more to get everything that the NX offers on an X3.
  9. Hi All, I've got a NX200t EP 2 with the Mark Levinsons audio system but it doesn't seem to cut it for me. I'm no music mystro, but it feels like the music that I listen to which is mostly pop, rnb and hiphop feels like it's missing a lot of bass. The mids are out there in my face but very low bass. I've even cranked up the bass and reduced the mids and highs. I got a hire car which was the bass model CT200h which I Pioneer speakers, I believe, and it sounded so much better. Also, when I connect to the system using the 3.5mm jack I didn't have to crank up the volume more than 50. But on my NX200t I have to crank it up all the way to close to 60 or max. :( Which I've got no idea why. I've even tried it through the Bluetooth and have the same issue. I'm pretty sure I'm not going deaf :-) I also don't know why volume seems to work on an acceptable level after 40. Why do I have to crank up volume more than half to get descent volume level? The one thing I realize recently is that the NX200t advertisement has a couple of people playing instruments from an Orchestra or something... does that mean Mark Lenvinson is designed for people who want to listen to classical music? :( Also, Lexus was saying that I should try it on a CD. For me... CD days are long gone. I only use Spotify now. I had a Honda Accord Euro before the NX and it had a superb sound system. Had a separate control for the subwoofer. Which is not available on the NX. Anyone else experience the same thing as me?
  10. I seem to get that issue sometimes. I didn't think of it as much, but yes, it seems to wait for another press on the button to open up the back. I started to notice a new issue/thing (not sure what to call it). While driving the steering seems quite light and loose and then tends to feel tight all of a sudden. I've also noticed that it happen when I run on uneven road patches. Does that happen to anyone else? I thought the steering should always be firm and not loosen and tighten up. Gives a very unsafe feeling.
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