mmorse

i’ve noticed the radio doesn’t come on right when the car is started. there is a 6-8 second delay before the radio starts to play. i assume this is normal but checking here nonetheless. have had many cars including six other vettes and have never experienced this kind of delay. thoughts?

JerryU

^^
Yep, have mine set to play >1000 songs from a thumb drive in shuffle mode as soon as I start the car. It's seldom off-my method of dealing with road and tire noise-I drown it out!

Yes it takes perhaps 5 seconds to come on but unlike older Vettes it's like everything else in the C7, computer controlled. It's booting up! No big deal!

mmorse

Frodo

Its normal. Like Jerry said, its booting up the computer (s). We're moving onto the age of driving a computer running a sports car app.

NSC5

And if you are using it with an XM channel it has to grab and buffer the data stream from the satellite before it starts playing which will be slower if in a garage or elsewhere that doesn't totally block but attenuates the satellite signal.

nethole

my ford 150 starts to power up things when the driver door opens, while it's a bit of a drain on the battery if you're continually going in and out of the truck, it's a godsend when actually getting in to drive somewhere and you don't want to have to wait friggen forever for little things like the 'radio, or rear view camera' system to work.

mmorse

walleyejack

yes, i understand. that is 6 seconds of your life wasted.

Avanti

It amazes me how many things that seemed nearly instantaneous in an analog world seems to take way too long in the digital. Another? For whom did it take as long to put on the parking brake as the electronic one takes? Over and over I'm not impressed beyond the electronics it takes to run the engine so efficiently and so well.

NSC5

I noticed today in my 2018 GMC 2500HD Denali another form of delay. Mine is still in the 3 month complimentary WiFi hot spot subscription and shortly after startup I tried to change XM channels and it showed the new favorite highlighted but stayed tuned where it was. A couple of seconds later the "WiFi available" message shows up on the infotainment screen and then it finally changed to the selected channel. I think the problem is a combination of poor programming and too much going on during initialization.

My 2014 ATS is much worse because the backup camera is usually slow enough to come up that it often isn't worth waiting for and frequently just after startup the camera view is suddenly blanked out by the "iPhone connected" message. It took a real brainiac in the programming department to think it was a good idea to interrupt what could be a critical display with a stupid nag message. Probably more of the same outsourced garbage that plagues several major insurance company IT departments.

mcoomer

What other issues are you having?