XTR8 Sirius Satellite Radio Receiver and Car Kit

by Xact

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10 x 9 x 2.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000BSEA6G
• Item model number: XTR8CK
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #75,501 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 23, 2006

Product Description

With Xact's XTR8CK Sirius Plug & Play Radio Receiver and Vehicle Kit, you've got a world of options for exploring a new kind of radio. Enjoy 120 channel of innovative, commercial-free radio at home or in your car. Wireless IR remote Illuminated keypad and control buttons Vehicle Kit Features - Docking cradle with suction mount, Stereo Line Level audio outputs, vehicle antenna, 12v power adapter

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Sirius programming is great...Xact XTR8 ain't so great, June 21, 2006

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Richard (Encino, CA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: XTR8 Sirius Satellite Radio Receiver and Car Kit (Electronics)

I have had this product since December 22, 2005. My use typically involves keeping it in my car, and then moving it into my office, and so on. In about March of this year, the radio began to intermittently shut off when I hit bumps or stopped suddenly. I would have to jiggle the power cord (which fits into jack on the side of the radio) in order to make it work. This power outage began to occur more and more often, and then began to become problematic even while the radio was just sitting on the shelf in my office. Calls to Sirius and then to Xact proved frustrating. Xact had unreasonable demands in order to provide warranty service, and didn't offer much help. They were reluctant and, in fact refused to give me the address of the main office of Xact, as I had wished to inform Xact's president of their shoddy service. In any event, as of yesterday, the radio died completely...no power cord jiggling miracle! I can either buy a new radio or send it to them and wait for them to take their time to return it. I am choosing to buy another radio.

While this radio functioned quite nicely at first, it is not reliable, as you can tell from this and the other reviews...terrible customer service from the company exacorbates the situation. Stay away from Xact...

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Xact Xtr8ck Receiver Totally Stopped Wrkng -- Xact Folks, Pay Attention, April 19, 2006

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AM User (LA County) - See all my reviews

This review is from: XTR8 Sirius Satellite Radio Receiver and Car Kit (Electronics)

One quick note to all of you -- anybody giving a good review for this inferior product has NOT HAD THE UNIT LONG ENOUGH TO WITNESS ITS ULTIMATE DEMISE. Notice that the few pple who gave this a good review, got it as a gift Xmas 2005, and then wrote their naive reviews only a couple weeks later.

I got mine March 2006 for the car and it totally just died in April 2006. Xact will act like this problem is new but if enough people complain online maybe they will come up with a new policy to give customers a free upgrade to a better product.

For me ... I will be returning this to the store -- but a hassle that customers do not deserve.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Avoid this player, August 21, 2006

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A. Flory "Trent Knox" (Huntington, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: XTR8 Sirius Satellite Radio Receiver and Car Kit (Electronics)

About 4 months after activating this unit I would occasionally get the "antenna not detected" message and lose my signal. I would just tap the antenna connection and the message would go away and the signla would return. Annoying yes but I can live with that. Now half the LCD display is gone and the antenna not detected message often appears (or should I say used to appear as the display only half works). I treated the unit carefully and would not even transport it from my car into the house as it was just too much effort. I called Xact and while the woman I spoke to was very polite she said they are out of stock and as soon as they get more in stock they will contact me for a replacement. Two months later and I see Amazon has them in stock and I still have heard nothing from Xact.....

As an update Xact did call me back and after paying to ship the product back to Xact, they did send me a replacement unit 2 weeks later. However right out of the box the #3 button does not even work!