Well, for those of you following the PX6 saga I've had with numerous defects, crashes and general unsuitability of the unit, here's the new chapter.
Aucar demanded $500 to replace my defective unit. I had contacted them well within the warranty period, but they dragged it out past a year and now say they are being very generous to offer me a $500 'upgrade' to the latest PX6 w/ Android 11.
At first I told them to kick rocks. Some time passed and the repeated failures of my PX6 pushed me to give them what they demanded. Stupid I know, but here we are.
On top of the $500, they demanded another $500 to hold for security in case I didn't return the defective PX6. Or I can simply put my truck down for whatever amount of time they would take for shipping the defective PX6 back and a new one out.
Yes, for those of you counting I'm now $2000 into this venture.
A few days ago the new unit arrives (10 days after paying them) and yesterday I got around to installing it.
First impressions, the screen protector is all gouged up and looks used. The unit itself had no less than 6 remembered wifi connections, none of which had Chinese names and there were 5 remembered Bluetooth connections. This leads me to believe this is a USED unit that someone has already returned as defective. Aucar claims these are part of the ‘testing’ process. I don’t believe them.
Next, for my $2000 they sent me the bottom of the line unit, 4GB of RAM and 64GB of Storage. I got it running with just a couple apps and have only 50% of the available space left for music downloads, map downloads and any movies I’d load on it. Clearly insufficient for my needs.
The console screen (sync2) does not respond to input. The radio works if you don’t use the Sync interface but the PX’s. Appears to be some sort of software defect as this worked on the old PX6.
It’s insisting on launching Android Auto instead of doing things natively, so I’ve been boning up on how to prevent this. Must be a setting somewhere to stop this from happening.
The interface disappears when you launch anything (instead of keeping the row of icons across the top.) Not sure there’s a fix for this as I’ve hunted pretty hard and there doesn’t seem to be a way to fix this.
And that’s it so far. In theory I will get $500 back when I ship the old PX6 back, and have sent them a message on the defects and the bottom of the line issue but I don’t expect much. So I’ll only have $1500 in a bottom of the line unit. I could have gone to Phoenix and gotten the top of the line for about $700.
And finally, I’d like to give a big @#%^ %$% shout out to Aucar, their crappy business practices, poor quality hardware and glitchy software.
