by "The World of Vee" (theworldofvee)
Published 02/13/2017 at 11:04
by "The World of Vee" (theworldofvee)
Published 02/13/2017 at 11:04
Tags: Volvo
STARS: 2
This is a 2017!!! XC60. Look how confusing this shit is. I’m usually good with infotainment but this is so complicated. The new sensus is so simple but this is just amazingly convoluted.
Also the interior is just so dated. The linear wood is cool but the rest is atrocious. I bet dealers can’t wait for the 60 series refresh.
"Nibby" (nibby68)
02/13/2017 at 11:06, STARS: 0
That’s an XC60 interior, not an XC90
"The World of Vee" (theworldofvee)
02/13/2017 at 11:06, STARS: 0
UghI write about the XC90 so much it autocorrect. Hold on
"ceanderson920" (ceanderson9290)
02/13/2017 at 11:09, STARS: 1
Were you listening to the Thursday afternoon just before Friday Monday morning podcast with old billy red balls?
"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
02/13/2017 at 11:09, STARS: 2
I would honestly take that over a second touchscreen. I think it only gets cluttered because of the built-in dialing, which seems a bit dated. The rest — mainly the HVAC diagram — looks pretty sweet. The BLIS button sounds amazing.
"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
02/13/2017 at 11:10, STARS: 0
What’s with that screen being all offset? Widescreen people!
"Honeybunchesofgoats" (honeybunche0fgoats)
02/13/2017 at 11:10, STARS: 1
How is it confusing? There are so many buttons and it looks like minimal touchscreen bullshit.
"The World of Vee" (theworldofvee)
02/13/2017 at 11:12, STARS: 0
I certainly was!
"The World of Vee" (theworldofvee)
02/13/2017 at 11:13, STARS: 1
The screen is operated by the upper right knob. And almost every function works with just that one knob and it only rotates left and right.
I’m not a Luddite or anything but trust me it’s very confusing.
"The World of Vee" (theworldofvee)
02/13/2017 at 11:13, STARS: 0
That’sabout all they could fit in this old chassis I think.
"71MGBGT Likes Subarus of Unusual Colors" (adamprotter)
02/13/2017 at 11:15, STARS: 1
The 60K Polestar has that same system. There’s a reason my mom didn’t get that car
"The World of Vee" (theworldofvee)
02/13/2017 at 11:15, STARS: 1
There’s no touch at all. The screen is operated by the upper right knob and it’s two buttons and a left and right and because of that they have to really change things around to make it work.
It’severything that was wrong with old infotainment system that brought along carplay and Android auto, which also aren’t all that good.
Volvo’s new sensus touch is much better.
"The World of Vee" (theworldofvee)
02/13/2017 at 11:17, STARS: 0
Yeah the polestar is great but this is garbage
"ceanderson920" (ceanderson9290)
02/13/2017 at 11:18, STARS: 1
Nice! His new one is up now I am gonna start it here at lunch time. Also burr was just on the marshall pruett podcast talking about F1, if you like racing Marshall Pruett puts together a really good one.
"CobraJoe" (cobrajoe)
02/13/2017 at 11:18, STARS: 2
I really don’t see why it’s so confusing.
Every button has a clear label and there is some logic to the layout (radio on top, hvac on bottom)
Having owned a much simplified version of that, I can say that the only real annoyance was that the buttons were a little difficult to identify by feel. (I owned a V50, but an S40 and C30 are practically the same interior)
"The World of Vee" (theworldofvee)
02/13/2017 at 11:20, STARS: 0
His racing analysis has me in stitches. Burr knows nothing about it and it’s awesome.
"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland)
02/13/2017 at 11:20, STARS: 0
While there are a lot of buttons it doesn’t look that hard to get the defrost going and 98.5 on the radio. It just a layout issue and not looking neat and tiddy.
"For Sweden" (rallybeetle)
02/13/2017 at 11:21, STARS: 2
Except it’s not complicated at all? All of the functions are quite clearly labeled.
"The World of Vee" (theworldofvee)
02/13/2017 at 11:22, STARS: 0
Ita because with this old sensus system the computer does most of the work and the buttons are largely useless. And to use the computer you have a tiny little knob. Like I wanted to pause my podcast and I saw a button for forward and back and all these other things but no play/pause.
The new sensus has everything touch but volume, forward, back, play and pause all have physical buttons.
Much simpler.
"The World of Vee" (theworldofvee)
02/13/2017 at 11:23, STARS: 0
Tell me how to pause whatever is playing.
"For Sweden" (rallybeetle)
02/13/2017 at 11:24, STARS: 17
Use the keypad to call the radio station and ask them to pause.
"The World of Vee" (theworldofvee)
02/13/2017 at 11:27, STARS: 0
Good snark. It’s a podcast so no, but on my s90 it’s just the center button.
Thats what got me searching everything in the first place. Seems like a pretty basic function to be missing no?
How about rewinding 15 seconds?
All these things are standard on modern info systems.
"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
02/13/2017 at 11:27, STARS: 2
Pick up your phone and press pause in the app.
"Future next gen S2000 owner" (future-next-gen-s2000-owner)
02/13/2017 at 11:28, STARS: 0
Why would you ever want to stop the lovely beats?
"The World of Vee" (theworldofvee)
02/13/2017 at 11:28, STARS: 0
Defeats the whole purpose of having buttons for everything now doesn’t it?
Never change jalops.
"ceanderson920" (ceanderson9290)
02/13/2017 at 11:29, STARS: 1
Ha he has only watched it for half of last season! Im sure once he watches a few more races he will be able to give a pretty good analysis about each race. F1 should also pay for him to go to a race or something because they are getting a lot of US exposure with him talking about the races on his podcast.
"The World of Vee" (theworldofvee)
02/13/2017 at 11:29, STARS: 0
Many reasons but it usually pertains to podcasts.
Pause and rewind 15 seconds are very useful if you miss something or someone says something to you or (gasp) you get pulled over
"The World of Vee" (theworldofvee)
02/13/2017 at 11:30, STARS: 0
Haha he gets a pass! It’s just so funny to listen to him ramble about it.
He picked a great season with all the Mercedes drama haha.
"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
02/13/2017 at 11:32, STARS: 0
Serious answer: turn off the stereo .
It’s a bit counter-intuitive, but “power off” is basically pause. My BMW is the same way.
"ceanderson920" (ceanderson9290)
02/13/2017 at 11:33, STARS: 1
Hopefully this next season we will have a three team battle for the championship or at least RB or ferrari giving the Mercs something to sweat over.
"The World of Vee" (theworldofvee)
02/13/2017 at 11:34, STARS: 0
Seems to be the only way. On my s90 and FiST there’s a nice pause button to push that solves this problem.
It’sa really nice button.
"The World of Vee" (theworldofvee)
02/13/2017 at 11:34, STARS: 1
We’ll see, rb has a chance for sure
"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein)
02/13/2017 at 11:38, STARS: 0
Pause buttons don’t necessarily make a good infotainment system though.
My wife’s 2016 Impreza has pause buttons in the audio screens, but the infotainment in her car is atrociously bad.
The iDrive in my 2011 BMW is mediocre and has its own counter-intuitive quirks, some of which are quite stupid, but is at least noticeably better than hers.
I’m still not a fan of having a damn screen in my dash, tbh.
"71MGBGT Likes Subarus of Unusual Colors" (adamprotter)
02/13/2017 at 11:41, STARS: 0
I posted about how that system was garbage and people here got strangely defensive about it. It really doesn’t fit with the overall quality of these modern Volvo’s and very much looks like it’s top-of-the-line from 2005
"The World of Vee" (theworldofvee)
02/13/2017 at 11:42, STARS: 0
Read the thread I just made. People are insane.
"The World of Vee" (theworldofvee)
02/13/2017 at 11:43, STARS: 0
Of course not, but the difference between sensus (this) and sensus touch (90 series) is night and day. The touch is much much better.
"jasmits" (jasmits)
02/13/2017 at 11:44, STARS: 0
I was going to step up to defend Volvo because I had a very basic S40 with the above system and it was nice for what it was. I can see how the control interface that worked great for radio, CD, and HVAC probably would not be sufficient for a fully-featured infotainment system with only the addition of a little knob thingy
"EL_ULY" (uly)
02/13/2017 at 11:46, STARS: 0
turn the volume down fats and it pauses
"JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!" (jqj213)
02/13/2017 at 11:48, STARS: 0
It’s turned towards the driver, its a very nice touch actually
"71MGBGT Likes Subarus of Unusual Colors" (adamprotter)
02/13/2017 at 11:48, STARS: 1
I did, and no, you’re not crazy. This was my thread .
"JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder!" (jqj213)
02/13/2017 at 11:50, STARS: 1
In it’s defense, 2017 is probably the last year of that system. And it’s been around for years now.
Honestly though I prefer buttons to the touschreens. Everything is where it should be, dialing a number is a breeze because REAL buttons, there’s still knobs for volume and AC. It looks a bit cluttered, but a couple minutes with it and you know where 90 percent of what you need is.
Compared to those nightmare systems BMW and other premium companies do with stuff buried in screens, I quite like it.
"The World of Vee" (theworldofvee)
02/13/2017 at 11:54, STARS: 0
You’d think I insulted their mother or something lol
I love Volvo’s, literally own 3 90 series now, but the 60 and 40 are in bad need of an upgrade.
"The World of Vee" (theworldofvee)
02/13/2017 at 11:55, STARS: 0
I have three of the new ones now and now can compare them and it’s so much better.
"SpeedSix" (speedsix)
02/13/2017 at 11:55, STARS: 5
!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
You’re on Oppo - an XC60 is not an old Volvo to us, a 145 is.
:)
"71MGBGT Likes Subarus of Unusual Colors" (adamprotter)
02/13/2017 at 11:58, STARS: 1
The infotainment system is literally from 2005, it’s a teenager who is 5 years away from being able to drink beer in Sweden.
"The World of Vee" (theworldofvee)
02/13/2017 at 11:58, STARS: 0
Fair fair :)
"" (bignslow)
02/13/2017 at 12:23, STARS: 0
Olds Volvos are simple. That’s a fairly new Volvo. Still, could be worse. You could have a S40 with a TV remote in the middle of the dash.
"sn4cktimes" (snacktimes)
02/13/2017 at 12:42, STARS: 0
That horrible grid of buttons de-listed a Volvo in 2012/2013 for me.
"m-b-w loves his SUBAROO" (m-b-w)
02/13/2017 at 12:54, STARS: 0
Push the spinny thing on the steering wheel to the left of the volume buttons.
"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
02/13/2017 at 13:24, STARS: 0
The hell. I’ve never seen an infotainment system that just doesn’t have either a physical play/pause button, or a touch one when you’re on the now playing screen. Or both, really. Maybe the OK/Menu button? Or does that take you back a screen
"The World of Vee" (theworldofvee)
02/13/2017 at 14:37, STARS: 0
It’s just a loaner thankfully. The touch screen sensus is perfect.
"jkm7680" (jkm7680)
02/13/2017 at 17:13, STARS: 0
how can i sync my bluetooth dildo to it?
"Instagram Cracker" (instagramcracker)
02/23/2017 at 23:16, STARS: 1
I had a 1985 Volvo 245 Turbo wagon, and with the A/C on, if the weather conditions were just right and the fan was running full blast, the system would shoot little hailstones out of the center dash vents, all the way to the back seat.
I was never certain if this was a defect or a feature.
"The World of Vee" (theworldofvee)
02/24/2017 at 00:03, STARS: 0
Can confirm this feature/defect. I had a beige 940 GL (1994) for a few months in between my totaled PI and hand me down TL back in the early 2000s and it too loved to spout out little hailstones if you asked it politely.