Rx 400h Reversing Lights, Rds And Am Reception.

[Chris Davis]

Generally, I'm delighted with my car (which I've now had for 2 years and 28,000 miles) but I do have some minor niggles and wonder if anyone has solved them.

1. The rear view camera is brilliant EXCEPT AT NIGHT! The reversing lights are nothing like bright enough. Even using the fog rear light too doesn't give a clear image. Any ideas?

2. When on a long journey, I like to have the RDS traffic announcements enabled. It is infuriating when the radio then cuts out, intermittently, sometimes several times a minute, without going to traffic news, and you lose a few seconds of the broadcast to which you're listening. This can mean missing keywords and losing the sense of the programme. (I predominantly listen to Radio 4.) This never happened in any of my last three vehicles, all of which had the RDS system (all SAABs). My dealer simply says it's a very sensitive system! Any ideas?

3. The AM reception (for Radio 5 Live) is lousy! Again, the SAABs were infinitely superior. Surely a supposedly top of the range Mark Levinson sound system should be better than this?

[ihpj]

I had an RX on loan for many weeks a while back, can't say I found MW reception to be poor on the car (it was an 07/2007).

My only bug-bear was it had no LW so I could not listen to TMS!

As for the reversing camera (and lights) yes they are very poor. Maybe *cough* you should do a Forum Search on that ;)