My wife bought me this for Father's Day (2005) in a package deal with the car-mounting kit. It was very easy to setup and install. There are multiple ways you can mount it in your car.

I used it in my car that I drive to work every weekday for a month and really enjoyed it. The display is easy to read, and it's nice to be able to see the artist name and song title of what you're listening to. I also like having the "jump" button set to provide my local traffic report, so I can "jump" over, listen to the traffic and weather, and "jump" back to what I was listening to before.

Another function I discovered I really liked is that I can continue listening to the current station, and have the display list the artist name and song title playing on all the other stations - either EVERY Sirius station or just the stations that I have programmed into the 10 buttons on the receiver. So instead of stopping what I am listening to in order to "browse" what's on the other channels, I can just look at the list on the screen and see what songs are playing on the other channels. If there's a song I'd rather listen to on another channel, I just spin the dial down to highlight the channel I want and then push in on the dial to switch to that channel.

I've had some minor difficulties in finding clear FM frequencies to use in the DC area. I'll be using one frequency fine, but then I'll have to drive to the other side of DC for a meeting, and there will be a lot of static on that frequency, so I'll have to go through the setup and change the frequency to one that's clear in that neck of the woods. It's a little frustrating, but the controls are easy to operate, and I can do it while I drive. It's just annoying. I think anyone in a major metropolitan area or driving long distances through different cities would experience this problem.

I discovered the antenna plug isn't very rugged. We decided to drive up to New Hampshire for vacation, and I tried to transfer it over to our family car for the drive up and back. Big mistake. I don't know what I did or what went wrong. I thought everything went fine installing it in the other car. It became extremely sensitive to any wiggling of the antenna cable after that. Every ten minutes or so, I would have to reach up and wiggle the antenna cable in the antenna plug in the back of the receiver.

So if you plan to use it in more than one car, I would recommend buying another car kit rather than try to transfer the car kit. The receiver itself slides right in and out of the car kit and would transfer easily if I had two car kits. The antenna cable plugs into the back of the car kit, so you wouldn't risk damaging it if you had two kits.