This happened this past week on my 2012 Chevy Cruze --
"This is your car speaking. Help!! I need an oil change. Take me to Jiffy Lube Now" It didn't actually speak, the words just appeared & scrolled on the infotainment screen. At first I thought it was an ad from the radio station (not Satellite), but it's been there for days now. I don't how it got there or how to delete it.
The DIC is fine - it was reset on Wed when I had the oil changed. I had the day off & planned to get it changed cuzz it was due. The msg was still showing up on Thursday.
It's an advertisement from the radio station. Instead of sending out the song information on the sub-channel they're sending out a paid advertisement. My only question is does this station also play commercials or do they have a commercial free format and this is how they're paying for the station.
Last time I went to jiffy lube they left my oil cap off and I drove around all day with it off and had a mess in my engine bay. Last time I went to jiffy lube.
Seen this back as far as at least 2012 with my cruze. A few local stations the RDS info changes for the commercials and will include local phone numbers for the business or maybe the website. Changes with every commercial just like it does with every song.
I'm wondering if the local FM stations here even have the equipment to send the RDS out, since they aren't sending the song information now. Can't wait for an ad to show up on Black Betty's screens? SWMBO will go bonkers.
We big cities have that stuff and this sure did mess with the OP's head .
1 can only speculate how much Goofie stuff we''ll get now that RDS will become more prevelant . And to the average undereducated dumbskill .
Yeah, you can turn RDS off on my car too. It will also let you search the RDS channels by category, or genre. I guess that's for when you are away from your normal listening area.