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I ordered a 2019 LX and I'm going to pick it up next week. I plan on having the head unit replaced by a professional car stereo installer. I know on the EX, the automatic locking and unlocking of the doors (when shifting into drive for locking or into park for unlocking) is an option controlled by the EX touch screen head unit. Is that feature controlled by the factory head unit in the LX? Also, are there any climate controls in the LX head unit like there are in the EX? I didn't fuss with the LX head unit for very long when buying the car because I knew I was going to replace it and my attention was focused on other things, like sale price and avoiding the 1.5L turbo engine. As soon as I saw the 2020 LX is going to have the same engine as the higher trims, that made the decision to buy the 2019 LX so much easier.
I do not want any automatic locking and unlocking of the doors. The car doesn't get to decide when to do that. Only I do.
If there are any vehicle controls unrelated to the audio system in the LX head unit, can anyone recommend a good aftermarket head unit that will integrate these features so as to not lose any vehicle functionality? I'm looking for something with a SiriusXM tuner that can make full use of the steering wheel controls, headliner bluetooth microphone for voice calls, and can read music off a USB flash drive connected inside the USB port in the center console. Particularly, I'd really like a unit that allows me to access individual music files off that USB using a folder tree system, not the embedded audio information in the individual files. I have about 30GB of music organized in over 500 folders, and I don't want to have to scroll through 300+ album titles to find the one I want when driving 70 mph.
Apple car play would be nice, as would the ability to watch DVDs while driving, but I don't really care about those too much. Unless I can get a head unit that does Apple car play over bluetooth, I'd probably never even use it, since I'm planning to keep that USB drive in the one center console port all the time, and there won't be anywhere to connect the Apple lightning cable. I'll probably just use waze on my phone screen. Unless a second USB port could be added somewhere, but now I'm just rambling.
I ordered a 2019 LX and I'm going to pick it up next week. I plan on having the head unit replaced by a professional car stereo installer. I know on the EX, the automatic locking and unlocking of the doors (when shifting into drive for locking or into park for unlocking) is an option controlled by the EX touch screen head unit. Is that feature controlled by the factory head unit in the LX? Also, are there any climate controls in the LX head unit like there are in the EX? I didn't fuss with the LX head unit for very long when buying the car because I knew I was going to replace it and my attention was focused on other things, like sale price and avoiding the 1.5L turbo engine. As soon as I saw the 2020 LX is going to have the same engine as the higher trims, that made the decision to buy the 2019 LX so much easier.
I do not want any automatic locking and unlocking of the doors. The car doesn't get to decide when to do that. Only I do.
If there are any vehicle controls unrelated to the audio system in the LX head unit, can anyone recommend a good aftermarket head unit that will integrate these features so as to not lose any vehicle functionality? I'm looking for something with a SiriusXM tuner that can make full use of the steering wheel controls, headliner bluetooth microphone for voice calls, and can read music off a USB flash drive connected inside the USB port in the center console. Particularly, I'd really like a unit that allows me to access individual music files off that USB using a folder tree system, not the embedded audio information in the individual files. I have about 30GB of music organized in over 500 folders, and I don't want to have to scroll through 300+ album titles to find the one I want when driving 70 mph.
Apple car play would be nice, as would the ability to watch DVDs while driving, but I don't really care about those too much. Unless I can get a head unit that does Apple car play over bluetooth, I'd probably never even use it, since I'm planning to keep that USB drive in the one center console port all the time, and there won't be anywhere to connect the Apple lightning cable. I'll probably just use waze on my phone screen. Unless a second USB port could be added somewhere, but now I'm just rambling.