I have searched this, but I am looking at stereos on crutchield.com and it asks if my car has it. I own a 2005 Cav, so does it have it? Do I need it on a new stereo?
if u have the monsoon system then yes u have rds. all it is the display of the song title. nothing you cant live without
No sorry you cars doesn't have me
My name Ryan Daniel Shissler (RDS)
1998 Sunfire, 2.2L auto
RDS is a radio feature. If you remove the factory radio, you remove the RDS. There isn't anything different about installing an aftermarket deck, whether you have RDS or not.
Think of it as a CD player. Some people have cassette, some people have CD.
i thought it was for the fm radio? like it will display the radio station and sometime the song? maybe, but mine says the blitz most of the time
2000 Camaro V6.
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Machzel08 (Cumberbund) wrote:if u have the monsoon system then yes u have rds. all it is the display of the song title. nothing you cant live without
I don't have the monsoon and I do have the RDS, and the display is up to the radio DJ. sometimes they forget about it and the wrong band and song names are displayed, personally I find it uderly useless.
get XM... they always have the right song title
Probably true of sirius too.
schembo2000 wrote:get XM... they always have the right song title Probably true of sirius too.
haha..yah XM and Sirus. But you forget to mention everytime you pass under a tree you've lost your signal.
hmm... i've never had that problem
yea lets pay $15 /mo for radio that i can get for free
LiquidFireCavy (mdk) wrote:yea lets pay $15 /mo for radio that i can get for free
yeah, AND,.... so what.............. i WILL pay my $10 ( yes i mean only 10 a mo., long story)for being able to listen to everything BUT the same crap that they just sit there and hit the repeat button on all songs
ohh, and i have that RDS, but no monsoon.......
HA HA..
RDS, rear deck speaker??? he he
actually it stands for Radio Data System
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Lenko, John Lenko wrote:There isn't anything different about installing an aftermarket deck, whether you have RDS or not.
it can be expensive though. replacing an RDS system for an aftermarket.
2005 Saturn Ion Redline
how would it be any different than a radio not equipped with rds? it's the same thing. Just think of RDS as another radio feature that has nothing to do with the rest of the car.
schembo2000 wrote:how would it be any different than a radio not equipped with rds? it's the same thing. Just think of RDS as another radio feature that has nothing to do with the rest of the car.
some RDS cars/trucks need a special wire harness/adaptor
2005 Saturn Ion Redline
sorry, i'll refraise. if you have your door chime come through your speakers, you need the adaptor. RDS was the easy way to tell on 2000 GM cars.
2005 Saturn Ion Redline
on my non rds radio, my door chimes came through the speakers too. that's not an RDS thing, that's a Class 2 thing. RDS is, as said before, radio data system. it let's the dj's display information about the song and title, or whatever else they want.
Eric wrote:sorry, i'll refraise. if you have your door chime come through your speakers, you need the adaptor. RDS was the easy way to tell on 2000 GM cars.
Ahhh.... stop spreading misinformation!!!!
All 2000+ J-cars use the stock radio to generate the door chimes. All of them. That includes RDS.
Like I said... RDS is a radio feature. There is no external wiring associated with it. The wiring harness in the car, and the harness for an aftermarket radio is THE SAME regardless of whether the car has RDS or not.
