New owner 2017 Sonic RS Wheel issues

[airheadbit]

After I rolled my 2005 Aveo last year I started looking for a replacement, I liked the ease and cost of replacement parts so I stuck with Chevy. It seemed every car I came across in the classified ads were sold with in minutes of listing, I finally found a Sonic that was listed without pictures and the wrong phone number, I knew the dealership it was listed with and called directly. When I took a bus (200 miles) to pick up the car I discovered it was an 'RS', that was a good thing, the seat was conformable for the drive home, unlike my Aveo which causes backaches after 30 minutes of driving.
One of the first things I did when I got home was check out the spare tire and tools to change the tire, I discovered the wench to remove the lug nuts did not provide me with enough leverage, my 14" cross lug wench nor my 20" cross lug wrench didn't provide the leverage either. I figured someone had over torqued the lug nuts, they were black with acorn shaped caps, one was missing the cap, I took the car in and had the tires rotated figuring they would set the proper torque. I still could not get the lug nuts off and now three of the lug nuts were missing the caps, I checked with a Chevy dealer and found the lug nuts were suppose to be stainless steel at $10 each from the dealer.. I replaced the lug nuts with the factory ones using a borrowed 1/2" torque wrench and added a 20" breaker bar with a 19mm socked to the spare tire tools.

The only issue I have with the car is the entertainment center, how do I disable SiriusXM from screaming at me every time the car starts?

 

[efaily]

Congrats on the car! You might want to use a wire brush to clean any rust off the wheel studs. Adding a little bit of anti-seize to the wheel studs should help prevent them from sticking also. Not too much though, you don't want to interfere with being able to torque them to the correct specs. Both my kids have 2014 Sonic RS's, so I'm not sure if the entertainment center is the same as your 2017. What specifically is happening when your car starts?

 

[airheadbit]

If the 2017 Sonic "Infotainment System" was on when the car was shutdown then when you start the car SiriusXM pops up loudly trolling for me to purchase a 'plan'. I tried setting the 'default' Maximum Startup Volume to 0 but it only allows you to set it to 13, not off, I found these setting in the Personalization Menus. I have Android Auto enabled and if I have my phone plugged into the USB port mapping shows on the
Infotainment System screen when the car starts, if I was playing audio from my phone when I shut the car off the next time I start the car with the phone plugged in it start playing audio from the phone. If the phone isn't plugged in I get SiriusXM. Another option in the Personalization Menus is Radio, AM/FM/SiriusXM/USB/AUX for the default device. I will try a thumb drive with some music next, I tried FM and AM but where I live there is no FM or AM... The hands free phone works GREAT, nobody complains about background noise since the Sonic has decent sound deadening. I cleaned all my projects out of the garage to make room for the Sonic, scraping ice off windows at -2°F with a 30Mph breeze sucks and at $4.40 a gallon running the car until the ice is gone sucks.

 

[efaily]

That does sound annoying. The older sonic has a different system, no Android Auto unfortunately. Do you have the owner's manual? Anything in there about it? If not, try calling or stopping into a Chevy dealer.