Best data SIM for car connectivity?

[Ken Figenus]

The car's gramaphone/wireless system takes a SIM card for slightly mysterious reasons - assume its help with Nav, speed limit display and other connected reasons. The Porsche Connect thing via an expensive annual Vodafone sub is not worth bothering with IMHO, having tried it (wont unlock doors from phone like my free BMW one did for eg]

I found a contract free SIM deal with O2 that costs very little and has a long time before credits expire:

3p Minute
2p Text
1p MB
Free SIM
No expiry* Top up as and when you like, Call, text or use some data at least once every 6 months to keep active

Seems like a good solution?

[daydotz]

3 also have a pay as you go sim with a identical price or you can also get a data reward sim that gives you 200mb a month & the same 321 rate

[The_Jackal]

Smarty is quite a good deal these days, rolling contract.

[AJB88]

What Porsche PCM is it? my headunit takes a simcard as well PCM3.1 think you can make calls directly from it.

[JonChalk]

I have been using one of these for the past two years in my Audi & have never got anywhere near running out, even with Google maps, traffic and my wife hotspotting on long journeys (good throughout Europe as well).

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Three-Mobile-Pay-Broadb...

[Ken Figenus]

That's a good one Jon - £30 a year is very do-able.

I think its the PCM 2 - 2017 car. Total bag of spanners - wont even rip a CD which makes the HDD pointless!

[AJB88]

PCM 4.0

Mines PCM 3.1 in 2015 model..you gave to load music via USB

[pmanson]

JonChalk said:

I have been using one of these for the past two years in my Audi & have never got anywhere near running out, even with Google maps, traffic and my wife hotspotting on long journeys (good throughout Europe as well).

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Three-Mobile-Pay-Broadb...

I've got the same one in my Volvo. Works well - I use it for streaming Spotify etc via the car

[Ken Figenus]

AJB88 said:

PCM 4.0

Mines PCM 3.1 in 2015 model..you gave to load music via USB

I now load my music onto a 64Gb SD card as FLAC files - seems pointless ripping a disk to USB and then copying to car's small HDD. The lesser faff of just popping a disk in and ripping to car HDD was great on the previous BMW.

Now this really is a top SIM tip as I can whip that out and put it in my Dual SIM S7 and take it to bl00dy Peru with me for data on hols in a few months - imagine the roaming cost otherwise! V grateful for that tip!

[JonChalk]

Ken Figenus said:

I now load my music onto a 64Gb SD card as FLAC files - seems pointless ripping a disk to USB and then copying to car's small HDD. The lesser faff of just popping a disk in and ripping to car HDD was great on the previous BMW.

Now this really is a top SIM tip as I can whip that out and put it in my Dual SIM S7 and take it to bl00dy Peru with me for data on hols in a few months - imagine the roaming cost otherwise! V grateful for that tip!

No problem.