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I have a BMW 530d with professional sat nav. As far as I can tell from the manual with the traffic info enabled, it should reroute you around any known jams. This simple does not work; I do however get a message at start up that “there are traffic problems on your route” but no further information. I had despaired with this aspect of the system, until I was in France when it worked exactly as advertised and said “there are traffic problems on your route, do you require a reroute” when confirmed the system took me around the problem area - just as I thought it should. Is there any reason that this system does not work in the UK? Alternatively, do I have the system set up incorrectly? The disc is 2006 and the traffic info is enabled
Any one with any ideas?
Martin
Any one with any ideas?
Martin
I have a 2006/7 Z4M and the satnav picks up TMC data from classic FM (only UK channel) You need to have TMC selected and then you can scroll down traffic messages. It also calls your attention to close problems. You then have to press select to request a route diversion. It seemed to work fine on a recent 500mile trip down to the home counties / M25 last week. It did seem overwhelmed though by increasing gridlock due to the bad weather! You can of course leave it tuned to classic FM and listen to the CD. Any other radio ststion will switch off TMC. Maybe in France you were listening to the TMC channel?
ian in lancs said:
I have a 2006/7 Z4M and the satnav picks up TMC data from classic FM (only UK channel) You need to have TMC selected and then you can scroll down traffic messages. It also calls your attention to close problems. You then have to press select to request a route diversion. It seemed to work fine on a recent 500mile trip down to the home counties / M25 last week. It did seem overwhelmed though by increasing gridlock due to the bad weather! You can of course leave it tuned to classic FM and listen to the CD. Any other radio ststion will switch off TMC. Maybe in France you were listening to the TMC channel?
Not quite correct - the BMW units have dual tuners so that one can stay locked in on Classic, whilst the other lets you listen to another station.NickXX said:
ian in lancs said:
I have a 2006/7 Z4M and the satnav picks up TMC data from classic FM (only UK channel) You need to have TMC selected and then you can scroll down traffic messages. It also calls your attention to close problems. You then have to press select to request a route diversion. It seemed to work fine on a recent 500mile trip down to the home counties / M25 last week. It did seem overwhelmed though by increasing gridlock due to the bad weather! You can of course leave it tuned to classic FM and listen to the CD. Any other radio ststion will switch off TMC. Maybe in France you were listening to the TMC channel?
Not quite correct - the BMW units have dual tuners so that one can stay locked in on Classic, whilst the other lets you listen to another station.Gassing Station | BMW General | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff