StephenVRS

I have been following this with interest, and quite a bit of frustration as it appears that those of us with older cars may be out of luck. But there may be some hope! I have an early 2014 petrol 220 VRS with perhaps unusually a winter pack and MIB1 Amundsen head unit. Sorry not sure if this was standard for that 1st half of year 2014. I found TMC quite useful, as although I have a Garmin satnav, that predates my purchase of the car, the satnav does not have TMC, and it is so old now live traffic though Garmin’s smartphone link is not supported, and from the reviews I have seen live traffic may have data size and power drain isue on phones anyway. MIB 1 maps updates ended in 2020/2021 so when I noted some posts about older maps having the INRIX data and one from Tell with the settings to adjust “15 is no online traffic, Trafficmaster RDS TMC 14 is no online traffic, ITIS/INRIX RDS TMC “ I thought lets have a look as I have Obdeleven Pro My unit was coded with 15 So I tried setting it to 14. I then turned off the ignition, removed the key, removed the Obdeleven Pro dongle. Turned car back on and then reset the Head unit by pressing the power button for about 10 seconds. Once the satnav got going (takes a minute or two) I waited a couple of extra minutes and when I pressed TRAFFIC button I have TMC back! Given that there are no newer maps for MIB1 This may mean some inaccuracies on the TMC reports, but from what saw all looks as good. I still use the Garmin sat nav which still gets map updates for actual driving, but having TMC back is good as in the past it has saved me from some holdups. The most recent maps file I downloaded was STD1_P94_EU_202022.zip but looking in the zip it is described as SystemName=" ECE 2020/21 " I hope this is of some use to people with MIB1 Amundsen units.