Morning all

I've just accuired a 2010 sat nav disk which is TMC compatible and having put it in the DX unit in my 2005 Superb Elegance, it appears to have a fully working tmc function now.... I was under the impression that this was an optional extra? Just have to work out how to use it now!

Morning all

I've just accuired a 2010 sat nav disk which is TMC compatible and having put it in the DX unit in my 2005 Superb Elegance, it appears to have a fully working tmc function now.... I was under the impression that this was an optional extra? Just have to work out how to use it now!

The Sat Nav in Elegance is already wired for TMC - you only need th disc for it to work. You need to tune into a radio stration that uses TMC (Classic FM is one I believe) but you don't have to be listening to it - just have one of your buttons tuned to it. You will normally see a TMC and dots and an arrow on the Nav display if all is working ok.

OK - having a 2005 Elegance (with a 2006 disc) I'm getting to the point of being interested in a new disc - but what is TMC - am I missing out on something clever and important, or is it clever and unnecessary? Or not that clever at all?

cheers

It picks up traffic information from a signal carried by classic FM and then if you have your route set to dynamic guidance on the MFD then it will plot a route around the worst of the traffic.

In practise I found it as much use as tit's on a fish and have gone with a Garmin Nuvi 1690T with Nulink services and a brodit clip for it with hardwired install. New TMC disks are around £125

Where is the 2010 disc available?

Thanks

Where is the 2010 disc available?

Thanks

Try this link

http://navigation.teleatlas.com/en/shop/promotions/blaupunkt/?gclid=CI73yujMnqACFZIg3wodowxrdg

Or here

http://www.bluespot.co.uk/shop-online.aspx/blaupunkt-dx-map

If you just want to get from A - B every now and again it's fine, but I do a lot of miles and have never really found the TMC to work as it should. TomTom Live was the best option but to expensive, Garmin Nulink seems so far to be the best bang for buck's with it's live traffic updates coming from the traffic master system.

Still love the MFD in the car though as mine has the DSP package so the actual sound is pretty bloomin good

I wonder how difficult DSP would be to retro fit?

It picks up traffic information from a signal carried by classic FM and then if you have your route set to dynamic guidance on the MFD then it will plot a route around the worst of the traffic.

is this anything to do with the button you can press (bottom right corner) to call up delays ahead - or is it some automated version of it?

cheers

Edited 4 March, 201016 yr by sidewaze samm

is this anything to do with the button you can press (bottom right corner) to call up delays ahead - or is it some automated version of it?

cheers

Both mate, you can see the traffic delays by hitting the button and it is supposed to do dynamic routing. It's just not really that good at it. You go into your route options on the MFD and there are options for Quickest / Shortest and dynamic if you have a TMC enabled CD.

TomTom Live is probably the best traffic avoidance system, I had a go 940 Live and it was brilliant, just the £7.95 a month was a bit expensive. I am running a Garmin 1690T with Nulink that I switch between the car and the bike and it's brilliant. The traffic is not quite as swish as the TomTom Live, because it only uses the Traffic Master system and TomTom live can take data from other live units that is sent up via the sim card in the unit and work out the speed of other TomTom users and flag up traffic delays from that. So far however the Garmin has kept me moving in the last 1ok miles I have done since buying it, not missing a hotspot and always routing me around trouble.

Theres nothing at all wrong with the MFD, it will get you happily from A - B but in the 20+ K miles a year I am doing I have found the TMC to be pretty lacking in comparison.

I wonder how difficult DSP would be to retro fit?

Not sure The MFD's are identical I would guess and the DSP amp / box is in the boot. not sure if the DSP package includes extra speakers, but this is the best standard stereo I have ever had in a car. It even makes the iPhone sound pretty good.