TomTom traffic on Command

[keith of kent]

2015 E Class. From new MB give you 3 years of TomTom traffic so that the system sees problems ahead on a planned route, I paid to extend this for another 3 years but in 2021 that expired and I didn't renew it as with covid I wasn't going anywhere.
So now if there is a problem on the navigated route the system doesn't know about it.
However we have just been to Germany, imagine my surprise when it announced that there was a traffic holdup in 30km with a 10 minute delay, just as it used to do. On the screen I could also see where the delay was. Command used to say;" the route is being changed due to traffic conditions"; this time it didn't do that bit.
During our mini brake this senario occured several times, also in Belgium. I don't know about France as we on went through a short bit of it.
So do the Europeans get this service free of charge whilst us Brits have to pay for it?
I know that there will be loads of people telling me to use Waze but I've tried it and prefer the bigger screen on Command

 

[st13phil]

However we have just been to Germany, imagine my surprise when it announced that there was a traffic holdup in 30km with a 10 minute delay, just as it used to do.

ISTR that in Germany COMAND uses the Traffic Message Channel (TMC) if you don't have an active TomTom subscription, but in the UK no subscription = no traffic info.

 

[DSM10000]

ISTR that in Germany COMAND uses the Traffic Message Channel (TMC) if you don't have an active TomTom subscription, but in the UK no subscription = no traffic info.

My elderly NTG1 system will warn of traffic problems en-route and will then offer new route options. This must be using the TMC broadcast?

I have no subscription set up.

 

[st13phil]

This must be using the TMC broadcast?

Yes it would be.

With the later versions of COMAND ISTR that it would use TMC until you subscribed to TomTom traffic and once that was activated it used the subscription service. The rub was that if the subscription lapsed, COMAND didn't revert to using TMC in the UK - it just went dumb. However, I have a vague recollection that it would revert to using TMC when outside the UK even with a lapsed TomTom traffic subscription.

 

[BTB 500]

I know that there will be loads of people telling me to use Waze but I've tried it and prefer the bigger screen on Command

No idea what's possible on a 2015 W212 but if you have Android Auto / Apple CarPlay you get the phone app running on the car screen.

 

[Riverman]

2015 E Class. From new MB give you 3 years of TomTom traffic so that the system sees problems ahead on a planned route, I paid to extend this for another 3 years but in 2021 that expired and I didn't renew it as with covid I wasn't going anywhere.
So now if there is a problem on the navigated route the system doesn't know about it.
However we have just been to Germany, imagine my surprise when it announced that there was a traffic holdup in 30km with a 10 minute delay, just as it used to do. On the screen I could also see where the delay was. Command used to say;" the route is being changed due to traffic conditions"; this time it didn't do that bit.
During our mini brake this senario occured several times, also in Belgium. I don't know about France as we on went through a short bit of it.
So do the Europeans get this service free of charge whilst us Brits have to pay for it?
I know that there will be loads of people telling me to use Waze but I've tried it and prefer the bigger screen on Command

Hi
I have just taken delivery of new (72plate) C43 AMG Coupe and miss the traffic delays info for the entered route that used to be on my Jaguar XKR. I think it came from the TMC channel on the radio. Have I not set something correctly or do I have to rely on coloured lines on the map?
The voice telling me there is slow traffic ahead was a great help. Can I get that on C43?
Riverman