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TomTom unveil CURFER a car and driver analyser


Article by: Darren Griffin
Date: 1 Sep 2016

pocketgpsworld.com
TomTom are busily announcing a raft of new products ahead of IFA Berlin opening its doors tomorrow.

One of the new products is TomTom CURFER, a hardware device that plugs into your cars OBDII port and links to your smartphone to provide feedback on your driving style and your car's performance.

It's an odd product, especially given it will cost £59.00. Are there that many drivers that want to analyse their driving style? The OBDII integration could prove useful, that gives access to a raft of car engine data that is otherwise inaccessible and every car sold in the EU since 2001 has this port fitted.

Source: tomtom.com



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Posted by DennisN on Thu Sep 01, 2016 1:21 pm Reply with quote

Does it do third party POIs?


Dennis

If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

 
Posted by Kremmen on Thu Sep 01, 2016 2:07 pm Reply with quote

Why pay £59 to tell me what I already know.


Satnav:
Garmin 2599 LMT-D (Indoor test rig)
DashCam:
Viofo A119 V3
Car Average MPG :

 
Posted by Allan_whoops on Thu Sep 01, 2016 2:25 pm Reply with quote

Why?

You can get a cheap ODBII Bluetooth interface and Torque for a lot less.

A solution looking for a problem?


 
Posted by northamsaint on Fri Sep 02, 2016 7:32 am Reply with quote

Not sure if this one is capable, but OBDII readers can also read fault codes and reset them. Very useful if you get an engine management light come up. The codes mean you can replace faulty sensors etc yourself rather than getting a garage to detect it at garage rates.


 
Posted by MaFt on Fri Sep 02, 2016 8:27 am Reply with quote

northamsaint Wrote:
Not sure if this one is capable, but OBDII readers can also read fault codes and reset them. Very useful if you get an engine management light come up. The codes mean you can replace faulty sensors etc yourself rather than getting a garage to detect it at garage rates.


I'm pretty sure if they added this feature then they'd have advertised it.

I reckon they won't want to 'risk' it. TomTom are a household name - allowing people to reset fault codes or view them for them to try fix things themselves will likely get them into hot water. Someone will do something stupid with a fault code (either clearing it and causing major problems or attempting to fix it themselves and blowing their engine up etc). Media will report it as "TomTom told me to explode my car".

MaFt


 
Posted by saywell on Fri Sep 02, 2016 8:38 am Reply with quote

You can get a cheap OBDII bluetooth 'plug' on ebay and a free app for your smartphone to do the exact same thing.


 
Posted by MaFt on Fri Sep 02, 2016 5:00 pm Reply with quote

saywell Wrote:
You can get a cheap OBDII bluetooth 'plug' on ebay and a free app for your smartphone to do the exact same thing.


But the people who know that aren't TomTom's market... They'll be pushing this through Halfords and the like.


 
Posted by northamsaint on Fri Sep 02, 2016 5:17 pm Reply with quote

saywell Wrote:
You can get a cheap OBDII bluetooth 'plug' on ebay and a free app for your smartphone to do the exact same thing.


From personal experience the free apps that do this are useless. I've also read that the Bluetooth examples aren't as easy to set up and keep connected as the WiFi versions. I run a WiFi one through DashCommander. To be honest it's just pretty lights and dials.


 
Posted by alix776 on Sat Sep 03, 2016 6:27 pm Reply with quote

The Bluetooth obd like the elm 327 are very easy to set up unless your on iOS and the apps will point you in Tue right direction you cant really break a car buy clearing a fault code unless your using professional grade software the apps on most phones usually will give you generic codes that point to a fault area


currently using aponia truck navigation on windows phone. Good bye IOS don't let the door hit you on the way out .

Oh the joys of being a courier.
device Lumia 950 xl

 
Posted by BenM on Mon Sep 05, 2016 1:40 pm Reply with quote

It will be interesting to see how the Car Finder feature works. Surely it can't be the same as a car tracker??
PS The voucher code Welcome15_uk knocks 8 quid off the asking price for this.


 
Posted by mcwarre on Tue Sep 06, 2016 10:04 am Reply with quote

BenM Wrote:
PS The voucher code Welcome15_uk knocks 8 quid off the asking price for this.


Thanks Ben. That still makes it about £51 overpriced IMHO Laughing


 
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