Navman ICN530 & T1 si

mikewall · Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 1:57 pm Post subject: Navman ICN530 & T1 si

I've been using the icn530 and the traffic module for about a week now, i can't praise the combination enough! It has saved me about 5hrs this week alone diverting me around traffic jams, accidents, ect. The icn530 is the most truck friendly unit i've tried to date, and i've tried a few!!! (TomTom500, ViaMichelin, Destinator ND, Garmin i3) Rolling Eyes

I've emailed Navman to see if in a future update they can include the option to avoid a POI group, as i have low bridges on my unit this alone would improve suitability for HGV/PSV drivers, if i can find a good weight limit/width limit POI set then this would make a great improvement for all large vehicles. I'll keep you informed of any reply. Idea

Stanley_Tweedle · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 10, 2005 Posts: 207

Thanks for the info! but tell us more.
If there were to be a 12 mile tail back on the M1 how soon would it route you off? Obviously junctions approaching the tail back can quickly become clogged so I'd rather leave the motorway before everyone else?
Does it then try to put you back on the original route of does it tend to abandon that route completely?
How relevant and up to date is the actual traffic reporting?

mikewall · Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 10:07 pm Post subject:

It updates any traffic hold ups as soon as it recieves a broadcast, usally every 2 mins but more often in rush hours, the entire length of the hold up is marked on your map as a purple/pink road! it will divert you off as soon as a suitable route is found. E.g on monday it picked up that the M3 was down to 5mph at Winchester Nth junction, I was heading into a drop near that junction, so the unit took me off at eastleigh and up into Winchester, as i came off the M3 the traffic was slowing down just past the exit. The icn530 showed the M3 as a purple/pink road just after the junction! This was the first time it diverted me. Then today it took me off the M1 just before Milton Keynes up to the next Junction and back on. you can see the M1 from this road and i did smile to myself as i passed all the slow traffic, I had no idea this traffic jam was there! i only heard about it on the radio an hour after i had passed the accident!!!!

on the other note I have recieved an email back from Navman saying that my idea has been passed onto there development dept and they would let me know if anything comes of it!! at least it's a reply and within a day! very good Navman. Emailed TomTom 3 months ago still no reply!!! (but no tomtom now ha ha ha :P )

Simon300 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 07, 2006 Posts: 12

Thanks for the info Mike - very useful.

I bought my iCN530 about a month ago and have been very pleased with it indeed - I'm at the point where I almost trust it totally and have stopped even worrying about double checking routes in a map book.

To be honest, as an occassional business driver, I wasn't going to bother with the traffic module. However after finding the A303 (one of the South West's main trunk roads) completely closed the other evening I'm now a bit more tempted (although in fairness to the Navman once I went "off-piste" from the diversion it got me back onto a sensible route - it would have saved me time though had I known about the closure before I set off).

A couple of questions:
1) Do you think it shows temporary road closures for road works? E.g. the road above was closed only at night for several evenings last week.

2) How easy is it to remove from the car? E.g. does it clip onto the main unit and then you remove the whole thing (which presumably won't fit in the leather pouch), or does it come out in pieces, or does the traffic module have to stay in the car? Apart from a few minor software annoyances the only thing I don't like about the iCN530 is that I find the cradle fiddly to use (maybe I've not developed the right knack yet!).

I'm just wondering whether I'd be equally pleased if I spent more money on the traffic module... Question

Sunnygjg · Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:17 pm Post subject:

Yes thanks for the information Mike.
Like you and Simon I am chuffed to bits with the 530, it has been absolutely brilliant thus far, and I am very tempted to purchase the traffic module. Like Simon though, I would class myself as a casual user at the minute and wonder if I can justify the extra dosh. Smile

anesbitt · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 07, 2006 Posts: 29

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BV05 · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 11, 2006 Posts: 3

I've been using this for week or so in a Ford with heated screen - traffic info takes a while to come on stream but once there seems to work fine. Trouble is the updates aren't always quick enough so you can be in it before you know and its tricky working out if a divert is worthwhile based just on traffic speeds - they can change again very quickly. Overall pretty satsified with it however.

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