NEW VERSION tomtom RDS TMC reciever out yet?

pdegg · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 31, 2006 Posts: 10

Thanks for that - was going by the part number that expansys use. Will hold fire for now. Thanks again.

Tim Buxton · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 7:34 pm Post subject:

The other thread is here. Thanks Mike.
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rjm2k · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 15, 2003 Posts: 34

Small update on my new receiver, I drove from Leeds to Blackpool using the receiver and found a few things. As has happened before, I was stuck in congestion yet the tomtom showed my side of the M62 as clear and the other side (which was clear) as congested. I've installed the new version of the tomtom app (v7) and found that although the TMC icon went green much quicker than before (well, with the old receiver it never really went green), there were occasions where it went amber trying to locate a station, it seemed to stick on this and when I went into the Traffic settings showed it stuck on 89.something and not scanning. When I selected manual tune and entered any rubbish, it said no station found but then went on to successfully locate a station rather than being stuck. It appears it may get stuck and need a kick to start looking properly. Reception on the M62 was ok, but the rest of the route (M56 I think it was) was very poor and it couldn't seem to find a station most of the way. All in all, even with the new receiver I don't think it's a system which is working very well at the moment.

othilla · Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:35 pm Post subject:

Well I am now on my second 3.75 receiver after telling TomTom about losing all stations when using the charger cable and guess what this one is exactly the same,worse than the original.So if any one has a OneXL can they please please try it with the charger plugged in and tell me if it works as I am ready to sling it Mad

mikealder · Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:38 pm Post subject:

I have used mine with the One XL and the car charger cable it works fine, do you get reception in the car if you unplug the car charger? - if so I would suspect the charger is faulty and get that replaced before trying another RDS device - Mike

falkirk81 · Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:44 pm Post subject:

Right, so i finally got my new version of the tt traffic receiver back and its works now in a v strange way an mentioned by rjm2k. Got to work the other day and plugged it in just like the old version. After about 5secs of orange circle then downloading icon, got a green icon. I thought, wow thats great. But then looking on the map with traffic option ticked, saw a long term stretch of roadworks near the north shields/a19 junction wasnt on even though the roadworks are still on. Anyway, played about with the traffic settings and it quickly downloaded the correct info and the roadworks were there. Later on that evening, i noticed that the green circle hardly even shows anymore, mostly just the downloading data icon appears unless you go into the traffic setting and select auto-tune. The it displays "going to the next station" and immediately goes green circle again. Think something isnt quite right with it, but its definately better than the old one i had. Any other tt1 3rd editions with newest tmc receiver finding this issue?
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othilla · Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 6:40 pm Post subject:

Thanks Mike .Yes I get brilliant reception if I unplug the charger.

othilla · Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 7:41 pm Post subject:

Just had a trip to halfords and purchased a new car charger and it does exactly the same thing knocks the RDS-TMC out,luckily I got my money back.

beaconlegal · Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 4:47 pm Post subject: Athermic windscreens ...

Travelled all the way from Malvern to Scarborough and back on Monday. Had solid lock and information over 95% of the time, I would say. It switched seemlessly from Sutton Coldfield to Holme Moss on the way up the M1 and worked like a dream. Even saved us a nasty 1 hour delay which we were able to route around when we found out about it.

BUT - the first portion of the journey (Malvern to Derby) was in a friend's car and from Derby to Scarborough was in a white van, neither of which, as far as I know, had athermic windscreens.

Back into my own car and instantly back to very sketchy reception - barely any at all in Worcestershire until north of the M42.

Used a similar layout pattern for the cable in each vehicle. As far as I know, the only difference is that my car has an athermic windscreen. I wonder, if it were "accidentally" broken, whether I could get it replaced with a non-athermic one on the insurance .... Wink

vibeone · Lifetime Member Joined: Mar 08, 2006 Posts: 128

WHERE ARE you guys buying the new version from? and how much?

falkirk81 · Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 5:00 pm Post subject:

I bought the "latest" receiver from argos for £35, then found out it was in fact the "oldest" rds-tmc receiver there was. Emailed tomtom about swapping this not so reliable one for the newest one. It took me a week from initial complaint to brand new tmc receiver landing on my doorstep!
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5lab · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 15, 2007 Posts: 18

when are your TMC recievers arriving? I've *still* not got mine despite having posted the old one a month ago. Every time i phone i'm just told their out of stock

does it matter that both versions listed on my rma are

TomTom RDS-TMC Traffic Receiver EU v3.0 [M] 2V00.004.2

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Scotty-uk · Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 1:29 am Post subject:

I first logged my complaint about the TMC on the 2nd November.....2006!!

I chased it in March and asked for Traffic to be given to me whilst I was waiting they refused.

In July I asked again and ewas granted 3 months which runs out next week.

I complained last week that many people had been sent replacement units and many hadn't been waiting as long as as patiently as myself.

They replied :

"The reason you have not been contacted is because the product is not yet ready to be shipped out to you. The product will be re-released very soon. When this is released you will be contacted.

Please note that you have not been left at the back of the queue. All customers with the same issue are experiencing the same delays. We thank you for your kind patience.

With Best Regards

The TomTom Customer Support Team"

I've complained again as my Traffic will run out and I still won't have a working TMC receiver. It's not in "research" status.

So are they lieing to me or is there another new model coming out? Or is there some other explanation? Confused

Scotty-uk · Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2007 12:20 am Post subject:

After a further complaint I've been granted a further 3 months with Traffic.

It seems they're not expecting to ship the new unit soon. Confused

Now all they've got to do is sort out why after paying for the latest maps, I've been unable to get them Rolling Eyes

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