NEW VERSION tomtom RDS TMC reciever out yet?

5lab · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 15, 2007 Posts: 18

hmm i've now been told they have none in stock. anyone else had this? I'm currently without a reciever of any sort.. Sad

Summerlightning · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 30, 2004 Posts: 2

Has anyone else had an e-mail from TT asking for 50 euros to exchange their mk1 TMC/RDS unit?
Good grief their support just gets worse.
Also you cannot send them an e-mail directly anymore.
You have to go through the website.
Garmin have nothing to be worried about.
SL

falkirk81 · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:39 pm Post subject:

No i wasnt asked for ANY money, i bought a brand new tt rds-tmc from argos in newcastle, and found out it is the original one. so i emailed tomtom saying that its not good enough and doesnt work properly and that i want the latest receiver asap. Next day, no questions asked either, a box arrived for me to send the aforementioned tmc receiver and my dates receipt 21/10/07 back to them! i must admit, i cant fault their service this time! Smile

EDIT: forgot to mention, i told tomtom in my email that the version i had bought as "new" a week ago was 4v00.000 or something like that (its all boxed up for posting now, sorry!) and that i had read on the internet a new version 4v00.013 was out and thats what i want as a replacement!
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Wazza_G · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 2:42 pm Post subject:

According to this link:
http://www.tomtom.com/news/category.php?ID=4&NID=422&Lid=1

The new version has now been released into the UK market, yet when I checked the site it's nowhere to be seen... Confused

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

Can anyone confirm this at Amazon is the latest receiver?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/TomTom-9V00-017-RDS-TMC-Receiver/dp/B000W3H2A6

Tim Buxton · Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 6:38 pm Post subject:

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

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