Traffic Announcements

[CuriousIslander]

I raised this issue some time ago but have so far not had any response......

The SatNav stopped working, and the traffic announcements have never worked since I bought the car (May this year) so I took the car into the dealership for a reset. They fixed the SatNav, and claimed to have fixed the traffic announcements, but they haven't. I am still not getting any traffic announcements - you know the thing - BBC local radio announcements that interrupt what you are listening to about every 30 minutes or so to advise on the local road and other travel problems as you drive around the country.

In the DAB radio settings I have "Service following" and both "Travel" and "Traffic" selected with all other options off (If anyone can tell me the difference between these 2 settings I would be very grateful - the dealership don't know!)
In the FM radio settings I have all 4 options selected.

However - no sign of any announcements. The dealership muttered something about setting some security codes (having claimed to have sorted them), so I didn't pursue it when I collected the car, but I am still puzzling as clearly they have achieved nothing.

I am sure that there are members of this forum who know much more about this than I and the dealership know, and if so I would welcome some ideas. I will shortly be taking a trip to Devon, and if they are still not working on this trip I will be going back to the dealership. This is just about the only feature of the car that really irritates me!

Any help to sort this would be most welcome

TIA

 

[NickHeynes]

Mine will only interrupt the radio (DAB or FM) with traffic broadcasts if I'm listening to the radio . Not if I'm using android auto.

 

[CuriousIslander]

Mine will only interrupt the radio (DAB or FM) with traffic broadcasts if I'm listening to the radio . Not if I'm using android auto.

Thank you for your response. This isn't the problem - I don't use Android Auto or Apple CarPlay, as I don't have a smartphone. I am wondering if it is something simple like a volume setting that is set at zero, but I don't think so.

On a related issue, when you have traffic announcements set to operate, is there any indication on the screen that they are active? On previous cars I have always had some indication such as "TP" or "TA" appearing on the screen.