anyone get their nav to detour arround traffic incident?

[torbach1]

Hi Folks:

I've driven first an '07 G35x and now an 09 M45x with Nav over the last 4.5 years. In both cars, I have never been able to get the Nav system to detour me around a traffic incident or heavy traffic as indicated by XM traffic. I've tried this on several occasions in areas where I know of at least 2 decent detours that it could have offered me, but it always says that it can't find a suitable alternative route. When I travel outside of the area I live in, this is particularly annoying since that's obviously when I need it most.

Thanks a lot
t1

[joe603]

sorry, I don't pay for the extra traffic cost on mine...I did try and use it when I first purchased the car and it did the same as yours. Now when I want to detour, I'll just change the preferred roads to non-highway (which I can do while moving now after my NAV bypass mod )

[Fezzik]

Yeah. Mine does. It said traffic accident and gave me the option to reroute around affected area.

[torbach1]

Thanks Fezzik. Did you in any of these cases accept it's offer to reroute you, and get a detour? I'm just asking because mine has maybe on one occasion or two at most, but when I accepted it's offer, it then still told me it couldn't find a route.

Thanks again for your response.
Tamir

[Fezzik]

Yep I accepted the detour and took it. I was driving by the interstate that was a parking lot. So it felt good to see it work.

[torbach1]

Good to hear. Thanks for your response Fezzik. At least we know that it can work. In the meantime, due to financial constraints, I have had to sell my M45x along with my very high monthly payments and very high mileage payments, and got a 2nd hand 2010 (ie. latest shape) GTI. It's been a pleasure hanging out with you guys while I owned both the G35x, and the M45x. Very nice community of people here, who, most importantly, with a few exceptions, love cars in general, not just their own car, and have respect for cars from Infiniti, as well as those from other manufacturers (again, there are exceptions, but that is to be expected). That's a refreshing change from some of the forums I've belonged to in the past - in particular the BMW forums. For the most part, on those forums, you can complain as much as you want about your BMW, but if you don't drive a BMW, or if you say anything nice about any car from another manufacturer you get slammed, which is ridiculous, since no matter how nice BMW's are to drive (and they are, but they're defficient in other areas), that doesn't take away from some of the other excellent cars out there, and some of the amazing progress that manufacturers like Infiniti have made - let alone manufacturers like Hyundai/Kia, whom while not competing with Infiniti or BMW just yet, have moved from being crap mobiles 10 years ago to being on top of their respective vehicle categories in most of the categories they compete in whilst maintaining the lowest prices and best warranties in those categories. If I said that in the BMW forum, I'd be slammed with comments like 'Infiniti is just a dressed up Nissan (and what's wrong with Nissan by the way - they also make some pretty amazing cars - like the GTR), Hyunai is just crap, etc.', as opposed to 'ok, I prefer my BMW, but you're right that it is impressive what Infiniti has done in the last 5 or 6 years with the new G, the previous M, and now the new M, but I'll stick to my BMW for now'.

Cheers for now everyone. I'll come and hang out every now and then. Infiniti is still so far my favorite brand. In a separate posting, I'll write a long story about how I moved from being a BMW fanatic to becoming an Infiniti fan, and hating BMW dealers, and some of their cars.

[Fezzik]

Sad to see you go, but we understand. Come back anytime!!!

[torbach1]

What rules did we break on this thread?

[torbach1]

ok, nice to see that automated moderator message about banning us removed. I'm still wondering what that was about...

Cheers
T1

[chris01i30]

Just drove my car back from Richmond VA to Connecticut.

There was one of those highway alert signs alerting to a 27 mile backup near exit 76 on 95 (in NJ I think). I figured Id let the nav system do its job.

Sure enough about an hour later when I was on the cusp of "point of no return" sticking on 95, the nav system flashed traffic alert, reshuffled the route and told me where to go. In essence, it worked perfectly.

Do I need XM traffic day in and day out? Most likely not, but it might be something Id pay for during the summer to help during trips/vacations.