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Waze vs SiriusXM Traffic

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Coming back from NYC to Toronto, I was running both Waze and the Uconnect 730 navigation, it appears Uconnect was actively peeping traffic, it rerouted me 4 times and some parts of the rerouting was parallel to the highway and I could see traffic at a standstill, Waze did it once and it looked like a convoluted reroute so I ignored it.

Never had luck with Waze in Toronto, always tend to route you to another congested route vs my secret routes, which I will not expose to Waze.
 
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Coming back from NYC to Toronto, I was running both Waze and the Uconnect 730 navigation, it appears Uconnect was actively peeping traffic, it rerouted me 4 times and some parts of the rerouting was parallel to the highway and I could see traffic at a standstill, <snip>
I have the 430N and am using the free 1 yr subscription to Sirius/XM. I was under the impression that the traffic information was not available in the Jeep. Do you have a US or Canadian subscription?
 
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I have the 430N and am using the free 1 yr subscription to Sirius/XM. I was under the impression that the traffic information was not available in the Jeep. Do you have a US or Canadian subscription?
I'm not sure, the 730 was replaced about two weeks after I bought the Wrangler, so I don't know if there was a mixup when they ordered the replacement radio.

However I noticed the traffic icon go green a couple of weeks ago, for the last 4 months it wasn't green, I don't use GPS in Toronto so I don't know if it works here, but it did in New York.

I'll test it out tonight and get back to you about the results.
 
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Apparently when the icon goes green it means that there is an active subscription.

In the image it shows a construction icon also, but that is one of the very few that displayed in Toronto, I saw about 3 traffic related icons when I zoomed out.

I took two trips this afternoon one around the city and one to the airport, and I was never rerouted, so I guess there is no Canadian support, however, I don't need that kind of guidance for 95% of my driving which is limited to the downtown core.

Will do some test for the rest of the week in the mornings and afternoons when traffic it heavier.

It came in really handy on the NY trip though, hopefully it's the 5 year "free" subscription, at least I get a little nugget of gold for the $400 XM option that I don't use.
 

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Nothing beats waze for traffic and nav. XM traffic is based on local gov't traffic sources. Waze is crowd sourced by others using the waze app. I added a RAM mount to put a $75 android tablet next to the head unit to get waze. The days of auto mfgr's depending on new sales due to built in obsolesce with their crap technology are coming to an end quickly. IMO, no traffic or GPS unit in any car can beat waze. Short of what they are putting in Tesla's.
 
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One big difference is that XM traffic only serves certain cities (none within an hour of me); whereas waze is everywhere. Google maps also uses waze data if you want to avoid another app.
 
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"Systems that will support the five-year subscription to SiriusXM Traffic and SiriusXM Travel Link include Uconnect 8.4AN, Uconnect 8.4N, Uconnect 730N and Uconnect 430N."

I must be misunderstanding what you are saying as this quote from the press release seems pretty unambiguous to me - it states that the Uconnect 430N is included in the supported systems. As it is not working in 2015 JKU then it seems like they didn't update the software as promised in the new release. I think that meets the definition of reneging. ("renege = go back on a promise, undertaking, or contract.)
 
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It's simple. All 430N radios, not just 2015, don't support SiriusXM Traffic. The Garmin nav software on the 430N doesn't support SiriusXM Traffic. The 430N does support Travel Link, which is not the same and has no ties to navigation. The only thing supported on the 430N is Travel Link, and as such, the press release is not 100% accurate.
 
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Does not appear that the Canadian subscriptions support SiriusXM Traffic or SiriusXM Travel Link, maybe they made a mistake and gave me a US subscription with the replacement 730N.

A web search returns quite a few discussions about these services in Canada. I am just happy mine works in the US which is where I would need it the most.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=jeep+...=ANJOTFIPR9dbY1TTfQ89eIpjuvutk8VAJowhyOrDRULT
 
#16 ·
My question is HOW is XM/Sirius still in business?

Mediocre sound quality
The WORST customer disservice in the history of :censored: service.
Plethora of FREE Music sources on Everybody's Dumbphone.

I don't get it.
 
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I run both Waze and a Garmin Nuvi something with traffic. It's funny one GPS will say turn right, and the other left. Personally I don't trust Waze as my only nav device. It has some cool features but every now and then it does some weird stuff. It once routed me into this maze of a subdivision with no way out. It would have had me going down someones driveway, through their back yard and then out.
 
#26 ·
this is the whole reason people are running to bling cars like beemers and mercs

The sale and service experience is significantly better than what we have to deal with at FCA or similar domestics.

I want a Sahara with a soft top only but I cannot get that configuration, apparently it's a luxury model, so we FCA think you need a hard top and optional soft.

The standard radio in the Sahara is the 430 and mandatory Sirius for $350, so that cost you a whopping $1,600 in total for something that I don't want and sounds like crap, just gimme the 130 and I can take some of that money and add the optional premium sound.

The extra money I have left I can get the headliner and maybe temp control or use it towards other things like max tow or anti spin diff that I really need.

Back in my TJ days I used to take it to an Acura dealership for something simple as an oil change, which cost $5 more than the Jeep dealer, but instead of having to deal with the usual Jeep dealership shakedown and ripoff pitches for unnecessary additional services and their scare tactics, not to mention the one cheap or no coffee. At the Acura dealer, they change the oil, wash the Wrangler and I get unlimited cappuccino while I wait in a fancy room with TV, vs the crappy waiting room at the Jeep people.

I gave up on the Jeep/Chrysler dealerships after I had to take in my 2 year old TJ for a $50 dollar emission testing, they called my name over the PA system then told me I had nails in 2 of the wheels, $40 to fix each tire, I told them to park my f'ing Wrangler outside as is, took it to a garage a block away, when the guy pulled the screws, sure enough they were brand new screws, and both were the same type of screws. That dealership went out of business a few years later go figure.

In my 30+ years of driving that was the only time I ever got a puncture, they used to pull the same crap on me with the Stealth.
 
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