Do any 2009 Maxima owners have the NavTraffic feature added with their SiriusXM subscription? If so how has it been working out for you?

Thanks

aogburn

 

I used it for a little over 2 years before not renewing. I found it of limited use as I found myself already in the queue for 10s of mins by the time the notification came across. Plus, lack of integration to the Nav meant even if the system notified you of traffic ahead, you had to request the new route via your Nav system.

 

I will not be renewing my traffic next time around. I live in the NYC tri-state area and it covers very few highways (No secondary or side roads). It does not cover 287 in NJ which is a major highway. Sirius/XM should just go to Google and have them run a feed through so we can get Google traffic which is 1,000 times better.

Get the weather, that is a little more useful but not by much.

 

Don't forget, weather is NOT available in the 09!

 

Alright. I really appreciate all your help.

 

As part of my trial XM package, I had both the weather and traffic systems.
Neither worked very well at all. The weather kept notifying me of gale force winds 20+ miles away and I don't need my car to give me a three day, very general forecast. I have a phone. I use an app on my phone, like an adult. ;-)
As for Traffic, that was a huge disappointment. I had a TomTom that used the same RDS signal, but it would calculate ETA's by figuring in traffic conditions and current speed. My nav never did that.
As a matter of fact, the traffic was almost always wrong and the ETA wouldn't ever properly update. I remember driving downtown and the nav saying the ETA was 15 minutes. It stayed that way for over 45 minutes and the traffic data never displayed the delay I was physically experiencing.
If you want to save some dough, use googlemaps or waze to get reasonably good traffic info and ETA's (waze is better than google still, despite google purchasing waze).
Not worth the extra cash, sadly.

 

I only use to find out if I have to take side roads or not coming from work. The time to arrival feature is what I use the most and I think it's worth the $43 a year!

 

See, that was my problem. That function never, ever worked. Not once. And I used the nav virtually every day for 3 months straight with traffic.
Maybe it's not right in the Chicago area, but to my mind, it was going to be a waste of money.
Glad it works for you. If that was ever even close to right for me, I'd probably feel the same as you do!