V90 Sensus traffic messages

[mr rusty]

New V90 owner. Have been used to a citroen C5 with TMC traffic messages where you could set range. On my usual portsmouth - lancashire journey I usually get bombarded with messages about queues along the various motorways. In my V90 - nothing! About half way home I enabled RTTI and could see the green/red/amber edgings in places, but zero traffic messages.

Now it may just be it was a really good run, and in truth I didn't get held up hardly at all, but no messages is unusual.

So my question - does sensus nav display messages, and are these anywhere on the route? within a range?

any info on how this works or doesn't is helpful

[nu11eaf]

The one and only time I have ever heard a rtti message was when I had a route programmed in my sensus navigation, it offered me a alternative route due to slow moving traffic, I took it only to be held up for ages in slow stop start traffic due to major tailback from cars rejoining the road I was on originally, which caused the original slow traffic. But thats another story.

[Lexman8]

Roadworks, slow traffic, etc, will show up on the main map whether a route is programmed or not. In addition, with a route selected, severe delays or road closures will cause a pop-up message on the driver's screen with options to re-route.

[mr rusty]

Lexman - thanks for that. It sounds like I will get messages for severe delays but not just for slow traffic. My old citroen used to bombard me with "2 miles of slow traffic between ........" far too often, plus the more serious messages. Probably better - we'll see.

[Tresco85]

In our old XC60 we kept getting messages informing us of traffic problems but in a year in the new XC60 I have only seen one message.

[roundyuk]

The V40 had an option to announce traffic messages, think i’ve seen in in my 60 somewhere....gets annoying AF though!

[paulod]

Originally Posted by nu11eaf

The one and only time I have ever heard a rtti message was when I had a route programmed in my sensus navigation, it offered me a alternative route due to slow moving traffic, I took it only to be held up for ages in slow stop start traffic due to major tailback from cars rejoining the road I was on originally, which caused the original slow traffic. But thats another story.

I usually take the nav ETA with a pinch of salt as it's generally pretty optimistic but last Friday I had a similar notification with a detour and ended up in exactly the same situation as you

[mr rusty]

Thanks for all the replies. Really loving my V90.