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      06-28-2018, 05:36 PM   #1
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RTTI a paid service now?

Been driving my BEV for 2 weeks and didn't even notice till today at first I thought maybe I just needed to enable it, but I guess it's a paid service now?
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I believe the first few years are free. 3 from what I heard. So your 2015 might have ended. Personally, I've never used rtti since I use Waze, but I do like and use the Connected app.

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FYI Apparently there is usually a good deal on Black Friday:

http://f30.bimmerpost.com/forums/sho....php?t=1507408
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I believe the first few years are free. 3 from what I heard. So your 2015 might have ended. Personally, I've never used rtti since I use Waze, but I do like and use the Connected app.

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Interesting so when did they start charging for this service? On my M5 I have RTTI and don't pay for it.

I'll check the website thanks.
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FYI Apparently there is usually a good deal on Black Friday:

http://f30.bimmerpost.com/forums/sho....php?t=1507408
Guess I might wait till then. Thanks.
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Interesting so when did they start charging for this service? On my M5 I have RTTI and don't pay for it.

I'll check the website thanks.
I'm not sure. It still works in both my i3 and my M3.
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I'm not sure. It still works in both my i3 and my M3.
Some "prepaid" period is usually included with new BMW purchase. The length of that period varies by model.
I think it was ~3 years on my M3, maybe 1 year on the i3.

The challenge with BMW's build-in nav are outdated maps and persistently weird rout selection. On most of my long trips, BMW's nav picks a rout inferior to Google's, so I end up relying on Google Nav to over-ride BMW directions.

I do like M3's nav integration into heads-up-display, but even there, when there is traffic, I launch Google Maps.

Consequently, I can't recommend paying for BMW's RTTI service.
Even if it gets as good of traffic updates and Google, BMW's nav system makes a mess of rout selection afterwords.

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