steveblanksby said:
I've just joined the forums (as I have placed an order for a new 500!!) and I have also been looking into the 'expensive' Tomtom.
I have discovered that there's an OS update that can be applied to a retail
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to add the Blue&Me functionality but I've been struggling to find any where that will sell me the cradle.
The Fiat Tomtom is not working with the 500 Blue&Me !
(it works only in new Fiats like the Punto EVO and new Doblo).
The port in the dashboard is the same and the Tomtom gets power but it will not connect with the 500 and so all the Fiat specific features of the "Fiat Tomtom" are not working in the 500 (control with steering wheel buttons, show nearest petrol station when fuel is low....)
Months ago there were rumours that there will be an update for the 500 blue&me, but so far nothing happened.
My personal guess is that with the next MY or facelift the Tomtom will work in new 500's but there will never be an update that makes it work in older 500's.
And if iam wrong i still can put the Fiat OS on my tomtom if i really need this features.
So at the moment it makes no sense to install the Fiat Tomtom OS on a normal Tomtom (or buy the Fiat Tomtom
far a 500, because it costs more and you can not use it in other cars if you not buy an suction cradle)
Fiat tomtom =~350€+80€ for the suction cradle with TMC
Tomtom Go750T =210€+40€ for the fiat cradle (if it is number 71805795, if it is availible, if it really costs only 40€ and if it works)
180€ less for the same features !
And its not only the money, what pisses me of is that no one at fiat can tell if the fiat tomtom will work in the 500 or not and when.
Also my dealer could not tell me if 71805795 or 71805796 is the fiat cradle,
a mail from Fiat said it is 96 (and 95 is something else), after 6 weeks waiting for the part i know it is not the 96 because this is the suction kit (came in original tomtom box, i have no clue why fiat sells this and why it took 6weeks to deliver, if you buy it at tomtom.com you have it in 2days).
For this reason alone i would not by the Fiat Tomtom.
But the spanner in the works is with the the Blue&Me TomTom cradle, Blue&Me TomTom uses a different type of port to plug in (its not micro-usb like every other tomtom ive used.) its something else, so the cradle is equiped with this "something else" connector rather than a micro usb.
The Fiat Tomtom is the same Hardware with same connectors as my GO 750T (i saw good pictures of it and the cradle).
Most GO's are the same (650,750,950, LIVE and Traffic) only the 730 Traffic seems different.
So if you could get the Cradle from Fiat you can use any of these in the 500.
Without the "Bonus Fiat Tomtom features" but nice mounted without cables. (about TMC iamnot sure)