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Yes the NEW 'Blue&Me TomTom 2 Live' is a very different animal to the original Blue&Me TomTom. It now has all the features you could ever want (more or less) including full postcode entry, multi-level congestion colour coding to show level of congestion en-route, local weather etc etc and of course integration with the car on screen. Check out the downloadable user manual PDF for it... it is about 112 pages mind you. http://download.tomtom.com/open/man...refman/Blue_and_Me-TomTom-2-LIVE-RG-en-GB.pdf
I was hoping to give an 'real life' update on the B&Me TomTom 2 Live. I had read about compatibility problems with it across the various models so before I purchased one last week I contacted Fiat UK Accessories to make sure that it would work not only in a 500 but also in a MiTo. Their answer was that it would work with either car as long as it had the 'option 68R' port.
Anyway typical of my luck - it does not work in the early edition '09 MiTo despite Fiat updating the 'system' this morning. Generally I let 'things go' but I have been 'on the case' with a face to face with the warranty man in the Garage where the car was bought, Fiat CS where I left contact details to ring me and then I got a call back from Milan (an English speaking Louise) who took details of the problem. Solution is to replace the B&Me unit in the car (part costs €300+vat) and I gave her the actual part no.
Aside from the unit not talking to the B&Me in the car it's an impressive bit of kit. I have now realised that the reason that they don't charge for the 68R option is that they 'get you' when you buy the unit.
I'm hoping that it will come up trumps for me. I'm not looking for much.