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Old Oct 18, 2017 | 11:25 AM
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Traffic disappearing

The traffic flow has been gradually disappearing over the last week or so until yesterday when it was totally gone. I have the Traffic icon showing in bottom left.
Live in SF Bay area. It seemed to start happening coincident with all the fires in the North Bay, but I don't see how it could be related. There has not been a cell problem or internet issue other than in the specific fire areas.
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Old Oct 18, 2017 | 12:22 PM
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I read somewhere that the Traffic data is broken in most of these Acura cars.
They use traffic data from SirusXM, which is a subscription based service.
I think we get for free the first 3 years of ownership, but it won't work after that without a SirusXM subscription.
Why didn't they use the FREE HDRadio Traffic data?
I never use Traffic info on OEM system anyways. Google Maps is 1000% better and more accurate.
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Old Oct 18, 2017 | 12:32 PM
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They stopped using XM for traffic quite a while back. Its now through a cellular based service.
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Old Oct 18, 2017 | 12:50 PM
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now I'm not sure if it is cellular. Someone had posted a link to the service and it said cell-based. But their are some info on it being HD Radio based.
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Old Oct 18, 2017 | 01:03 PM
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I noticed that too, traffic icon is missing and sometimes just appear with no reason.
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Old Oct 20, 2017 | 09:17 PM
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my traffic icon never disappeared
the day after traffic totally disappeared, it was 100% on and has been since. Go figure.
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Old Nov 6, 2017 | 01:23 PM
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I'm also in the SF Bay Area and experiencing the same. Started occurring around the time of your post. Has gotten worse since. It used to re-establish connection if the car started and the traffic icon was not present. Now, I go an entire morning commute with no traffic info. I'm in a TLX.
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Old Nov 6, 2017 | 01:40 PM
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I have not had any problems lately which seems to point to a car problem rather than network problem.
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Old Dec 11, 2017 | 01:06 PM
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we are in Sacramento and it has been hit and miss a lot lately. One day I hit the Acura Link button to test it and about 5 seconds after the test call the traffic came back up.
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Old Jan 25, 2018 | 01:50 PM
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I saw the first traffic icon since May last week. But alas it is crappy again and no incidents ever show. I hate to say this but AcuraLink is dropping the ball on this.
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