Something seems a bit fishy here.

The OP has owned the car, minus the all important (apparently) "traffic data", for three years now and is away to sell it because the car is useless without it?

If not having that feature was such a big issue and rendered the car useless, why keep it for that long?

As a BMW owner, AIUI, the initial subscription for maps and real time traffic comes with the new car and covers the first 3 years. Subsequent years can be purchased through the BMW Connected drive website. My annual map updates and real time traffic info cost £79 per year but on a Mini that’s 3 years old, I updated last week for £30. Don’t know why it’s less than half a BMW update. Clearly the salesman should have covered this as part of the handover, and the OP seems to be throwing the toys out of the pram over the need to spend £89 (£1.70 per week) for a car that probably cost over £60,000! Wait till he needs new front pads and discs, there’ll be no change out of £1500. Been there with a 6 year old X3. Plus The car is not rendered useless. Just use Waze or Google maps!

Yeah, just re-read the OP's post and understand now!.

Doh!

OP seems to be throwing the toys out of the pram over the need to spend £89 (£1.70 per week) for a car that probably cost over £60,000!

That argument goes both ways. A customer spend £60k and they will want another £100 per year. Sure, BMW would have to pay for updating maps and real time traffic data. There are cost for paying for tech staff. However, the same information is used by newer BMW models which are still in production. The same map data is used over multiple car models.

This is the kind of thing which create petty irritation in life and wasting your life on chores and even having to pay to sort out annual subscriptions.

Sure people can use Google, but many of these cars don't have phone mounts etc...

Edited by Warning on 08/11/2023 at 22:47