My wife and I each drive Acuras that have what I guess is officially called the “XMNavTraffic” feature. Basically, it shows traffic information in the navigation system which turns out to be remarkably useful sometimes. Unfortunately, for weeks now, neither car has been showing any traffic info (i.e., when you set it to show traffic we’re not seeing any of the green/red coloring you’d normally see).

The XM traffic channel for Seattle seems to be up just fine. When I click on the “Traffic Incidents” option it says there’s no traffic information within 30 miles of my current location. We called our Acura dealer to see if they knew anything and they pointed us to XM radio. We called XM and they said they’d look into it and get back to us within 24 hours. It’s been over two weeks now.

Anyone else seeing the same?

Update (11/16/07):

This is pretty funny (i.e., sad) but it turns out that it wasn’t that the service was down or any other kind of issue. It’s that we weren’t paying for it. :) Turns out that we were on a trial when we first bought the cars but they ran out. We were thinking it was included in the price for the XM radio service but it turns out to not be–it’s a separate $4 a month per car. A bit pricey methinks but we do have it again and it all works again.