Garmin GTM 25 with Lifetime Traffic
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GTM 25 Receiver acts as an in-vehicle power chargerDisplays current traffic levelsAlerts you to local traffic tie-upsLifetime free subscription to traffic information service
Product Description
Power your nüvi and get lifetime¹ traffic updates all with one cable. With the GTM 25 you’ll receive free lifetime traffic¹ updates from NAVTEQ Traffic, a real-time traffic services provider. No monthly fees or maintenance costs! NAVTEQ Traffic delivers accurate, reliable, lifetime traffic data directly to your compatible navigator. Avoid Traffic Tie-ups
The GTM 25 provides North America traffic information to compatible Garmin GPS navigators. Using this data, your device alerts you to local traffic tie-ups and displays current traffic levels. The receiver also acts as an in-vehicle power charger. Traffic provided by NAVTEQ Traffic. Coverage Area
NAVTEQ Traffic provides real-time traffic conditions for more than 90 metropolitan markets in North America, including Toronto, Canada. View detailed coverage information.
Click to enlarge | - Comprehensive, reliable nationwide coverage
- Accurate traffic flow speeds
- Unplanned incidents such as accidents and stalled vehicles
- Planned incidents such as road construction and closures
- Information about special and sports events and holidays that may affect traffic
Compatible Products
nüvi 205, nüvi 255, nüvi 285WT, nüvi 465T, nüvi 500, nüvi 1200, nüvi 1250, nüvi 1300, nüvi 1350, nüvi 1450, nüvi 1260T, nüvi 1350T, nüvi 1370T, nüvi 1390T, nüvi 1490T, nüvi 205W, nüvi 255W, nüvi 265T, nüvi 265WT, nüvi 275T, nüvi 550
What's in the Box
GTM 25 with lifetime traffic and owner's manual
¹Lifetime traffic extends for the useful life of your Garmin traffic receiver (as long as you own a compatible Garmin GPS) or as long as Garmin receives traffic data from its traffic supplier, whichever is shorter. Traffic content not available for all areas. See www.navteq.com/rdstraffic for traffic coverage areas and www.garmin.com/traffic/fm/navteq.html for program License Agreement containing complete terms and conditions.
Spotlight Customer Reviews:
Summary:
causes serious stability problems with my nuvi
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The traffic information is of limited utility. It does identify some traffic trouble spots but seriously underestimates the delay due to the traffic. The color coded traffic labels on the maps can be useful and it will help my nuvi route me around traffic. But it also misses many traffic jams.
The biggest problem I have with the traffic receiver is that with my nuvi 500 and the latest firmware update (v 5.50) the device is unstable. The nuvi locks up frequently and after a week of 'help' from the Garmin support staff none of their instructions were useful in solving the problem. The have asked me to return the 'device.' When I asked which device, the Nuvi 500 or the traffic receiver, I got no answer.
I'd say based on the limited usefulness of the information from the traffic receiver and the stability problems I have it's not a wise buy. Maybe some other Nuvis will handle it better but with my 500 it's a disaster.
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GTM-25 Time Saver
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This Lifetime Traffic antenna/power cord for the Garmin nuvi-1450 is a great time saver. In the few weeks I have owned this antenna I have saved over 4 hours of commuting time by avoiding accidents and heavily jammed highways. I commute 45 miles one-way each work day, I have avoided some really long delays in just the past week alone to be worth what I paid for this device. A GPS unit without live traffic updates is just a dumb map display; with traffic updates within 15 minutes of the delay I arrive at work in a timely manner and home every evening more relaxed than without the antenna. I will never be without one on any trip ever again.
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A Great addition if your GPS is set up for it.
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Comment:
HELLO AGAIN AMAZON FANS EVERYWHERE!!!!
So, a few weeks ago, my wife gets into her car, looks around for the GPS'S mount and cord only to find that they are not there; long sory short - some low life got into her car, took the bean bag mount, the power cord, and a cassette adapter for her mp3 player.
Replacing the mount and adapter is not too hard on the wallet; and we were able to quickly pick up a 12 volt power cord with a mini USB end from R+dio Sh+ck to hold us over for the GPS (hated it btw, the GPS detects it as being hooked to a pc and only after a minute or two finally displays the maps).
We got an idea what the cost of the cord alone was going to be a year or so ago when researching the GPS (model 265Wt) and were not looking forward to shelling out well over $100 for a new one. So it was a pleasant surprise to find the cord here at a decent discount.
Mind you, there was never a thought in our minds to just skip the more expensive power cord for a cheaper non traffic version; we like this cord a whole lot.
We ordered the cord from AMAZON, it came very quickly, was gratefully received, and already has been put to use.
Doing research, before we bought our GPS with the free traffic option, I read numerous reviews, here and elsewhere, complaining primarily about two things:
- The traffic service is Ad supported
- The coverage is not in every area.
On the first point (to the spoiled little anarchists out there) I would like to mention a couple of things some folks may have encountered: Broadcast TV & Broadcast Radio. The last time I checked these 'Free' entities used commercials to pay for themselves. Not only that they do it in a VERY ANNOYING AND OFTEN LOUD BLARING WAY.
Not so with the ads I have seen on the GPS; in fact it has never been more than a little banner that pops up for a very short while then goes away again. Unlike a radio ad that you are basically forced to sit through before you can resume listing to the broadcast, or a TV ad that takes up the whole screen and again forces you to sit through it, the traffic banner does not take up more than maybe 1/4 inch of the screen, the maps are still there for you to see, the routing is not interrupted & no one is yelling at you to buy their junk. If that is too intrusive for you then either pay extra for a ad free traffic service or use your cell phone.
Which brings me to the second gripe people have: coverage area.
Do you condemn a cell phone manufacturer because their phones dont work in areas where there is no service??
I am old enough to remember TV before cable or satellite where you sometimes only had a few stations available to watch as well as taking long drives and having to scan the dial on the radio to find something to listen to after driving out of a stations broadcast range. Look at us now; there are so many options available to us with satellite radio, mp3 players, etc; you do not have to spend a moment of your life in silence again.
Like TV and Radio, the money goes where the people and demand are. This service is still fairly new and over time, as more and more people use it, the service will expand as well.
Pros and Cons......
Other than the cost of the cord I can not think of any real negatives; and even that is understandable.
As for pros, I really like how it gives you a heads up in advance of possible traffic jams ahead. Our GPS, along with the traffic icon turning from Green to Yellow to Red, even will say "Traffic Ahead".
The GPS then automatically directs us off the route we are on and takes us around the congestion and then back on our original route.
No matter how you slice it, dice it, or mix it - other than the cost of the device itself - the service is free. Although we always have the GPS on when we travel, if I had to pay a subscription fee, I would not use the service; I just do not travel enough in congestion prone areas to warrant the additional cost.
Although coverage is not 100% nation wide, where it works it works well; it has pulled us out of more than one traffic mess.
Extremely easy to use: plug it in and go.
If this cord gets stolen as well we will be back for another.
Have a Magical Day!
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Great When it Works
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Comment:
I travel for a living so this product seemed like a must have for my Nuvi 1450. It arrived from Amazon when expected and simply needed to be plugged in to the GPS to work. The first metro area was Pittsburgh, PA and it worked great. Then Washington, DC. Two trips through DC with a minimum 30 minute delay that the receiver didn't pick up - everything was smooth sailing and the indicater glowed green the entire time. In Cleveland and Toledo, OH it didn't work at all. During a recent trip through Buffalo, NY and several other New England cities it worked perfect. Although there is a bit of a learning curve, if you take the time to read the documentation for the receiver and your GPS you shouldn't have any problems using the new features. I just wish it were more reliable.
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one month later...
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I purchased this to see if it would be worth saving the expense of purchasing a new unit with built-in traffic coverage. It easily lived up to this expectation. It installs easily (just exchange it with the existing power cord) and behaves as expected. Sometimes it takes more than the advertised five minutes to find the traffic information (but it always finds it within 10 minutes of startup). It adds some nifty features that I can play with (when I'm in the co-pilot's seat).
The area coverage provided by the free NAVTEQ-based service is good for the most part. I'm a firm believer in you get what you pay for, so I was pleasantly surprised with the overall coverage on a recent trip to Milwaukee. It displayed accurate traffic delays as far as 200 miles away from metropolitan hubs such as Milwaukee, Chicago, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh.
The lone dink I have with this unit is the coverage south of the DC metropolitan area. It works well North of Springfield, VA (the southern point of the infamous Capital Beltway), but 5 miles further south, there is no traffic coverage? I've only been as far South as Fredicksburg, VA (about 60 miles south of DC) so I don't know what the coverage is like south of Fredericksburg. This coverage hole seems odd since the coverage North of DC extends beyond Frederick, MD which is about 30 miles North of the Capital Beltway. Since I live north of the Beltway this isn't a major problem for me, but if I lived south of the Beltway I would be disappointed with the performance of the unit since there doesn't appear to be any coverage.
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