2012 A6 Avant gone, 2015 A6 Allroad appears

[ChuckMountain]

Maybe somebody should mention GDPR

Yes likely to get the 2017/2018 or the 2018 maps but probably newer than what they have on at moment.

[A6S]

You probably not missing much with the 2018 maps. I have that at the moment and it still gets my street wrong and a few new roads(couple of years old now) around here not even on it.

[ChuckMountain]

You probably not missing much with the 2018 maps. I have that at the moment and it still gets my street wrong and a few new roads(couple of years old now) around here not even on it.

The maps are always out of date by up to a couple of years but it's worth updating as new roads will eventually make in on there

[KevTrem]

I will update the maps once I'm settled with the car, got the sim card in and moved in so to speak. At the minute I just have it linked to my phone. BTW the phone box is still enabled on my car for the signal booster, I had heard they are to be disabled.
The maps are more up to date than the 2012 RMC I had in my last C7 so happy with them for now.

[ChuckMountain]

I will update the maps once I'm settled with the car, got the sim card in and moved in so to speak. At the minute I just have it linked to my phone. BTW the phone box is still enabled on my car for the signal booster, I had heard they are to be disabled.
The maps are more up to date than the 2012 RMC I had in my last C7 so happy with them for now.

Why are the phone boxes to be disabled?

If you do a full map update for Europe you would need around 10-12GB of data or so. For UK only its around 1GB on your SIM. Hence it's much better to do it on a regular PC and use an SD Card.

[KevTrem]

Something about them picking up signals they are not meant to, so I read earlier in the year.

I have some good sized SD cards, can I use a USB dongle as I have the ports in the armrest? Cheers

[ChuckMountain]

Something about them picking up signals they are not meant to, so I read earlier in the year.

I have some good sized SD cards, can I use a USB dongle as I have the ports in the armrest? Cheers

I can't remember if it gives you the option to choose the USB as a source option as that would have normally been my preference too.

[MFGF]

I will update the maps once I'm settled with the car, got the sim card in and moved in so to speak. At the minute I just have it linked to my phone. BTW the phone box is still enabled on my car for the signal booster, I had heard they are to be disabled.
The maps are more up to date than the 2012 RMC I had in my last C7 so happy with them for now.

I think you only get free map updates for three years. If your car is a 2015, it may already have gone beyond the window for downloading updates

[ChuckMountain]

I think you only get free map updates for three years. If your car is a 2015, it may already have gone beyond the window for downloading updates

No you can always re download the last applicable update. (You could prior to the beta site update)

[A6S]

Something about them picking up signals they are not meant to, so I read earlier in the year.

I have some good sized SD cards, can I use a USB dongle as I have the ports in the armrest? Cheers

You can use a usb hard drive or memory stick to update maps. If I remember right mine didn’t allow this originally so had to be a sdcard so one of the updates gives it the usb ability.