I have a Passat fitted with a Gamma radio which is doing my head in. How do I turn the damn traffic reports off? It seems to find something to interupt my cd every 5 minutes! It looks like this if that helps.

RDS button, I'm fairly sure.

RDS is Radio Data System – tells you the station name

I would try pressing and holding the TIM button

or press and hold tp – you see tp is displayed on your screen… you prob don't want that showing

What cp said.

only way i've found is to press TP then tune it to a frequency with no radio station. There doesn't seem to be the option to turn it off, not sure if i've tried holding the TP button down but IIRC that just sets the TP volume

Hold on that might be the same as the standard radio in my Bora, I'll nip and get the manual when I get a second.

the manual doesn't help

it's a german radio, they wouldn't want to turn the traffic info off as there's never any traffic to report

Simply press the FM 1-2 button to switch to FM mode.

TP mode is FM with traffic announcemts switched on. This is distinct to the TA indicator on the Gamma display that shows that the current station (in FM or TP mode) is capable of broadcasting traffic announcements.

Manual says " Is is possible to switch off the traffic-announcements mode permanently by exiting TP mode" what ever that means.

oh and……

If you leave the TA on when you turn the engine off, it'll record travel info broadcasts for 2hours. When you get back to the car you can then play them back!

only if you press the TIM button

*bookmarks page*

I regularly bang it with my knee and spend weeks cursing that "ping" followed by local tin-pot radio DJs droning on about "sheer weight of traffic".

I will have a fiddle with it when I get home and report back.

I had that in my Polo – seem to recall TIM was for telling it to record traffic, and TP was for listening to them.

press and hold tp – you see tp is displayed on your screen… you prob don't want that showing

sounds about right – but then press FM1-2 after to go back to normal fm mode

TP = Traffic Protocol

Press and hold while on an FM channel until TP dissapears from display

Sorted! Thanks collective wisdom.

AWWWW COME ON

at least tell us how 😆

I joined this forum just to answer the question as the last person in the thread hadn't spilled the beans and I understand just how frustrating this problem is after sitting in my car with a torch late at night. Loads on the internet about this if yo Google it.

Anyway, the answer is very straightforward. Just press the FM 1/2 button and the large 'TP' display symbol should change to 'FM 1'. This is like the picture above.

This is not to be confused with the smaller TP symbol on the display (just above in the picture). This is always present when the transport programme signal is being received.