Bambazonke
02-09-2012, 09:03 PM
Hi all
In anticipation of another Tiguan diesel purchase I bought another Bosch RCD 510 off flea bay.
The current Bosch units are all identical in appearance to those being sold in new cars today as to those sold in 2010. The one in my current Tiguan has an FD value of 2011 (assembled in week 20 of 2011) HW value of 050 and SW value of 0207
Apart from the boot up screen and a label that displays the FD HW and SW values which are the assembly date, hardware and software versions respectively within the unit, there appears to be no difference between the two units.
However when I installed this 2010 unit which even has a RVC mustard plug, and has a FD value of 0810 (assembled in the 8th week of 2010) I noticed how incredibly slow it was in accessing mp3 files off the SD card when compared to my 2011 model. I can now relate to those forum members who raised a number of posts on this subject. So my question is there a way to upgrade the software in the unit to speed up the access? If not, I know which unit I will be keeping to go into the new Tiguan.
Secondly anybody intending to purchase one of these units I urge you to check with the seller when it was assembled (no later than mid 2011 to be safe) otherwise you may be better off with the original RCD 310 unit and the MDI module or go the whole hog and upgrade to the RNS 510 navi unit.
Update............
Subsequent to the above i have also discovered that the earlier 2010 model does not display the phonebook list generated by the 9W7 Bluetooth units that VW are now fitting as standard in the MY 12.5 and 13 models. These older models also do not display song names or allow tracks to be controlled from the head unit with audio streaming from an iphone 4 via bluetooth. All the more reason to make sure the unit is no more than a year old when upgrading!
In anticipation of another Tiguan diesel purchase I bought another Bosch RCD 510 off flea bay.
The current Bosch units are all identical in appearance to those being sold in new cars today as to those sold in 2010. The one in my current Tiguan has an FD value of 2011 (assembled in week 20 of 2011) HW value of 050 and SW value of 0207
Apart from the boot up screen and a label that displays the FD HW and SW values which are the assembly date, hardware and software versions respectively within the unit, there appears to be no difference between the two units.
However when I installed this 2010 unit which even has a RVC mustard plug, and has a FD value of 0810 (assembled in the 8th week of 2010) I noticed how incredibly slow it was in accessing mp3 files off the SD card when compared to my 2011 model. I can now relate to those forum members who raised a number of posts on this subject. So my question is there a way to upgrade the software in the unit to speed up the access? If not, I know which unit I will be keeping to go into the new Tiguan.
Secondly anybody intending to purchase one of these units I urge you to check with the seller when it was assembled (no later than mid 2011 to be safe) otherwise you may be better off with the original RCD 310 unit and the MDI module or go the whole hog and upgrade to the RNS 510 navi unit.
Update............
Subsequent to the above i have also discovered that the earlier 2010 model does not display the phonebook list generated by the 9W7 Bluetooth units that VW are now fitting as standard in the MY 12.5 and 13 models. These older models also do not display song names or allow tracks to be controlled from the head unit with audio streaming from an iphone 4 via bluetooth. All the more reason to make sure the unit is no more than a year old when upgrading!