BOSCH RCD-510 Vs Delphi RCD-510

[Bambazonke]

Six torx screws in and out and 15 mins later unit installed! easiest and quickest installation I have ever done. radio does not work at moment as I need an antenna adapter which I have ordered off a seller on eBay for $12 inclusive of postage from Poland where the oem part (Fakra) dealer here wants $50! Will report back on this issue in due course.

Cd shuttle and SD card media work well and all controls on steering wheel and display in the instrument cluster work perfectly as I feared I would have had the visit the local dealer for recoding which thankfully is not the case $350 so far and well spent in my opinion compared to what I had installed previously

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Fakra part I think is made in Poland along with the std alloys that we're fitted to the car!

[rpstry]

My experience was similar installing mine into the GT pretty straight forward - just be patient with delicate trim pieces. MDI + 729B Skoda Bluetooth are waiting to be installed on mine also.

[Bambazonke]

Good to hear rpstry I gave the BT & MDI the flick and opted for an OEM RVC which has in my opinion made better use of the radio's graphic screen capability. I hardly use the cd shuttle and have copied all my music onto a number of SD cards and use it in the same manner as an iPod with no problems I have a Garmin gps that has Bluetooth and an inbuilt fm transmitter that takes care of the hands free issue

[obersturm]

The difference between the 2 is essentially in the radio spec where the Delphi unit has no RDS or has the option to have DAB or DAB+. The Bosch unit is made in Portugal and is considered to have a superior screen from what I have read on several VW forums.

I have just purchased a second hand Bosch unit off ebay for $300 + postage which is about the average price i have seen from my research. The Delphi units which I understand are made exclusively for VW Chinese market appear to be cheaper ($225-$275) when purchased from suppliers on ebay ex china. All these units come with no original VW packaging as I suspect VW does not sanction the sale of these units as an accessory outside China. User's Manuals are only avaliable in pdf format as I suspect the hardcopy manuals are all in Chinese.

I will be installing my unit into my 2008 Tiguan this weekend that currently has the older RCD300 generation radio installed.

Hi there,

I know it has been a while. But I was wondering how you wnt with installing the other radio in the Tiguan, please?

Thanks and best regards