Purchasing a Bosch RCD510 check when made

[Pawnii]

What Class is the SD card you're using?
The speed of the SD card might be the issue.
just a thought

[Bambazonke]

Hi Pawnii it is the same card that I had in my first unit which was assembled in 2011 so it's not the card. I am of the opinion it has something to do with the SD card hardware and software in the 2010 unit as even VCDS has picked up the HW & SW values are different. The long coding on the 2011 unit has an extra 2 bits of data or options as well.

Would really be interested if VW are able to do software upgrades via a "boot up" SD card at power on or using their VAS system on the RCD510 similar to what is done on the RNS510 navi units.

[99_FGT]

Hi Pawnii it is the same card that I had in my first unit which was assembled in 2011 so it's not the card. I am of the opinion it has something to do with the SD card hardware and software in the unit as even VCDS has picked up the HW & SW values are different. The long coding on the 2011 unit has an extra 2 bits of data or options as well.

Would really be interested if VW are able to do software upgrades via a SD card at power on or using their VAS system on the RCD510 similar to what is done on the RNS510 navi units.

I have looked into firmware upgrades for the RCD510, and no dice - happy to be corrected on that though!
I used the same SD card in my old man's Skoda - <10 seconds first load, 2-3 seconds (same as the MDI) after that. In my car - 60+ seconds and 20-30 seconds on startup. I hadn't thought (and he won;t let me pull it out to check) his firmware.

Al..

[Bambazonke]

Al..
VCDS will read the SW & HW values of the radio when you do an Autoscan. If your values are 040 for HW and 0167 for SW or less then you have the slow 2010 or earlier unit, the other 2011 unit i have has a HW value of 050 and SW value of 0207. The unit in your fathers Skoda should have similar values to this or higher. Unfortunately VCDS does not read the FD (assembly date).

Just seen someone on eBay buy one of these old Bosch units for $260 when they could have bought a late Bosch 2011 unit for an extra $40 wonder if they will ever notice the difference.