PDB33
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I booked mine in for MCU 2 retrofit asking if FM will be lost and if 5Ghz WiFi would be enabled and got this response:
The MCU upgrade costs £2,400. You will loose FM / DAB - The retrofit for this is currently not available but should be at some point in Q4. Please let us know if you wish to proceed or hold off until the radio can be updated too
Thanks
Tesla
I questioned the loss of DAB but didn’t get an answers. I asked if I got it done now would it cost more to get FM/DAB in the future and as expected they said yes so i cancelled for now and will wait until FM/DAB is available. I could live without FM but not DAB but really don’t believe we would lose DAB???
My understanding from posts elsewhere is that DAB will be lost because the MCU1 tuner provides analogue output to MCU1, whereas MCU2 vehicles have a tuner with digital output (twisted pair Ethernet). MCU2 is not able to take analogue tuner output, hence all radio is lost in the upgrade from MCU1 to MCU2 unless the tuner is also upgraded. DAB is radio (BBC stations in UK are on frequency block 12B (225.648 MHz, according to Wikipedia).
Internet radio may still be available via Tunein but I am not clear about station availability and quality. Internet radio on mobile phone via Bluetooth should also work but changing stations on the move would be problematic.