I enjoy following @verygreen both on here and on Twitter, because I like getting a sense for just how deep the rabbit hole can go as far as these cars of ours are concerned. Being that I have an S with AP2.0 (and thus MCU1), I absolutely love seeing his stories about performing his various retrofits, whether it be upgrading his AP2.5 hardware to AP3 or upgrading his MCU1 hardware to MCU2. So my question is, what significant retrofits can actually be performed on our cars?
MCU1 to MCU2: Yes. Difficulty seems trivial, with the caveat that you need root on at least the MCU1, probably also the MCU2.
AP2.5 to AP3.0: Yes. Difficulty seems trivial with no additional caveats required.
AP2.0 to AP3.0: Sort of (citation needed). I seem to recall seeing it mentioned that the computer swap is trivial, but the code sees the RCCC AP2.0 cameras and bails out, leaving things non-functional. I'd love it if someone could provide a source for this, assuming I'm not actually crazy and just imagining things.
RCCC (AP2.0) cameras to RCCB (AP2.5+) cameras: I don't know that I've seen reports of anyone who has actually done this, so if you have a source please share it with the rest of the class! Is it possible to just find a donor AP2.5+ vehicle and move the cameras straight over to the AP2.0 vehicle and have everything continue to function properly? I'm guessing this retrofit would require root because there's probably a config setting somewhere that stores the color filter values.
Bosch (AP2.0) radar to Continental (AP2.5+) radar: I know this is probably one of the bigger retrofits, due to the change of the wiring harness. Beyond that though, I have no idea what this would even look like. Is it possible? Is it even needed?
So, does anyone have any experience with the pieces that I'm missing? Are there any other retrofits that I'm not thinking of that might be relevant to the discussion?
MCU1 to MCU2: Yes. Difficulty seems trivial, with the caveat that you need root on at least the MCU1, probably also the MCU2.
AP2.5 to AP3.0: Yes. Difficulty seems trivial with no additional caveats required.
AP2.0 to AP3.0: Sort of (citation needed). I seem to recall seeing it mentioned that the computer swap is trivial, but the code sees the RCCC AP2.0 cameras and bails out, leaving things non-functional. I'd love it if someone could provide a source for this, assuming I'm not actually crazy and just imagining things.
RCCC (AP2.0) cameras to RCCB (AP2.5+) cameras: I don't know that I've seen reports of anyone who has actually done this, so if you have a source please share it with the rest of the class! Is it possible to just find a donor AP2.5+ vehicle and move the cameras straight over to the AP2.0 vehicle and have everything continue to function properly? I'm guessing this retrofit would require root because there's probably a config setting somewhere that stores the color filter values.
Bosch (AP2.0) radar to Continental (AP2.5+) radar: I know this is probably one of the bigger retrofits, due to the change of the wiring harness. Beyond that though, I have no idea what this would even look like. Is it possible? Is it even needed?
So, does anyone have any experience with the pieces that I'm missing? Are there any other retrofits that I'm not thinking of that might be relevant to the discussion?
