Infotainment yea or nay?

[Gt1948]

 

[tranzndance]

If you're asking, I'd say no. Personally, I'm happy with getting the upgrade. Streaming video in a car with Bioweapon Defense Mode could come in handy on a hot smoky day in California.

 

[teasla]

Can this be upgraded with mobile service or do you need to visit a service center? If the latter, I need to wait for at least a year till covid goes away.

 

[bob_p]

The features mentioned are available today only while parked (though if FSD is ever approved, they should be available while the vehicle is in motion with FSD activated).

What also isn't mentioned is that you lose AM/FM/HD/XM radio.

We haven't noticed $2500 of difference between our X with MCU2/FSD and our S with MCU1/FSD.

So unless Tesla adds an option to support FM/HD/XM radio with the infotainment upgrade - we're out.

 

[tranzndance]

Can this be upgraded with mobile service or do you need to visit a service center? If the latter, I need to wait for at least a year till covid goes away.

I needed to have it done at the service center. It was contactless with everyone wearing masks.

 

[tranzndance]

We haven't noticed $2500 of difference between our X with MCU2/FSD and our S with MCU1/FSD.

My husband said if the Model 3 he ordered in 2019 was as slow as my MCU 1, he would have returned it. He had only ever been a passenger in my car. Imagine my pain as a driver. Rebooting the MCU didn't help. We use streaming music in the car, and that performance improved with MCU 2, too.

 

[KerryOH]

Yay! I am very happy with the upgrade.

 

[Gt1948]

Can this be upgraded with mobile service or do you need to visit a service center? If the latter, I need to wait for at least a year till covid goes away.

No

 

[hulk2k17]

Yes from me. I got it done last night and it's absolutely night and day difference in performance for maps, voice recognition, and system response time. Totally worth it in my opinion

 

[MN-MS100D]

I would also vote for the upgrade. My late 2017 MS sufferd from slooooow maps regens and nonfunctional web browser, and many streaming loading errors. Yes, I was miffed at first to pay 2500+tax for something that used to work, but after the check cleared and I had a beer, I realized that the upgrade was more than just a speed increase.

 

[bob_p]

Not sure if this is still an issue. MCU1 used to have problems if the navigation history of past destinations got too long - which caused performance problems for all of the software running on the MCU1. Manually clearing the navigation history fixed the performance problems.

If that issue is still present, that could contribute to the perceived faster performance of the MCU2, because the settings/history are reset when upgrading from MCU1 to MCU2.

At least how we use our 2017 S MCU1/HW3 and 2018 X MCU2/HW3, we haven't noticed any significant performance differences, and because the Infotainment Upgrade primarily provides new functionality only while the vehicle is parked, we won't be upgrading it to MCU2 and then lose our FM/HD/XM radio - which is used during much of our driving.