A question for people doing the MCU2 upgrade. If you have a AP 2.5 car with enhanced AP but not full self driving and do the MCU2 upgrade for $1500 are they putting in the HW3 full self driving computer or do you have to purchase full self driving to get the new computer. I get I would still have enhanced AP and not full self driving. To me the upgrade may be worth it for the new self driving computer.
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To MCU2 or not to MCU2?
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Someone said they are no longer bundling. Which is why they dropped the price
fcastrillo86
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I would be surprised if the exclusion of the FSD computer is the reason for the MCU2 price drop. I went into Service a month ago for some unrelated stuff (side mirror and charge port issues), and then they added the FSD computer install to my invoice without me asking for it. FWIW, i bought my car with the FSD feature already added.
Thats why I say if true it could be a sticky situation. They were charging people that paid for FSD and wanted MCU2 for HW3. Trying to minimize the cost of the promise of HW3 as much as possible
Dreamontom99
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Who did you email this too? I want to send a similar email to someone in management! Maybe if enough of us do it, something will happen. Anyone have any suggestions here?
dark cloud
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beatle
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So, when I got in my car today it was a clean slate. Everything wiped. Driver profiles, vehicle name and settings, everything. Now...they did tell me in the afternoon it wasn’t going to be done until tomorrow, to which I reminded them tomorrow I’ve leaving town for 5 days on a road trip (in my car or their loaner). They said they’d have it done by 6:00, and that’s exactly when I got there. Maybe there was a restore step they’d have done if it had more time.
Everything is faster and better, but the camera is noticeably darker (as expected). Being able to use the browser is kind of nice, but it’s still fairly slow on most websites. Caraoke is fun.
Everything is faster and better, but the camera is noticeably darker (as expected). Being able to use the browser is kind of nice, but it’s still fairly slow on most websites. Caraoke is fun.
dark cloud
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Some are trying to figure it out: read this page How is your rear camera after MCU1 to MCU2 upgade (dark?)
fcastrillo86
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Just got my car back from the MCU2 upgrade. Everything feels and works much better than MCU1 (smoothness and framerate improvements, usable browser, FSD visualizations, etc.). Bonus: I got my car uncorked 
If the $2500 price was due to the HW3 bundling, I'd say that all owners that paid that price who upgraded their AP1 cars have a solid refund case on their hands.
Owner of p90d with HW1. Completed upgrade today. Was swayed by the price drop and mostly positive YT vids also there is no way the MCU3 will be retro fitted. I can't say I'm impressed with the upgrade, took about 30 hours to do. Profiles all still saved, audio quality seems fine / same (premium audio). Browser is usable, games are fun but apart from that, I think I should have done the recall eMMC and spent the money on a tablet, this would offer much more usability than locked Tesla eco system. Without losing radio or camera that works at night... Fingers crossed the future upgrades change my mind. At least the free connectivity has some value now.
When I had HW2 and MCU1, I was totally fine. Its when I went to HW3 (with the FSD upgrade) that the combo of HW3 and MCU1 did not interact well at ALL, for me. (frozen screens, reboots, loading errors with streaming services, laggy navigation, voice commands were almost useless, etc. ) As soon as I went to MCU2, like a new car.
Thanks for this feedback.
With my AP1 car, I'm tempted, but then when I ready your feeling on the browser, not so much. It is basically the only app not working that I miss (TeslaWaze, opening web pages from the Navigation's POI)
Essentially, my MCU1/AP1 works quite ok. Slow but it works: Spotify, TuneIn works flawless, as well as the other apps (Nav, Voice...).
I might indeed keep the money and buy a new tablet.
BrokerDon
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I’m getting mcu2 + radio today in my March 2017 S100D.
Don’t want to risk more black screens and have lots of road trips in the near future. Otherwise I’d probably wait and see.
it does look to me like they are optimizing software. The web browser again comes up in my mcu1. I bet they double down on software fixes along with the eMMC replacement to get this behind them.
Don’t want to risk more black screens and have lots of road trips in the near future. Otherwise I’d probably wait and see.
it does look to me like they are optimizing software. The web browser again comes up in my mcu1. I bet they double down on software fixes along with the eMMC replacement to get this behind them.
dark cloud
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hey you’re right! Just tried the browser for the first time in about 6 months, and it works! For sure it didn’t work this well immediately after the new 64 bit eMMC.
I can confirm nothing is fixed. Im on the latest update. I went out to the car and the browser worked, color me shocked, so i went to a few different sites. Then it crashed and white screened.
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