Porsche PCM3 and PCM3.1 navigation repair
Porsche navigation units are Becker products. What can go wrong with them?
Tomasz Mazurkiewicz is the founder and owner of the OEMatic brand – a workshop specialising in repairs of factory-fitted car radios, navigation systems and amplifiers. For over 15 years he has worked with OEM electronics, combining day-to-day workshop work in Sochaczew with postal servicing for customers across Poland. His published texts are based on real jobs – from identifying faults in audio modules and displays, through CAN bus diagnostics, to restoring security codes and soldering SMD components. He writes the way he speaks to customers: clearly and with an emphasis on what really works. Every article on oematic.pl is based on his own experience gained with factory car electronics.
Porsche navigation units are Becker products. What can go wrong with them?
The first PCM version in Porsche? We repair it effectively 🙂
Does not power up at all, freezes on the start logo, graphics fault, draws extra current in standby mode, no backlighting, CD drive faults..
Porsche Carrera, Cayman, Boxster.. 911, 997, 955, 987.. in these and similar cars we can come across the CDR30 radio in Matsushita / Panasonic version..
Have you entered the code incorrectly 10 times and now it won’t accept the correct code? We have a method for that..
Is a resetting HSRNS navigation system the result of a faulty instrument cluster? Yes, that does happen in Fords..
Repair the display or replace it? See what was done in this case..
Here is a list of possible faults in HSRNS. It’s quite a long one..
In new Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) vehicles, we can come across radios and navigation units marked as VP1 and VP2.
Has the radio been damaged while loading the software? Unfortunately, this is a fairly common problem..
In RNS 510 / RNS 810 models made by Siemens VDO / Continental, one of the common faults is a damaged CAN bus..
Do you have a Clarion QY-5002 radio locked with a “Personal Lock” message after disconnecting the battery? We offer unlocking of the unit or permanent removal of this lock.