LA_Pony

Hello,

are there any news on this topic?
There exists a service mode for the shaker system to check the software version and to do some basic test. Does anyone know, if there exist an update for this radio where you can chose the different FM-Mode? (the different is the frequency grid. The US has a 200kHz grid (just the odd) and EU-FM has an grid of 100kHz.).
"Normally" this kind of changes are possible with an software update or inside an engineering mode to change the behaviour.

Is nobody from the Company DELPHI in this forum who could forward this question to the engineers at DELPHI that designed this Shaker?

Thanks a lot,
Richard

FINGT

Any update on this matter ?
I have the same problem now after moving to Europe, the radio finds only odd numbered frequencies.
I fixed this to my BMW by going to Service Menu and changing the area as Europe and now the radio finds all frequencies.
How you can get to Service Menu on Shaker500 ?
Would be worth looking if there is same kind of menu for Shaker as in BMW.

157dB

I have a home tuner for my Pioneer that has a switch
on the rear that goes from 200kHz spacing to 100kHz
channel spacing. It also has a 120V-240V switch. Always
wondered what the Freq. switch was for. An update of the
software version could possably fix the tuning overseas problem.

ctrcbob

Your car must be an American/Canadian Spec car, not a European Spec car, as Euro spec cars would have the Euro Spec radio installed.

This is not only a Shaker 500 problem for use in Europe. It is a problem with just about any "Digita Tuner". Europe has more frequencies for radios than in the US or Canada. Whenever I travel to France, my lease car (not rental, but lease) always picks up stations on both the even tenths and the odd tenths. I always have a problem finding the station I like when I try to retune. (Don't know about the other European Countries, but in France and Italy, when on or near an Autoroute or Autostrada, they have a station that you can pick up throughout the country due to feeder antennas along the road - tune in, in Lyon and keep the same station all the way up to Lille, but go off the road by 15 miles, and you lose that station).
Sometimes I wish we still had the "old fashened" radios that we could tune by hand (analog) and where we could tune not only right on frequency, but also just off frequency.

johnpony

You should do what i do and get a 20gb MP3 player [5000 songs] a FM transmitter and set to an odd frequency press random and have your own radio station.