Hmm this might be an investment for next month, this months wage is taken up my DPF removal and stage 2 map, keep an eye on the 19th (next tuesday) ill be doing a quick write up

Shark I presume Ema Jane, on the 19th.

I should be in that area on Tuesday, I may pop in for a mini meet

Shark I presume Ema Jane, on the 19th.

I should be in that area on Tuesday, I may pop in for a mini meet

wish what? Im not that loaded! :( Going to friend and then another friend who mapped it in the first place to get the stage two and DPF mapped out

How old is your car? If it is very old, a Bolero will require a new CANBUS and coding with CANBUS...

Mine is an 06 and I needed one. ( I have a Bolero in mine )

I have a 61 plate Octy with a Bolero, no maxidot. just bog standard spec. I use a TDK 4GB SD card I got from Tesco for less than a tenner and have no problems using that for my music. It is quick and plays 99% of the music loaded (a mix of WMA and MP3). Im assuming its got the latest firmware although I am yet to try a 32GB SD card. I love the system but wish I had bluetooth but the company didnt want to pay the extra 1500 when a headset costs a fiver!

surely the SD card is only as fast as the transfer rate?!

get a "2" and it will be slow as anything.

get a "10" and it will be exceptional.

I have a ultra fast SD (can't think of transfer rate off head - as its in the car) and I have a 16GB card with no problems.

I'm using a class 10 16Gb play.com SDHC card with 14Gb on card very quick no problems

Edited 10 October, 201213 yr by g0bgb

surely the SD card is only as fast as the transfer rate?!

get a "2" and it will be slow as anything.

get a "10" and it will be exceptional.

Is the 2 and 10 only the write rate?

It should not affect read rate so all cards should be as fast as each other for playback.

I don't think the data rate affects it very much when reading audio tracks as even 256kbit/s is well below the most basic card speed, and even FAT access isn't going to be affected.

Of course a fast card could be much quicker to copy all your music onto.

You also can't just rely on the Class system, as you can have varying read speeds within each class.

For example, I know of Class 10s that have a 20Mb/s read speed and others that have 45Mb/s.

But as said, that should largely irrelevant for the size of music files. Seems to me to be more related to the logic/programming used by the Bolero, in reading the structure and displaying the content. I know of a firmware update available for the Bolero that could be applied at dealers and seems to have had good feedback. I've not had mine upgraded though.

I use 16Gb cards with mine and find the browse speed satisfactory. I follow the restructuring approach and use the little Bolero SD card utility that cropped up on here and it works really well