Porsche PCM1 repair

[the_engineer]

Hello!

Anyone know where I can get a Porsche PCM1.0 repaired?

Currently it has locked itself after the battery died whilst I was on holiday over Christmas(!!!) and also the screen no longer illuminates.

I believe it is a Becker unit but as it is quite old now (MY1998) finding spares or replacement units is proving troublesome.

Any help would be much appreciated

[CT2]

Hi

Can help you with the repair on the Porsche PCM1, send it over and I will test and advise for you.

Do you have the code but locked the unit or do you not know the code and has some guesswork entries?

Mark

[the_engineer]

Afternoon

Upon requesting from my local Porsche garage using the VIN number they provided (unbeknown to me at the time) the nav code which I tried without success (& possibly locked the system during my attempts!)

Last week I found an old printed sheet of paper showing the nav code and the stereo code. Putting it in it does nothing but keep cycling back to the input screen for 3 attempts and then locks me out for 60 mins.

So to summarise the current issues are:
- the stereo has apparently locked itself
- the screen or screen backlight is kaput!

Everything else to be discovered when I can see what's going on

I see you're a new member on here and appreciate your reply - where are you based and have you repaired many of these before? What sort of costs am I looking at?

Thanks!!

[drmark]

Have you considered going aftermarket? If yours is double DIN unit (sorry not familiar with PCM1) then lots of great options that come with factory type surround and look OEM but with phone, DAB, nav etc etc. When the screen went on our PCM.2 we replaced with a Panasonic unit - light years ahead and about £300 more than repairing the PCM.2