Started the car up on Saturday at stupid o'clock in the morning and found my radio no longer works.

I get a loud click/pop through the speakers that repeats every fee seconds. I clicked through the menu for bass, treble etc and found that the option for the DSP equaliser is no longer showing up - has my DSP amp finally gocen up the ghost?

It worked fine the day before and the only difference on Saturday morning is that it was bloody cold, not sure if that's relevant though.

It couldn't have picked a better time to crap out on me. Had a 3 hour drive with a baby that will only sleep in the car if there's music playing...

Best start learning some songs then!
:-)

ROFL, cold :)

The last hour or so of the journey was me sat in the back, with Fiona driving what felt far too quickly along country lanes, holding a phone playing music and trying to sing along as best as I could while being thrown around as the junped on the brakes for unexpected blind bends while aslo trying to act as a human sun visor to keep the sun off the little. Not a relaxed end to a journey lol.

I realise the cold is unlikely to have affected it but it's all i could think of that was different to the previous day - wonders if something inside the amp had contracted on the cold and didn't like being warmed up when switched on. More likely to have just been its time to die though.

Cold should not affect it considering it is -35C with the wind chill here and mine works fine. Damp conditions do effect it. Sometimes my Nav screen will go white and I will loose sound in all front speakers. This has happened lots of times but as the car dries out everything returns to normal. If it is the DSP I would just replace the head unit with aftermarket and redo the speaker wiring to suit.

I started gathering the parts to DIY Marty's DSP replacement system. Have everything except the head unit now (and time).

At least your have a decent sat nav system, just take your time cutting the mounting hole, mine all works and I’m thinking about doing the same, I use my phone sat nav as at least you can add a postcode.

Tis such a dilemma!
I love the whole OEM look but the sat nav is more amusing than useful. Orangebean's new CD did help a lot and added postcodes but it still doesn't beat "OK Google, navigate to the nearest Pub" and live traffic info.
The system sounds nice when it's fully working but I can't help wondering what could be done with modern kit. If I had an HSE with the dash cubby I'd stick a tablet in there, no question.

Given the fact that the last time you were navigating on point using yours and the convoy went round in a large circle Morat, I would say that you need modern kit :)

That was just to show off a convoy of beautiful P38s to the locals! :)
(or not)

I did alot of googling trying to find a tablet that would fit perfectly in the sat nav hole. Just when i thought i'd done it, i found a thread on another forum with Marty discussing fitting a touchscreen head unit.

This is the route i went down a couple of months back and it's brilliant. Yes it's no longer factory, but it would only cost a couple of quid to put it back to rights if required. I've now got fully functioning modern touchscreen android with sat nav, radio, wifi, bluetooth and all the other bells and whistles. Just added Alexa voice control so i'm 100% wired for sound.

I use my phone afor sat nav at the moment but I'm going to miss the factory sat nav. It doesn't know about newer roads, the routing can sometimes be a bit iffy and I can't put post codes in etc but it's saved us a couple of times when we've been well and truly lost and had no mobile signal.

The car picked up a GPS signal and got on with the business of navigating us. Not a great sat nav but a wonderful emergency option. I even learned how to put it in map view last month!

You shouldn't need a mobile signal as long as you have GPS turned on. If you're using an Android phone, a lot of them have GPS turned off by default to save battery, then you do need a mobile signal. Go into the settings and turn GPS on.

Only if you have an app capable of offline navigation.

We use Waze and it depends on a data connection. If we take a wrong turn or something else happens while we're in an area of no signal it won't reroute us.

I've tried Waze and didn't rate it much, try Here WeGo, it's an Android version of the one that used to be supplied free with all Nokia phones and allows you to download maps so will work with no signal (but won't give you traffic details obviously). Works every bit as well as my own Garmin sat nav and a lot better than the Renault butchered version of the TomTom software in my works van.

Garmin CoPilot is my Android nav app of choice. Offline maps, frequent map updates, stable, ability to download POI files (useful for LPG stations).
You have to pay money for the app in the first place though.

Google Maps does offline navigation, and is free. I don't think it's ever quite as good on an iPhone because it is a few versions behind Android. At least, that used to be the case.
I use FillLPG for finding gas, also free but Android only. It uses crowdsourced pricing info, ie you can update the prices on your phone and it updates the central database. Most LPG stations have accurate pricing.

Yeah, I've downloaded the Google Map data for offline use for the area where live and where I work but for some reason I don't think Waze uses it even though I'm prrtty sure it piggy backs Google Maps anyway.

The appeal of Waze for us is that it allows us to share routes, locations and arrival times with friends and family when we go places. Free traffic info/avoidance is handy too.

I'll take a look at some of the ones mentioned above though. Always up for trying new things in case they're better (within reason!).