coconutpolito

How much will Steve charge for this installation and does anyone know when he'll be in So. Cal

Saprissa

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PRHeloPilot

Carlos....Carlos...Carlos....I'M DIZZY !!!!

coconutpolito

And I'm DONE!!!! Did the installation today, everything went as planned. Easy install in my opinion. Also, why do the same people keep giving this answer to peoples questions: Search the forum

DiamondNoir2K5

hey coconut, congratulations!

i was able to remove the door sill on my own, as well as the side panel on the glove compartment, but have searched the forum and cannot figure out how to remove the a-pillar covering under the glove compartment. how did you do it?

coconutpolito

If you look in the middle of the A Pillar there should be a small somewhat circular removable cover. Pop that out and remove the screw that's in it. Then carefully remove the pillar by pulling it towards you (not sideways). If you look at the door sill you see that it is held by some inserts. It's the same thing on the pillar. There are two of them that are being covered by the rubber going along the edge. Hope this helps.

DiamondNoir2K5

hi coconut, yes it does help, thanks. when you say towards me and not sideways, do you mean pull along the same axis as the screw that was holding it in place? That is, towards the left side of the car?

nlpamg

OMG people are actually helping instead of blindly telling people to do a search! What has happened to mbworld? I couldn't find **** doing the search either, that's why I essentially just gave up and asked Steve... (I tried searching "how to door panel" "how to remove door sill" etc., and didn't come up with anything worthwhile.)

If it's as easy as everyone says, I may as well just do it myself instead of waiting for Steve. Diamond, how did you remove the sill and the thing by the glovebox? Did you need any tools, or did they pull right off? Thanks!

DiamondNoir2K5

nlpamg, whenever i see your name i say "napalm" in my head. what does nlp stand for (assuming the latter half is amg, but maybe it isn't?)

anyway, i tried searching for remove door sill, and found a thread on it. but i had actually figured out how to remove it before reading the thread.

the door sill has plastic tabs inside of it that are held by metal clips attached to the frame. the clips have little sharp metal "teeth" that point downwards, "biting" into the plastic tabs. there might be some more elegant way, but you can remove the door sill just by starting from the front (the end of the sill towards the front of the car) and pulling up hard. once you loosen enough of it, you can pivot it upwards (the pivot point is in the fat end at the rear of the sill) and completely out.

now note that yanking it out brute force like this will cause the little clip teeth to dig a small groove into the plastic tab. when i replaced the door sill, i noticed that it was ever so slightly less snug than it was originally. but it isn't really noticeable. i suppose if it ever became too loose (if you repeatedly removed it a lot), you could always buy a new sill which i would not imagine to be too expensive.

as for the side panel on the glove compartment, again, starting from the front of the glove compartment, which is actually the point of the panel that is furthest towards the back of the car, i just pulled sideways (toward the right of the car), and it came loose.

hope this helps.

i still need to try removing the a-pillar cover. once i've successfully done that and found the pre-wired aux connector, i'll probably go ahead and order the part from my dealer, and install it shortly thereafter.

nlpamg

Cool, thanks Diamond! nlp is actually my initials backwards. This screenname is so ancient. I first decided to do the screenname when I was pretty young and got my C280 Sport with AMG rims and I loved AMG vehicles, so I thought, hey, most people won't know that the AMG stands for anyways (most people that don't come to this forum anyways). And yeah, napalm is a pretty common confusion about this too...

Thanks so much for the info and help! I'll probably give this a try, let us know if you got the A-pillar out too!

Also, I'm thinking that if I remove the A-pillar first (with the screw), then I can somehow pry the "teeth" from the sill in a less than brute force manner and still somehow keep the original snuggness. What do you guys think?

Thanks!

DiamondNoir2K5

the only problem with that strategy is that the door sill lays over the edge of the a-pillar cover. so logically, you would want to remove the door sill first. removing the a-pillar cover first really wouldn't help much. in fact, you might not be able to remove it at all with the door sill still clamping down on the right edge of it.

CarlosMC

Hi, only one anotation, i know that this forum is readed by a lot of people in europe, so, for them, the code of the cable is 210 440 50 05

Thanks to steve for the info.

Tomorrow i will get it and mount

Saprissa

glad it all worked out. There's a reason why Steve is called the EURO PARTS PIMP !

PRHeloPilot

I told you to ask him for his help (back in Post #16, a day and a half ago)

I don't know him but people here seem to like him and he sounds like he knows very much about these cars.

PRHeloPilot

Yes, I guess he does know alot and I'm glad he did help out.

coconutpolito

When removing the pillar, gently tug on it (towards the back of the car).

nlpamg

what kind of screw is that on the A-pillar? None of my screwdrivers will take it out, and I don't want to strip the thread. Should I buy a "hex driver" or something? Thanks!

DiamondNoir2K5

I haven't looked, but I'll bet you anything it's a torx screw.

nlpamg

Damn, if it's a torx screw, then I have to get an exact driver, I only have a T6... (for phones)

DiamondNoir2K5

Just wait until tomorrow then. I'm assuming you don't yet have the AUX IN part anyway.

Any hardware store will have the torx driver you need.

nlpamg

I actually have the aux in part. I had my dealer order it on friday, and it came in yesterday. I wanted to try to install it tonight. Oh well... Thanks.

Saprissa

dude, run to WalMart and grab some STANLEY torx driver sets, they come in a pack of 4 or 6, all different sizes... less than $10. that is if the WalMart around you is open 24 hrs.

All night install parties are always fun !!!

Saprissa

AMG

Aufrecht
Melcher
Großaspach


AMG founders:
- Hans Werner Aufrecht
- Eberhard Melcher

in Großaspach, Germany

nlpamg

lol, thanks for the tip, too bad there's no 24 hour walmart's close to me. the only ones I know of are a couple hours away in Palmdale/Lancaster.

so they're probably torx drivers right? is there a difference between torx and hex drivers? or am I just confused?

DiamondNoir2K5

torx is definitely different from hex.

hex is literally a hexagon shape. usually you'll find these on Ikea furniture. torx is more like a star pattern. hex is also known as allen wrenches, and usually come in L shapes. torx drivers however usually come looking like regular screwdrivers (except the shape of the head is obviously different.