Uncle Peppi

Hey guys - I have a 2006 CLK 350 with navigation but it does not have ipod/bluetooth. According to the local dealer, it would cost $1800 to add factor bluetooth/ipod, which seems a bit excessive.

I have done some superficial research and have come across a few aftermarket options, including Mobridge, Denison Gateway,and Nav-TV.

Mobridge seems to come highly recommended, but looking at the videos it seems to scroll through the ipod one artist/song at a time. That seems very cumbersome to me.

Denison Gateway has the same issue.

Nav-TV looks fantastic from an interface perspective and even plays video! Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbthWTy-DFU

I am sort of not sure which direction I should go. What do you guys think? Are there other options? Which one is best? Would Nav-TV work on my vehicle? Honestly, it seems like the best one out of the three, but haven't heard many reviews.

Any help would be much appreciated.

jbondox

mobridge, the navtv vehicle dock is going to set you way back, plus I dont think they have it working on your comand.

Uncle Peppi

thanks, man. do you have the mobridge unit? if so, what do you think of it? i didn't realize the nav-tv was so expensive. incartronics quoted me something like $25, but said it was very "buggy".

Cartronics

We are the North AMerican distributor of the mObridge.

http://cartronics.com/mObridge.html

Richard

Theres also this. Its built in USA, and there are USA distributors also.

http://www.comandonline.co.uk/mcar_umi.html

Fantastic sound quality as its a fully digital path from the iPod to your head unit (and if you have Harmon Kardon, all the way to the amp) - most iPod interfaces use the analogue output of the iPod.

Richard

Cartronics

Inside North America it has a different product name. We have it available as well. However, all of our products put the iPod functions on the fiber bus digitally. None of them are analog.

jbondox

Really? The last 6 I bought were not from you! Maybe you confused yourself... are and we're one of the...

JonMBZ

I agree when I worked at a dealer that sold them I never purchased them from cartronix.

Richard

Thanks for the info.

Just for clarity (because I think we are saying the same thing): -

It wasn't the iPod onto the fibre bus digitally (which it has to do because MOST is digital only), but it was the link between the iPod and the control unit I was talking about - i.e whether the digital or the analogue output of the iPod was taken into the device and then how it was encoded and put digitally onto the MOST.

Of course with the Mercedes iPod kit, it is analogue. I don't know whether the Media Interface in later cars is fully digitial or the Dension GW500. mCar is, and I beleive you are saying that mObridge is digital all the way from the iPod, via USB audio to mObridge , a big of sound processing and onto the MOST bus.

Is Cartronics USA and Cartronics who distribute mObridge in the UK the same ?

Thanks
Richard

Cartronics

Cartronics.com is not related to Cartronics UK. However, we both offer and support similar products it seems.... just opposite sides of the pond