installing cd changer
installing cd changer
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From: Milton/Westport, MA USA
me: 2015 SL400 & 2015 ML400; wife: 2022 GLC Coupe; daughter: 2017 GLC SUV
search the forum for an hour or two, and you'll eventually find this post from 5 years ago:
http://www.stormpages.com/arialis/mb/changer/index.html
Of course, that's after sifting thru dozens of threads that go nowhere, other than some super member saying that the question has been answered many times. As far as I can tell, the question has been answered with "STFF" many times, and with these instructions maybe once or twice. Ironically, the instructions were posted by a nube on his third post, and he stopped posting shortly thereafter, with 61 posts.
I may have a few more posts, but I'll always be a nube!
http://www.stormpages.com/arialis/mb/changer/index.html
Of course, that's after sifting thru dozens of threads that go nowhere, other than some super member saying that the question has been answered many times. As far as I can tell, the question has been answered with "STFF" many times, and with these instructions maybe once or twice. Ironically, the instructions were posted by a nube on his third post, and he stopped posting shortly thereafter, with 61 posts.
I may have a few more posts, but I'll always be a nube!
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I know you have to dig deep but consider that back in the old days, in 2002, when I was younger, MB's didn't come with CD changers at any price. It was a dealer installed option for over $1,000. So many people would buy ones online for $400 and install it themselves or pay the dealer about $125 to install it. In more modern times, say 2003 and newer, MB started delivering cars with CD changers as a option that most had as it was cheap, $400 option and dealers had a tough time justifying a $1,000 CD changer when the option was only $400.
Basically it's a very simple process. If you have the CD changer and bracket, the CD changer slides in the bracket and it slides in top part of your glove box against the left side and is held in with only one screw on top near the front edge of the glovbox. Now if you want to power on, that's a lot tougher. You have dig deep in the forum and see how to remove the center ac vents and then remove the radio. Behind the radio, in a neat bundle is the power wire for the CD changer, unravel that and feed it to the cutout on the left side of the glove box and plug it into the CD changer on the back. Now that you have power you probably want to play CDs, that's even tougher, you need to find the orange fiber cable buried in your trunk area and figure out how to connect that.
Basically it's a very simple process. If you have the CD changer and bracket, the CD changer slides in the bracket and it slides in top part of your glove box against the left side and is held in with only one screw on top near the front edge of the glovbox. Now if you want to power on, that's a lot tougher. You have dig deep in the forum and see how to remove the center ac vents and then remove the radio. Behind the radio, in a neat bundle is the power wire for the CD changer, unravel that and feed it to the cutout on the left side of the glove box and plug it into the CD changer on the back. Now that you have power you probably want to play CDs, that's even tougher, you need to find the orange fiber cable buried in your trunk area and figure out how to connect that.
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From: Milton/Westport, MA USA
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Carl, let me ask you 2 stupid questions:
1. Do you know what size screw attaches the changer to the glovebox?
2. My friend wants a changer for his 2000 E430 Sport, and doesn't know if it's fiber optic or not. Wouldn't you think that car probably had a changer in it originally, and it probably got removed at some point along the way (he bought it at an auction). I'd bet he could just plug a changer in and go, assuming he gets the right one.
1. Do you know what size screw attaches the changer to the glovebox?
2. My friend wants a changer for his 2000 E430 Sport, and doesn't know if it's fiber optic or not. Wouldn't you think that car probably had a changer in it originally, and it probably got removed at some point along the way (he bought it at an auction). I'd bet he could just plug a changer in and go, assuming he gets the right one.
