Command Navigation Install
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Command Navigation Install
Doing a Command install on my 2004 C230 Coupe. I need the adapter harness that would go from the original C connector the C1 and C2 ports of the new Command unit. Source???? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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You can get it HERE. If you haven't, you might also want to read through THIS -- it tells you how everything should mate up, if you want to splice it, or if you want to adapt the connector from a ML class. You just have to add some to the ML connector. It also has a bunch of other good information on the retrofit.
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MW_ATL was a weatlth of information when I did this. I would definitely read up on the links he's provided.
All you really need is an adapter to go from the 'C' connector on the tape deck unit to the 'C1' and 'C2' connectors on the nav unit. Then you also need to add the AUX cable if you want that too.
Here's another option for a cable harness:
http://mbdoctor.com/item-C-CLK-20-Co...trofit-47.html
This is a bit pricey ($150) but includes the AUX cable to the glove box and is spliced together for you all ready. It truly is plug and play, and the guy has some fairly good pics on his site to work with. I would NOT get the antenna from his site - I did and had some issues causing some serious damage to the connector on the comand unit. If you go this way, you leave the original wiring harness alone and lay this new one along side - so you can easily swap back in the original head unit if you ever need/want to.
I'll see if I can find the antenna I got off EBay and post. I believe it was only ~$20. Good luck with it!
All you really need is an adapter to go from the 'C' connector on the tape deck unit to the 'C1' and 'C2' connectors on the nav unit. Then you also need to add the AUX cable if you want that too.
Here's another option for a cable harness:
http://mbdoctor.com/item-C-CLK-20-Co...trofit-47.html
This is a bit pricey ($150) but includes the AUX cable to the glove box and is spliced together for you all ready. It truly is plug and play, and the guy has some fairly good pics on his site to work with. I would NOT get the antenna from his site - I did and had some issues causing some serious damage to the connector on the comand unit. If you go this way, you leave the original wiring harness alone and lay this new one along side - so you can easily swap back in the original head unit if you ever need/want to.
I'll see if I can find the antenna I got off EBay and post. I believe it was only ~$20. Good luck with it!
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Command Install
Thanks for the great info. I think I'll be able to go at it now that I have found how to go from the C connector to the C1 and C2 connectors on the new Command. My only concern is the comment I read that states you must pick up the speed signal. I thought you only had to do this if you were using the W463 Command. I have a W203 Command. Will this be necessary? THANKS AGAIN FOR YOUR HELP.
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Shouldn't be required using a W203 command. Somewhere on my Coupe thread is my write-up as well as one I posted from elsewhere. In addition, I believe mtnman82 wrote up a bit about his (Thanks for posting the mbdoctor link, btw, I couldn't remember it off-hand).
Since your install is in a Coupe you may want to read mine (HERE) somewhere around post 44 -- at the risk of sounding like a broken record -- if you have teleaide in the Coupe, even if it isn't active, then you have the factory GPS antenna already installed, which is what I used with a MB splitter.
I would try to give a bit more relevant information, but I'm up to my eyeballs at work right now and don't have enough time.
Since your install is in a Coupe you may want to read mine (HERE) somewhere around post 44 -- at the risk of sounding like a broken record -- if you have teleaide in the Coupe, even if it isn't active, then you have the factory GPS antenna already installed, which is what I used with a MB splitter.
I would try to give a bit more relevant information, but I'm up to my eyeballs at work right now and don't have enough time.
