How come we can't use the steering wheel buttons to cycle through our preset radio stations for the 05 model? The steer wheel buttons only goes to the next radio station that it can get. Any response would be greatly appreciated.

 

Dunno if this had changed with the '05s, but on the older models (mine is '02) there was a setting in the config menu that you could switch between seek and memory modes. Poke around there and see if you can find it.

 

AAAAaaaahhh!

-s-

 

I've checked the manual and it didnt state anything--any other 05 owners have the same problems or want to chime in?

 

i have the same problem i looked through all the settings and cannot find any. do you have the audio package?

 

u will have to enter the setting first.. then you can choose between.. searching or memory

hope this helps,

mike

 

It is in the MFD settings, at least in the 2003. It was set from the factory to use the seek function and not presets.

 

what do you mean you have to enter the setting first? this is for 05 model btw.

 

I tried today on my '05, even went through the manual trying to figure out how to do it. If anyone could give a step by step process that would be great, it would be much easier to go through the preset tuning via the steering wheel.

Thanks.

 

change it in the MFD. it should be the first option in the convienience option.

 

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I tried it under the convience area, but there is no option. What should it say, or what does it say on yours is the questions.

Thanks for the help.

 

My 03 has it in the convience settings menu. If you are new to using the menu in the IC, it may take a while. It is confusing at times. On mine, I can set the buttons to change to memory presets or just to the next available station.

 

I don;t think the 05 has this option anymore--my service advisor was helping me on it and he couldn't find it as well. What a bummer.

 

I can't believe it's gone. I heard the new w211 also does NOT have this feature.

 

This is a huge disappointment, how much money can this save MB (if any)? I would think spending the time to reprogram the system and remove this option would take more time (read- cost money) then using the same software in the '04's and other previous models.

Huge disappointment.

 

buwahahahaha!! Ya'll got stiffed like I did with my W211!! I cant believe on a 57K car it did NOT offer that feature yet on my 35K 2001 C Class it did, Go figure

 

this is how for my 2002....... im not sure it its the same for the 04 or 05

scroll to the setting menu
press UP arrow (left side button above scroll forward/reverse buttons)
then a new screen that reads
instrument cluster
lighting
vehicle
should appear
use the volume down button (right side of steering wheel) to scroll down and highlight VEHICLE
new screen that reads
AUDIO MODE OPTIONS should appear that reads
station search
memory
use the volume down button to highlight MEMORY.
again... that should work all the w203 models up to 04.... but im not sure for the 05's w/ the new interior (not sure if its the same VDO junk)

-carino

 

for some reason, Benz did away w/ that feature in the 2005 C Class...but they added some other stuff such as automatic summer/winter time change, which is convenient, but who know's why they can't do both.

 

I read somewhere that the sunroof now closes once the rain sensing wipers are activated thru rain. Can someone confirm this. Hey sunman; here is another mod for you if its true.

 

Well, if it is software controlled then it will be hard. I don't think my 03 does this but I have never tried it.

 

So, this must be one of the things MB "simplified". Looks like they have overdone

 

Not enough memory?

 

i dun understand why mb would do this? the steering wheel control is pointless at this point hehe

 

i have the auto time change already thru my COMAND.

 

If it is software controlled, all you have to do is find the controller that is responsible and replace it.

More and more of the stuff in the car moves to controllers on the network telling other devices what to do. For instance, retrofit of active cornering headlights requires replacing the headlights (no kidding) and the headlight height adjustment module. The rest just works, because on CANBUS there is already steering angle sensor (for ESP) and speed signal (for so many other things). So the new module just reads this, does its computations, then tells the headlights where to move.

The whole radio thing sounds like such a simple oversight and everyone says how EASY it would be to fix... but you know, it must not be easy to fix... because it hasn't been fixed yet. Why not? Well, the new radios are all made by Harman Becker (and Siemens in the high-line cars). The older COMANDs were made by Bosch. Sometimes in software development, you get so far down a path that to go back and change something that was "already there" becomes quite difficult and therefore not cost effective... and this may have happened when adapting the new head units to the Mercedes CANBUS interface.

I can provide an example of this. Netscape Communicator 4.x had a really neat feature called "roaming profiles" that means you could go from computer to computer (like desktop at work, laptop, or home computers) and have all your settings and updates, like new bookmarks, etc. follow you to each computer. Then when version 6 came out, it had disappeared. Now as of version 7.1, it still has not appeared. Checking the development information, you'll find that there were some changes to the way underlying functions work, and those change would make the roaming profiles require a complete rewrite to work now. I guess I don't expect most of you Windoze zealots to understand, but it's a reason, and it is how it is.

Will it change? Maybe someday. Any by then, you'll be able to buy a new COMAND from Steve.

-s-