Does the C43 , pre FL or FL have fake interior speaker engine noise?
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I couldn’t find the correct sound fuse on my 2019, but I decided I was going to rid of the car anyway, so I didn’t pursue it further. I think the 2019 is different from both pre-facelfit models and the 2020 onward.
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2021 E450, 2020 C43, 2015 C300, 2007 C280
Success with fuse #473
Fuses related to Sound System
Location of Sound System fuses[/QUOTE]
I've been dying to get rid of the Rice-Krispies Snap-Crackle-and-Pop noises of a modern, fuel-injected car imitating the defects of a carbureted engine. I immediately turned the PE itself off and have tried "Slippery" Dynamic Select. Still, the car always sounded like a rear-engine car! (My first car was a 1961 Chevrolet Corvair, a rear-engine car, the original "Unsafe at Any Speed" model.)
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I have a 2020 C43, and this diagram is not from my car, either. But the #473 fuse matches, Be sure to check the fuse diagram in your own car! It is folded small and tucked into the edge of the under-trunk-floor fuse box.
Now, the exhaust sound is just loud, not super-loud. More important, it sounds natural, because it is all coming from outside the car. Also, the sound has a deeper tone, less treble sounds. The Snap-Crackle-and-Pop noises are unchanged (subject to the Dynamic Mode selected), but now they sound like they too are from outside the car. Most important, I will not feel embarrassed, if I give some people from my church a ride. The rear seats must have been hell before. So I can now live with the exhaust. But I am outraged that I had to do this.
A valet driver for my local dealer told me that the AMG exhausts "used to be much louder. Whenever they started an AMG, people would say, 'There goes an AMG.'" Well, noise regulations must have gotten to M-B, but the the boy-racers still wanted their sound effects. So M-B now keeps much of the sound inside the car!
