CurYousGee

Hey guys, my installer told me for some reason my speed sensor wire is missing....i know that mlbenz and danny (mmgrad) said it was there....so the installer is ordering a can bus adaptor? is it possible that some CLKs dont have the speed sensor wire and need the can bus adaptor? i have a 2000 clk430 with the k3 package i think ( sunshade, cd changer, bose system)

steve if ur reading this...does it sound right..? or anyone that has put in a NAV?

Thanks in advance

RED-CLK

Tell your installer to look for the green wire (w/ black tracer) in the passenger side lower kick panel area, it's there, I suspect the installer doesn't know exactly what he is looking for and is taking the easy way out.

scorchie

It's there. There are threads posted here with PICTURES so you may want to search for that.

-s-

captret

Read this thread:

https://mbworld.org/forums/clk-class-w208/100417-comand-nav-experts.html

CurYousGee

thanks captret....i actually read that earlier today after your post and did a search of thing you posted and came across that thread you wrote...thanks ....i will check it out tonight to see if its there......then my eclipse nav will be complete!!!!!!!

thanks to everyone

MBenzNL

a canbus adapter doesn't get you speedpulse either...

greetingz,

mmgrad

Bro, if you are having that much trouble finding it... let me know, I can offer my assistance in helping you find it...

captret

Don't thank me...Thank MBenzNL (Steve)....He made my install a no-brainer.

Hope all works out well!

CurYousGee

thanks danny, steve, and captret....i will take it in tomorrow with the pictures and hopefully it will be finished...i will keep ya posted...thanks for all the help!

CurYousGee

Bad news...went to the shopt to day...had them open up the passenger side kick panel, and no dice....could not find the green/black speed sensor wire....I printed out the picture and the installer and I went hunting for it....and we didnt find it...all the connectors were different colors too?

captret

"Cur"

Look down in the rocker panel...I couldn't find mine either at first,( I started cursing my head off)...it wasn't ganged together with the other connectors and was buried. Again it's a blue 8 wire connector.

Good Luck

CurYousGee

hey captret....i will ask the installers again on monday...cuz it definitely wasnt with the gang of connectors.....didnt even see the green/black wire....i will have them double check...i was looking tooo....we'll try again

CurYousGee

UPDATE:

Heres an update, apparently they didnt find the allusive speed sensor wire and ended up putting in a CAN BUS adaptor. Bottom line I guess is that it now works fine. oh well....


George

mmgrad

so how much more was it for the adapter?

Man... u shoulda took my offer to help you look for it... EVERY car has one...

MBenzNL

...not just ONE...but many...hard to not see a single VSS wire...

greetingz,

CurYousGee

thanks you guys...yeah danny...i should have...but i was a lil impatient...the canbus was like $200.....sucks huh

mmgrad

damn... i think your installer screwed u royally... either that, or they didn't know what they were doing...

especially after you told me they screwed up on the speaker output...

i did the install myself, and i didn't have any problems whatsoever...

CurYousGee

danny...i think they didnt know what they were doing....they looked 3 times and said they couldnt find it... i was there one of the time they looked and i didnt see it either....but i guess its a dead issue now.....so the canbus adapter killed the great deal i got on the eclipse ($1600)

sirswift93

I am installing a Pioneer Avic-8200NEX and just got off the phone with support at Crutchfield to help with this wire.

All their literature states it should be in the same loom/plug as the constant power plug (red/blue stripe) but it’s not. And they state it should be green/purple stripe. I have a 2001 w208 CLK 310 convertible with Bose fiber. They also say the accessory wire (pink-green stope should be I. The sam eug but it’s in the plug for the cigarette lighter.

so I am not doubting it’s under the sill plate and green with a black stripe, but why do the Technicle papers state otherwise?

Thanks!

Josh K

Maybe the papers from crutchfield refer to 98-99 CLKs? Starting in 2000 the car got a multifunction display and other can-bus changes and perhaps their literature only takes the older model into account.

sirswift93

They checked 98-99 and 00-01 since my car was mfg in 08/00. Nothing on either.

SF2LA

@sirswift93 were you able to find it on your car eventually? i'm tryna find for w209 clk

sirswift93

no, never able to find it.