ZephyrAMG

WOW! So nice!!! Excellent job from the W204 AMG community!!!

hyperion667

And......hot damn! Looks great man! Hope you can make that dream come true.......you'd have cars in the lot for sure! That looks awesome

Ejbrock

EJbrock

Fantastic job!! The car looks amazing. Thanks for sharing.

INS1GNIA

Such a great writeup, hard work put in and a fantastic job done. Truly looks amazing!

mJstk01

Excellent work and write up!

Wish we had more posts like this!!

Chris The Swede

The things I do for that perfection.....



Since the ECO button is not needed on my car and the function dont even exsist on my car and I also HATE it I thought a AMG button looks way better even if it also dont work....It looks so much better..



All this had to be done to add the last 2 wood trims to the car...









Finaly DONE!!!!

why_not

Hi Chris
First : !! i love you work !!
What is your favorite mod? The comand, the headlight or??..

What do you mean" Finaly Done" ??.. are you not going to add rear seat heating?

Best Regards From Denmark

/kim

Chris The Swede

Finaly done with the wood trim. Not the car.

My favorite is the front facelift and wheels...But the 2016 comand is AWESOME!!!

Seraphim

For the headlamps, how'd you get them to work? I assume programming was involved but what about the wiring? Will the old harness work with the new lamps or do we just need to swap the wire plugs?

Also I would like to personally thank Chris for his help in both this thread AND off thread. I am a complete car noob and literally bombarded him with questions and ordered parts from him before I started my retrofits. I am currently almost finished with my interior(missing cluster installation) pictures below...next I will do the exterior but that will be in a few months since those are quite expensive here in the US. Again, THANK YOU CHRIS.


Looks like I can't upload since the photos are too large and I'm on mobile. Will add before and after photos later

Chris The Swede

You need a cable adapter kit and converter. And alot of programming. Wich s done remotely with team viewer.

My pleasure.

Seraphim

The programming can be done remotely? I thought you'll need Star diagnostics to do it.

Chris The Swede

Yes. Star Xentry & Vediamo. Done remotely.That is why you need Team Viewer to control on you computer.

Seraphim

i meant, dont you have to plug the star xentry into my car? i dont have a star xentry or anything that can plug into my car lol...

i have teamviewer as i use it to help my friends on their computer every now and then but i dont see how teamviewer will help program my car. can you explain further how it'll be done?

Chris The Swede

Yes..That is what I thoght I said. Xentry needs to hook up to the car so I can program it remotely.

Seraphim

Hmmm, can you tell me which model of the star xentry to buy?

nauticalx

can someone please explain what star diagnostics, xentry, and vediamo are and how they are different from one another? it's all unknown territory to me.

what system does the dealer use?

Chris The Swede

Xentry Star Diagnose is what Mercedes use in their workshops. Vediamo is used by engineers only for coding all ECUs.

Chris The Swede

Use C4 with 2016.03 sofware. And Vediamo 5. All over Aliexpress.com

Seraphim

Do I buy this one?

https://m.aliexpress.com/item/325521...aff_platform=y

Or should I find one with out the laptop?

Would you happen to have a used one for sale?

Seraphim

If I buy the computer above, will I be able to program the cluster myself and not have to take it to dealer?

Chris The Swede

Yes. PM me and I forward you to a good one that I buy from.

Chris The Swede

hillcreative

Chris, can you also PM me the diagnostics system as it may resolve my "dealership programing" issue. I like the idea that you could access it remotely.

Chris The Swede

PM me..

SnakeDoctor

Not many cars make me second guess my choice to get a coupe, but yours comes close. Then I remember I live in Houston, TX. Looks good as always. The scenery is great too.