What's the cost for dealer phone install?
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What's the cost for dealer phone install?
Has anyone had dealer installed V60 w/o factory prewire? I’d appreciate what you were quoted including the phone and cradle w/o voice assist. Thanks.
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Originally Posted by TPAbnz
Has anyone had dealer installed V60 w/o factory prewire? I’d appreciate what you were quoted including the phone and cradle w/o voice assist. Thanks.
I think that I would have paid for it myself if I had to. I find the phone integration system and the voice recognition to be incredibly useful and much safer than driving with one hand on the phone of an ear piece.
I picked a TDMA phone because I still get the best coverage with this kind of cell system. My other GSM phone does not have very good coverage. I am interested in upgrading the phone a cradle in about 2 years, but I would like a phone like the new Razor.
I am very happy with the way that my V60 works, people who I talk to don't even know I am on a speakerphone!
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Originally Posted by TPAbnz
Thanks, Steve. Does the phone voice recognition feature also allow radio controls?
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Originally Posted by ATS
I am sorry but that price for a phone is way too high..
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The topic that makes my blood boil lately 
I purchased the phone option when I ordered my car and came with the 60i. In fact, it was in my E500 and then transferred to the E55 now that I think about it. The phone and system always worked great. About two months ago the phone stopped working in the car, but worked fine out of it. I brought it in and the dealer attempted to fix it. Still didn't work. Brought it back and they told me that the 60i was not 911 compliant so they replaced it with a 60s. THIS PHONE SUCKS!!!!! I can't believe how much worse the service is than the 60i. Nothing else has changed: still Verizon, haven't moved, etc.
When not on the road I work out of my house. The phone is basically useless at home. It will routinely drop calls with 3 bars of service. The old phoen worked, my daughters phone works, and my wife's phone works. The dealer has replaced the phone 3 times!! None of them work nearly as well as the 60i did. I can't believe there can be such a difference. I've called verizon, motorola and no one has an answer.
I hope some time soon MB will come out with a new system that I will be able to retro-fit to my car. In the meantime I guess I have to decide if I should just go get a new phone. And then have an option that I paid for and can't use.
I purchased the phone option when I ordered my car and came with the 60i. In fact, it was in my E500 and then transferred to the E55 now that I think about it. The phone and system always worked great. About two months ago the phone stopped working in the car, but worked fine out of it. I brought it in and the dealer attempted to fix it. Still didn't work. Brought it back and they told me that the 60i was not 911 compliant so they replaced it with a 60s. THIS PHONE SUCKS!!!!! I can't believe how much worse the service is than the 60i. Nothing else has changed: still Verizon, haven't moved, etc. When not on the road I work out of my house. The phone is basically useless at home. It will routinely drop calls with 3 bars of service. The old phoen worked, my daughters phone works, and my wife's phone works. The dealer has replaced the phone 3 times!! None of them work nearly as well as the 60i did. I can't believe there can be such a difference. I've called verizon, motorola and no one has an answer.
I hope some time soon MB will come out with a new system that I will be able to retro-fit to my car. In the meantime I guess I have to decide if I should just go get a new phone. And then have an option that I paid for and can't use.
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Originally Posted by SAguirre
I did not pay for it, but I like it enough that I will pay whatever it costs when I get a new car.
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Originally Posted by jschade
Unlike Steve, I paid for mine (about the same $1400 that Steve paid). I am with Steve, the integrated phone will be considered a mandatory accessory in all future MB's, as long as they continue to offer it. It is the most useful feature in my car, and worth EVERY penny (or dollar) that I spent on it.
Wow. That's less than I was quoted by our board's favorite after-market installer (whom I consider to be reasonable/honest).
Was your car pre-wired? Did it include the cradle and V60s phone?
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Originally Posted by TPAbnz
Wow. That's less than I was quoted by our board's favorite after-market installer (whom I consider to be reasonable/honest).
Was your car pre-wired? Did it include the cradle and V60s phone?
Was your car pre-wired? Did it include the cradle and V60s phone?
Last edited by jschade; Dec 16, 2005 at 11:27 PM.
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Originally Posted by cte430
The topic that makes my blood boil lately I purchased the phone option when I ordered my car and came with the 60i. In fact, it was in my E500 and then transferred to the E55 now that I think about it. The phone and system always worked great. About two months ago the phone stopped working in the car, but worked fine out of it. I brought it in and the dealer attempted to fix it. Still didn't work. Brought it back and they told me that the 60i was not 911 compliant so they replaced it with a 60s. THIS PHONE SUCKS!!!!! I can't believe how much worse the service is than the 60i. Nothing else has changed: still Verizon, haven't moved, etc.
When not on the road I work out of my house. The phone is basically useless at home. It will routinely drop calls with 3 bars of service. The old phoen worked, my daughters phone works, and my wife's phone works. The dealer has replaced the phone 3 times!! None of them work nearly as well as the 60i did. I can't believe there can be such a difference. I've called verizon, motorola and no one has an answer.
I hope some time soon MB will come out with a new system that I will be able to retro-fit to my car. In the meantime I guess I have to decide if I should just go get a new phone. And then have an option that I paid for and can't use.
I purchased the phone option when I ordered my car and came with the 60i. In fact, it was in my E500 and then transferred to the E55 now that I think about it. The phone and system always worked great. About two months ago the phone stopped working in the car, but worked fine out of it. I brought it in and the dealer attempted to fix it. Still didn't work. Brought it back and they told me that the 60i was not 911 compliant so they replaced it with a 60s. THIS PHONE SUCKS!!!!! I can't believe how much worse the service is than the 60i. Nothing else has changed: still Verizon, haven't moved, etc. When not on the road I work out of my house. The phone is basically useless at home. It will routinely drop calls with 3 bars of service. The old phoen worked, my daughters phone works, and my wife's phone works. The dealer has replaced the phone 3 times!! None of them work nearly as well as the 60i did. I can't believe there can be such a difference. I've called verizon, motorola and no one has an answer.
I hope some time soon MB will come out with a new system that I will be able to retro-fit to my car. In the meantime I guess I have to decide if I should just go get a new phone. And then have an option that I paid for and can't use.
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Originally Posted by ATS
I am sorry but that price for a phone is way too high..
I use it, and love it... every day. It is permanently installed in the cradle. I don't walk around with it. I carry a regular Samsung Camera Phone which shares the 450 minutes with the car phone on my Verizon plan. I dont have wires hanging from my ear, I dial by calling out "Dial Name" even if a CD is playing (no need to press the Phone button first), and if I have to dial by calling out numbers I simply call out the numbers as they are printed. "Dial Number"..."516, 555, 1234" It makes no mistakes, I dont have to scream out the numbers one at a time like I do till I have a stroke in my GM Onstar Phone.
Flawless, Perfect. Silky Smooth... Just like you would expect a Mercedes should be.
Worth every penny.
Too expensive? say "No Thanks". If enough people do, they'll cut the price. Or not.
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Originally Posted by Barry45RPM
Too expensive? say "No Thanks". If enough people do, they'll cut the price. Or not.
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You are paying for it too, but WE have the phone. (All previously lived in homes in the US have preexisting phone wireing in them thruout the house right to the Central Office, but the phone company charges a big set up fee when you get a new number & move in. Technically speaking, all you have top do is bring your phone & plug it in!) So the fee structure is not quite like Cost of Goods + A Reasonable Profit= Customer Cost. (Just think what an Accountants expenses are for some blank paper, pencils with erasers, and Government supplied forms, and what he charges you...
Dont forget, bluetooth uses the handset's antenna. MB's System uses and externally mounted antenna. Reception is better with an outside antenna. Bluetooth has its advantages, but so does MB's.
The phones are expensive (partially) because MB pays Motorola to create programming within these phones to communicate/integrate with the Comand... and because everything is expensive about these cars. If the individual parts used in the car were inexpensive, how could you justify the car costing so much? LOL. MBs take is that the car is so expensive because all of the parts used to build them are.
Thats the price, take it or leave it.
Dont forget, bluetooth uses the handset's antenna. MB's System uses and externally mounted antenna. Reception is better with an outside antenna. Bluetooth has its advantages, but so does MB's.
The phones are expensive (partially) because MB pays Motorola to create programming within these phones to communicate/integrate with the Comand... and because everything is expensive about these cars. If the individual parts used in the car were inexpensive, how could you justify the car costing so much? LOL. MBs take is that the car is so expensive because all of the parts used to build them are.
Thats the price, take it or leave it.
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Originally Posted by Barry45RPM
Don't forget with Verizon, you're supposed to dial *228 <option 2> about once a month (on the phone itself while listening to IT, not the dashboard phone) to reprogram the phone to learn where all the local cell towers are. The service will vastly improve. When you do that the phone is supposed to turn off & turn back on by itself after you hear "Phone Programmed Successfully"
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Originally Posted by cte430
I've done the *228 so many times it's not even funny. ON all 3 phones LOL.
*228 updates the Perferred Roaming List for Verizon. It has nothing to do with learning where the local cell towers are.
Here is a more complete explanation:
CDMA companies (Verizon, Sprint PCS, etc) use what is called a Perferred
Roaming List.. PRL for short.
This list determines what systems your phone works on, and lets your phone
know what type of system it is with an Enhanced Roaming Indicator (ERI). So
it knows to display "Verizon Wireless", "Extended Network" + Flashing
Triangle, or "Roaming" with a solid Triangle.
The list sets priorities for each network, so Verizon gets the best roaming
rate possible.. and your phone knows what network it should use to know if
Verizon has an agreement for roaming with that company.
For instance, Sprint PCS is usually the first preferred network in most
areas. And, Verizon gets a better rate from Sprint than say, AT&T Wireless
for roaming... So your phone knows to use Sprint first, then another network
if it cant find a Sprint signal. It's more complicated than this, but it
works the same.
Doing a #228 updates your "Roaming Capability" (Verizon's term)/PRL list in
your phone, if a newer version is available it will benefit you so your
phone always knows what systems it can use... and you know if your paying
roaming fees or not according to your billing plan (America's Choice).
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shorthair, it's never made sense to me when they kept telling me to do *228. My problems have nothing to do with roaming. Guess they had nothing else to suggest. All I can tell anyone here who has the 60i don't lose it, and hope it keeps working for a while! Don't let the dealer swap it out for the 60s without telling you.
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Originally Posted by cte430
shorthair, it's never made sense to me when they kept telling me to do *228. My problems have nothing to do with roaming. Guess they had nothing else to suggest. All I can tell anyone here who has the 60i don't lose it, and hope it keeps working for a while! Don't let the dealer swap it out for the 60s without telling you.
I agree - the V60s has awful reception.
