mobinakhtar

Hi friends,

I been thinking about replacing my manual (no display climate control) with a 03-05 E500 digital display one. I know they are plug-n-play and perfectly fit the dash but here comes the questions. the threads mention someone achieving it but then prople turn to other topics and detials never discussed.

1) Is it really really plug-n-play? No Stardiagnostic version coding needed?
2) what feature will I lose? like REST.
3) What do I gain other than a digital display? (any features)

Please do not speculate! anyone who has actually DONE this or seen it in action only please. There is a buttload of these on eeeeeebaaay for circa $200 or so.

thanks. I want this purely for cosmetic reasons - I miss the digital display from my W210.

MBZ16V

+1

CLEK500

i think you would be able to control the rear temp too, that's what i have in mine.

mobinakhtar

Bump - Anyone done this conversion - I am itching to do it!

ap10046

i got one for my '04, installing was ok, but it didn't work and I got a few error codes. Sad..

mobinakhtar

So you got it in. harness was plug-n-play? Did it not power on or did it power=up and then did not turn fan/ac on?

I have a feeling that this thing might need version coding. Did you get version coding done?