ANYONE HAVE ANY INFO ON THIS HEAD UNIT?
 

This would be the icing on the cake for my project but I've only seen it in these two pictures I can't find any info on it! :(

http://i850.photobucket.com/albums/a...tachment-7.jpg

http://i850.photobucket.com/albums/a...tachment-8.jpg

Guess not. 84 hits and no comments! :))

Looks awesome! It also looks like it might be photoshopped for the R230. Note the different bezel thickness on the left and right of the unit. If you do find out anything, let us know.

Isn't that the chinese made player mentioned here before?

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Newes...243703181.html

I would be careful to swap out the high quality player (blaupunkt), that we have in the car for this product.

Reliability is probably not that good.

Ok, my bad, I just realized that it looks completely different....

Never ever seen that for sale. Dont Think it exsist. Only one ive ever seen it the one in the link.

Chris apparently this unit does or at least did exist. Here is sone info another member posted:

https://mbworld.org/forums/showthread.php?t=30043

Total vaporware. The date of that magazine is Feb. 2003. R230 came out just about the time that mag was published. They probably didn't even have an R230 to test this on. That unit - *if* it existed - was likely ONLY a navigation unit that replaced COMAND. You'd lose the audio and other entertainment feature with installation. i.e, no stereo. :( Take a look at the picture again. Poor photoshop of the unit in the R230 dash.

that's not US spec, it's either Japanese or Chinese, i've seen it long long time ago

and the Chinese knock off someone mentioned above are very well made, installed about 7 months and it still rocks!

So you didnt have Bose system then?

Spirit, can you give a bit more information on the Chinese unit you installed? Which one it was, what the install was like and if you just bypassed the installed AMP for the built in one. What year is your car? Any pictures?

Cheers.

+1

I just found Spirits DIY post. Looks like the only thing extra that he added was a 5 channel amp in place of the Bose. Here's his write up. I thought I'd made my mind up but the idea of keeping all my wheel controls and not having to worry about cutting my trim has swayed me. Here's the link;

https://mbworld.org/forums/sl55-amg-...n-upgrade.html