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Old 05-02-2019, 07:59 AM
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Steering wheel - Head Unit - Basic questions

Hi.

Well after searching a lot about r230, I decided to buy sl350.
I agreed with car shop, it's gonna be mine in next 5 days.
What bothers me is two things. Steering wheel looks very bad in my opinion and head unit is too boring.
I found picture on internet which shows that someone actually retrofited modern sw inside of r230.

Question is: How? Any DIY idea?

Also head unit: Found on youtube that someone has mounted android 10.25 navi&audio unit which looks modern and very interesting. But also without description so I am stuck.
It looks awesome: https://youtu.be/KIJbuIKGec8

Here is screenshot:

does anyone know what type of device is this one and where to find it.

Thanks in advance MBworld
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I just got my sl500. I want to do the same thing with the steering whee. PLEASE guys help us out. what year and model do we need to buy in order to do this retrofit
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I found solution for head unit. For steering wheel not yet.
It is probably this 2 DIN unit:
Android 10.2 inch


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Originally Posted by SLBenzMaister
I found solution for head unit. For steering wheel not yet.
It is probably this 2 DIN unit:
Android 10.2 inch

Huuuuge hassle to swap out the head unit on one of these.
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That head unit may be functional (if a genius can get it to work with the steering wheel), but boy, it totally destroys the interior design.
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Originally Posted by SLBenzMaister
Hi.

Well after searching a lot about r230, I decided to buy sl350.
I agreed with car shop, it's gonna be mine in next 5 days.
What bothers me is two things. Steering wheel looks very bad in my opinion and head unit is too boring.
I found picture on internet which shows that someone actually retrofited modern sw inside of r230.

Question is: How? Any DIY idea?

Also head unit: Found on youtube that someone has mounted android 10.25 navi&audio unit which looks modern and very interesting. But also without description so I am stuck.
It looks awesome: https://youtu.be/KIJbuIKGec8

Here is screenshot:

There is also a place sells called ckmcardesign but if your patient buy on aliexpress. They don't help install where *** ckm will guide you over phone but I don't need I've done bunch

does anyone know what type of device is this one and where to find it.
Yes
Thanks in advance MBworld
There is also a place sells called ckmcardesign but if your patient buy on aliexpress. They don't help install where *** ckm will guide you over phone but I don't need I've done bunch

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