KeylessGo Retrofit?
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KeylessGo Retrofit?
Hey guys, I was wondering what your thoughts were on retrofitting KeylessGo for the SLK? It looks like you can use the same door handle and shift knob from the SL. I know Sunil has retrofitting his C class with KeylessGo and was wondering how hard it would be to do it.
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Originally Posted by xaveon
I know Sunil has retrofitting his C class with KeylessGo and was wondering how hard it would be to do it.
Unless you have 1) extreme good contacts within the mercedes organisation that also know a bit about their product AND 2) lots of time to fool around with the car AND 3) lots of money to order more parts when previously ordered parts don't seem to work - keyless go retrofit is pretty much undoable (which is something different then impossible).
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Originally Posted by xaveon
I know Sunil has retrofitting his C class with KeylessGo and was wondering how hard it would be to do it.
If that's the case, I'd forget about it.
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Originally Posted by xaveon
Hey guys, I was wondering what your thoughts were on retrofitting KeylessGo for the SLK? It looks like you can use the same door handle and shift knob from the SL. I know Sunil has retrofitting his C class with KeylessGo and was wondering how hard it would be to do it.
The rear keyless go lock might be W209 compatible. As for the door handles themselves anyones guess. If your first name is "Sultan" and your second name is "Of Brunei" then it is no problem at all.
Personally I would settle for "mini-go" which is my name for interior-only Keyless Go and nothing to do with the door handles.
2K is nothing like what it costs. It would start from 5K and go up from there. Bearing in mind that this is not a weekend DIY type of excercise.
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Think you might be beating your head against the wall on this one cost effectiveness out of normal price range required items including door handles,shifter,keyless go control modules,antennas(3 required) wiring plus let us not forget the keys themselves will have to be replaced (not the smae type as with std EIS) plus programming I don't recommend its bad enough to just fix these systems I know have been doing for several years now
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Originally Posted by xaveon
Have you guys done any Distronic retrofits?
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Originally Posted by Easy-SLK
Xaveon, it sounds to me that you have purchased the wrong car.
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Originally Posted by MBenzNL
when it comes to distronic - yes, he has the wrong car
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Well, I was really considering the SL, but felt that it wasn't worth it. All those options are nice, but when you get up to that price range there are a couple stiff conpetitors, and there would be a model change coming soon. So an SLK55 is the next logical car (I had to have a hardtop convertible). It just would be nice to have all those features on the SLK. I know that Sunil retrofitted all of these options on his C class.
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Originally Posted by xaveon
Well, I was really considering the SL, but felt that it wasn't worth it. All those options are nice, but when you get up to that price range there are a couple stiff conpetitors, and there would be a model change coming soon. So an SLK55 is the next logical car (I had to have a hardtop convertible). It just would be nice to have all those features on the SLK. I know that Sunil retrofitted all of these options on his C class.
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Originally Posted by benzmodz
By all means sign a blank cheque and I will personally pack and ship your car back to AMG. When it is all done and finished you should have a car with all of the Sunil options that makes the SL look rather cheap by comparison.
By the way, Steve and Dean installed VCS for the a few days ago and it works great! Thanks guys!
