mekantor

I had my phone charger in the rear socket for a while, but its a bit annoying and I didnt like the way it looked down there.

If you get the floor panel out of the compartment between the seats, you will see a brown and yellow/black wire, those run to that rear socket. I disconnected their harness to avoid accidentally frying the fuse, and attached these:


Oops, should've gotten different colors, oh well. I just checked continuity lots of times to make sure nothing got mixed up. On the other end, I hacked a 12V socket from a splitter and prepared it to get attached:


The socket, harness, and charger are now connected and tucked down:


Plastic floor is down, now the USB charger and iPod cables are coming through:


Looks cleaner:

TonyGia

nice write up! wish it couldve been done on the 63 so i can follow. ehh ill figure it out

SterlingE55

Haha, I have wanted to do something like this for a while. Except I wanted to flush mount a USB port to the inside of the console. Well done sir!

Yacht Master

Nice, I see an I-Pod conector in there too

mikekuriger

I did the same thing. Awesome writeup!

grantwoodtx

Nice job Mike. It looks like you did the iPOD kit at the same time? How did that go?

mekantor

iPod kit went in earlier that day, no too bad with proper tools, and Yacht Master's DIY on it was very helpful. The kit is also cheaper than most iPods, so that helped motivate me.

27300man

mekantor or anybody: What is the proper way to remove the floor panel in the center counsel without breaking anything?

Thanks

mekantor

There are 2 small openings on it, on the sides towards the front. Get a tool down through the opening and press to the side while pulling it up through the round opening. That will release the clips and it will pop up.

06E55

A flush mount USB port would be sweet!

W211 BEAST

It's possible, just really expensive. Might be more worth while to buy a used COMAND from a newer E w211 with an SD card slot.