roken

Just received my Lightning to 30-pin Adapter (in the UK), and tested it in my 2012/13 CLS63.

Media Interface still works perfectly with the iPhone 5, displaying all albums + covers as before. Of course, it also charges perfectly too.

Was worried about this, so glad all is okay!

Hope that's helpful to some of you. Will test in my 2012 ML too just to be sure.

MB Dave

Looks like MB owners are lucky on this one. M5/M6 or in general older idrive cars arent working with the connector

Guilty

Can you please provide the link where you bought the adapter? Having hard time finding it on amazon.

Thanks

AC24

Can you upload some pics, showing how it works?

emericr

Would like to know as well which adapter you bought?

Guilty

Yep that would be nice, still waiting

hyperion667

wow, this goes waaay over my head, I was just hoping for some pictures

roken

Sorry guys, been abroad, the adaptor is the official Apple one:

http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MD...30-pin-adapter

This of course just fits on your usual media interface iPod lead, and works exactly as the old iPhones/iPods would have worked with comand, to see pics, please see the thread of my CLS:

https://mbworld.org/forums/cls55-amg...huge-pics.html

I think the only feature that I've found that doesn't function with the adaptor is the video from iPhone. Album covers and everything else mentioned in the above thread is intact for the iPhone 5.

dakrisht

Can't you just do everything via Bluetooth?

I have my phone and iPod directly via Bluetooth wireless. Everything works perfectly. I simply charge my i5 with a lightning to USB cable in the lighter port.

tonyep

Good to hear about this.

Sound quality degrades noticeably using bluetooth. Though it depends on how picky you are regarding this.

roken

You don't get the album covers/coverflow that you do when wired up. Personally I absolutely love the look of this. Shame it doesn't happen via bluetooth.

eddie00001

Bit of an old thread I'm digging up here, but I was hoping you guys could give some clarification.

My new C Class was delivered yesterday and I wanted to connect my iPhone 5 to it. The manual states to connect via the USB connection in the central console. I tried this but an error message stated that the USB device in unreadable. Next I connected it using the Apples lightning to 30 pin adapter, but I get the same error message. Looking on Mercedes website, it says that the iPhone 5 is compatible but that I also need an cable - A0028272104.

Went to the local Mecedes dealer hoping to pick up the cable and was told that it is not compatible with iPhones. So not sure which is correct.


I've been able to stream music via BT, but I'd rather have the full control that a direct connection would allow.

Thanks

emericr

Not sure about the C class but I did not have to change my cable provided in my 13 CLS. All I did was buy the 30 pin Apple adapter at Walmart.

eddie00001

I didn't get any cables provided with the car, I'm just using the ones provided by Apple (Lightning & 30pin, plus adapter).

emericr

That probably means you do not have the "media" package and could explain the issue. I would think the cable they mention would be your solution.