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Maybe a silly question, but why can't you just cut the Japan spec connectors off and splice the correct wires to the connectors that came with the radio you bought?

Hey there! My Dad owns an E32 which has been sitting for over 6 years now. I live in Ontario as well, I'm a high schooler with the ambition to restore it's car to the glory days. Around 6000 to repair all the wrong-doings of the car. If you still have the car, do you mind telling me how much is costs per year to have it? (Like insurance, gas, maintenance)

This video was super helpful when I swapped my Japanese COMAND head unit in a W209 against an Android unit. I found that I did not need to use any physical ACC, illumination, or reversing camera, wires, since all these respective states/signals are communicated over the CAN bus and the Android unit receives them via the CAN bus module. So, for instance, the buttons on my Android unit light up, when I turn on the headlights of the car, even though I did not connect any illumination wire to the head unit. Same with the reversing camera; its signal is automatically displayed on the Android unit, since the latter knows when to switch to it based on CAN bus information. One essentially only needs to find the following from the Japanese car: 12V, GND, CAN high and CAN low (one also needs the antenna amplifier wire but only if one does not get the MOST converter to work). The Android unit will turn on when it receives a signal from the CAN bus module (which in turn receives it via the CAN bus wires). It won't use the 12V constant power permanently, unless one uses a "sleep mode" to make it turn on faster. The two CAN bus signals can sometimes be obtained from nearby CAN bus hubs, but in my case it was easiest to tap into the CAN bus signals from the upper control panel (the one with the hazard lights switch). I cannot speak to the W220, but I would suspect that the CAN bus module would also take care of all the signals for ACC, illumination, and reversing camera. P.S.: For the MOST adapter, one should find ACC, in addition to 12V and GND, so my reduced wire list above was only meant to apply to the head unit.

are these still for sale?

No need to plug illumination and acc, otherwise what for is the can-bus box in there?

That's not a flyby ....thats a fly around

hi, I am installing one of the latest Xtrons units. Its very similar. In your video, you dont cover the FM antenna connection. My can is also a Japan import W220 2004. I can easily identify the factory plug on the car.....but its nothing like anything on the Xtrons unit. Xtrons do supply an adpater that fits on the back of their unit, but the other end is nothing like the Mercedes plug. Do you remember what you did ? Thanks

I have a question, every Mercedes W220 needs a Can Bus box to keep the steering wheel controls?

What did this end up being? I’ve got a similar sound from my N54

Hi, would like to the similar swap for for my e34, you know any knowledged shop

I just did the same setup today on a friend's car, but the steering wheel wires that I pulled from the HVAC as your instructions didn't work, they just made the HVAC go off. Any idea which would be the steering wheel wires other than the brown/brown&red wires from HVAC?

Come on, how am I the first??!!!! ... I guess that pilot thought, "It's time to buzz the tower".

You just keep showing your options it’s not important let’s seehow the car goes open it up a little it has an m5 engine don’t be scared to push it dude

what canbus protocol isthis car using?

Very good pice of work I have the same trouble in my cl 50 year 2004 radio switch on gif a short time lthen off tepetitly the part no on my audio gateway unit A 231 870 38 89. Were would I get one second hang when fitted does it have tone prograhamed to the car I hoe you can help me tjsmkd

Wow

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Do you still have this ?

You might be a lifesaver I recently purchased a Japanese Mercedes radio and I can't find the 220 S500 2003??

hi. good video. do you remember the colors of the canbus wich one is wich on the xtrons? and the second thing: what for you are using fiber optic decoder box? thanks a lot

Nice car, any more info of the build you can provide, engine bay video?

Whats the price?

By the way I am temporarily using this solution which works for my "SWC" but prefer the actual SWC th-cam.com/video/zfvFwew7CeU/w-d-xo.html

Great video. I am working on installing a universal android head unit in my US W220 2004. I used a fiberoptic decoder and have wired everything and all works. Two problems. My battery drained overnight. Could it be because I wired fiberoptic decoder to constant power per benzworld forum instructions? Secondly, since my unit is universal, it doesn't have a canbus module, therefore I lost steering wheel controls. Are these CAN modules car specific? Can I use one for a w211 or a VW? I had contacted some w220 AHU sellers and they wouldn't sell me just the CAN module. So I'm considering trying this...www.ebay.com/itm/273958559325

At least you have gotten the sound right! +1

The FM Band in japan is 76-95 MHz right? Changing the head unit to a xtrons, this automatically will work with the US band 88.0 - 108.0 MHz?

Do you think that will work in a 07 CLS 350 (w219) japan version? (The w211/w219 xtrons model)

So THIS is where the song comes from! Never knew that!

plz make another video about that car ant tell smth about specification :D its seems to be great project

YYZ - Toronto Canada right?

did you rip the file with a potato, by chance?