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Car Forum / Mercedes-Benz Cars / June 2005

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Nokia 6310i/E200 Classic "W" reg

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Shiela S - 02 Jun 2005 17:38 GMT
Firstly, I know next to nothing about mobile phones, and even less about
Mercedes!

I just bought an E200 Classic "W"  2000 Reg, fitted with a Nokia Cark91 kit.
The microphone is fitted above the mirror.

Naively, I thought that if I bought the right phone, and slotted it into the
kit, all would be well.

Well, the phone works ok, it rings whilst in the holder, but when pressing
the "lift receiver" button on the steering wheel, I get a message on the
dash "function not available" and a little telephone symbol.

My question is -Is it going to cost me an arm and a leg to get this working?
Apparerently everything is there, I'm hoping its just a matter of setting it
up properly?

Shiela S
Dori A Schmetterling - 02 Jun 2005 18:26 GMT
The only thing that will work with the intelligent steering wheel is the
Merc factory-fitted telephone system.  Unless somebody in ths NG knows,
you'll have to ask a dealer if it can be retrofitted.  Or, what do you mean
by "Apparerently everything is there" and who said it?

Will probably cost several hundred pounds at least.

These days even attempting a retrofit may not be worthwhile as the phones
and their interfaces change so quickly.  Perhaps there is some prewiring.
This was an option on cars bought in Germany (which I did), allowing one to
fit another cradle later.  I took the full system option as my mobile phone
operator in the UK told me he would not use any such wiring but install
everything.

DAS

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> Firstly, I know next to nothing about mobile phones, and even less about
> Mercedes!
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> Shiela S
Shiela S - 02 Jun 2005 19:07 GMT
Thanks for the info.
Being so naive, I didn't realise that only a Merc kit would work via the
steering wheel.

> The only thing that will work with the intelligent steering wheel is the
> Merc factory-fitted telephone system.  Unless somebody in ths NG knows,
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Dori A Schmetterling - 03 Jun 2005 17:30 GMT
From where does the sound come out when operating the phone?  Dedicated
speaker or the car's sound system?  If the latter, is the sound system a
factory-fitted Merc one?

DAS

For direct contact replace nospam with schmetterling
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> Thanks for the info.
> Being so naive, I didn't realise that only a Merc kit would work via the
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