Lse14j10
07-22-2004, 03:44 PM
Hey Guys,
First let me say that I've been lurking around here for some time, and this is my first post. Everyone here seems to be very informed when it comes to the W202's. I look forward to being an active participant in discussions on this board.
I own a 98 C230, bought it used in April with around 49,000 miles. It came with the OEM tape deck (which was missing a button...drove me crazy). So the first thing I wanted to do was replace the tape deck with an OEM MB in dash CD player. After some searching, I found a couple I liked, but most were pretty expensive (300+ for an audio 10). Then I found one on E-bay with a pretty low starting bid. I bid on it, and low and behold, I won it. Got it in the mail, and noticed it was pretty unique.
The model is a Becker 4705, also called and Audio 30 APS in Europe. It has navigational capabilites, as well as being a wonderful in-dash CD unit. My question is, does anybody out there have and additional info on this unit? As far as I can figure out, there was never any nav. CD's made for North America, as this unit was never meant to be in NA cars. Any chance of another nav. CD being compatible? Possibly the Harmon-Kardon Traffic Pro?
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v344/lse14j10/Benz/stereo1.jpg
yeah, wish I had one....
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v344/lse14j10/Benz/stereo2.jpg
RDS works great...
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v344/lse14j10/Benz/stereo3.jpg
Apparently it talks to you as well...
First let me say that I've been lurking around here for some time, and this is my first post. Everyone here seems to be very informed when it comes to the W202's. I look forward to being an active participant in discussions on this board.
I own a 98 C230, bought it used in April with around 49,000 miles. It came with the OEM tape deck (which was missing a button...drove me crazy). So the first thing I wanted to do was replace the tape deck with an OEM MB in dash CD player. After some searching, I found a couple I liked, but most were pretty expensive (300+ for an audio 10). Then I found one on E-bay with a pretty low starting bid. I bid on it, and low and behold, I won it. Got it in the mail, and noticed it was pretty unique.
The model is a Becker 4705, also called and Audio 30 APS in Europe. It has navigational capabilites, as well as being a wonderful in-dash CD unit. My question is, does anybody out there have and additional info on this unit? As far as I can figure out, there was never any nav. CD's made for North America, as this unit was never meant to be in NA cars. Any chance of another nav. CD being compatible? Possibly the Harmon-Kardon Traffic Pro?
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v344/lse14j10/Benz/stereo1.jpg
yeah, wish I had one....
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v344/lse14j10/Benz/stereo2.jpg
RDS works great...
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v344/lse14j10/Benz/stereo3.jpg
Apparently it talks to you as well...