Originally Posted by
VALK
This quote seemed appropriate for this thread
Thanks VALK for putting that up!
Originally Posted by
alaxfire
We should all be proud to have Josh ( sk8erjosh09 ) as a member.
I vote we give him a promotion, or Valk/FP : bump his post count by a 1000 or so .....
I am cool with that!!!!! lol
Originally Posted by
Mrmiata
Agreed.. you never know .. that one phone call could have been a good 200 post before all was said and done! I know I studied the wiring information on here for quite a while before upgrading mine.. the simplicity of "normal" install keeps trying to surface while decoding ours.. LOL.
It probably would have been at least that many posts lol. And I agree, it should be straight forward like everyone thinks, but we all know Mercedes and there approach to straight forward LOL.
Originally Posted by
alaxfire
I have tried 3 different aftermarket HU's in mine : Alpine, Sony, Blaupunct
In each case, I printed out the Crossfire HU to AMP page from the manual's PDF, then the wiring for each unit from the owner's manual. I taped them together and connected all the dots before going to the workbench with each radio and the Crossfire Schoshe adapter cable.
Always worked for me !
But anyways, +1 to Josh, "he da man !"
Thats what I had to do, study, study, study.
And thanks! I try lol.