nokia phone kit fitted!!

[Bingy]

Good Morning all, New member here.
I have a 2004 C220 CDI avantgarde with a Audio 20 system.

the car has a phone cradle fitted with a bracket that goes in between radio and dashboard. I do not have an old phone to fit it plus it looks horrible sticking out of the dashboard. and it beeps everytime i start the car....

Can i just remove all the hardware concerned with the phone, and get it back to normal or will i need to do anything else to it?

Many thanks in advance for any replies.

 

[baxlin]

If the car doesn't have Bluetooth, you may be lucky and be able to buy a Bluetooth adaptor, it looks a bit like a Nokia phone, and sits in the cradle. By pairing any Bluetooth phone to this, you have Bluetooth in your car.

My old Rover 75 had this set up, & at the time I had a Nokia 6310 phone, which fitted the cradle. When I upgraded to a new phone, I used an adaptor as above very successfully.

OK it still had the cradle in place, but at least it was useful............

HTH

Malcolm

 

[Bingy]

Hi Baxlin
I would prefer to just remove the lot, I dont get that many calls to warrant it.

Just wanted to know if it would affect any other components of car if removed.

Cheers

 

[Bingy]

Does anyone else have any info on removing the phone kit from car, is is just piggy backed to Head unit?
Will it be ok to remove?

 

[richard]

It depends on what the installer did. We'd have used a piggy back harness (that goes between the car and the stereo), and wired the additional switched power lead to the cigarette lighter (with a fuse).

So, you have to take it apart and see what they did

Richard

 

[Bingy]

Cheers Richard will look this weekend.

I cant find anything about a code for the Audio 20 system in the handbook, does it have one?

regards

 

[richard]

It does not have a code.
R

 

[GLK]

When I bought my (now sold) W168 nearly five years ago, it had a Nokia kit installed and an external inductive aerial stuck to the NS top of the windscreen - horrid looking thing.

It took some research and a fair bit of patience to trace all the crap, oh sorry - components, and remove them:

I even sold some of the stuff on eBay

Anyway, I'd start by checking for any extra inline fuses - see one of the pics above. Also, the kit is a huge power drain - until I removed it, it would flatten the battery in 7-8 days, after it was gone, the car would happily sit idle for three weeks, and start just fine.

 

[Bingy]

Thanks for all your replies.
Dashboard coming apart this weekend!

 

[Bingy]

Hi Everyone.

Thanks for all the help, Phone kit is out and a nice clean dash with now phone beep now

Many thanks