CD changer on W210 E320 Estate

[proser]

Hi,

New to this forum, but can't seem to be able to find the answer by searching.

I have the Comand unit, and last night removed it to clean the lens and rollers - all works now , and found that on the left side there is a fibre optic cable plugged in. Is this for the CD changer ??? If so where abouts would it come out ???

TIA
Mark

 

[230K]

This should help to show where the Cd changer is located.

Welcome to the forum by the way.

230K

 

[proser]

Thanks for that, now to clear the rubbish out from there and see what I find.

 

[proser]

I have had a look and found what looks like the bracket for the changer and also a couple of electronic boxes attachded to it, which I think is to do with the phone system.
There is a optic cable going into the top one (can be seem on the right side of attached pic). Can I splice into this to feed a CD changer, if so how ?? also what about power as unable to find any spare plugs around there.

TIA
Mark

 

[richard]

Thats the integrated phone controller you can see there

Have a look round for the CDC power wiring, a small black 3 pin plug, and yes, you can connect things into the fibre optic loom, there are special joiners

[edit, otherwise you have to run power cable from the head unit. When you had COMAND removed, did it have a C1 plug, small 8 pin squareish plug, thats the one with the CDC power wiring ? ]

R

 

[proser]

Thanks Richard,

I'll have another look for the 3 pin plug.

Yes I think there was a C1 plug in the back of the unit, well there was the fibre optic, ISO connector, GPS connector, and a 4th connector above the ISO which was located and lock in place by a sliding clip.

TIA
Mark

 

[richard]

THe lock in clip connector is the C2. The C1 is the small, hard to get out, one next to it

R

 

[proser]

Thanks again Richard,

I'll have to take the unit out again to confirm.

If I don't have the C1 connector, how easy is it to get a loom or parts to get the wiring from the unit to the CD changer.

Also what parts are needed for the fibre optic

TIA
Mark

 

[lynall]

On mine all the fibre optic cables seem to form a ring main ie into one device and out to the next, but using only one plug per device.

Pretty certian one box is for the phone and havent a clue about the other two

Lynall

 

[Diesel Benz]

On mine all the fibre optic cables seem to form a ring main ie into one device and out to the next, but using only one plug per device.

Pretty certian one box is for the phone and havent a clue about the other two

Lynall

The top one would be the phone controller (I believe it reads "Nokia" somewhere) and the bottom one must be for voice control.

 

[lynall]

DB thanks i wouldnt have guessed, that and yes it has got linguatronic so top box is phone, bottom is voice any idea what the silver box behind the 2 black ones is?



Lynall

 

[proser]

Well it seems like I have no power connector for a CD Change installed. So is this product what I need and is the price acceptable (I know I will need db2 for the changer, but that is the easy part to resolve)