The £3300 DPF mistake?

[John]

In that car , perhaps you still need it for non audio functions ( poor design restricting choice then : means running two systems side by side ) but on earlier cars you can rip it out without affecting anything other than audio/TV/nav - that has certainly been the case in W220 and R230 cars I have driven . Decent audio is so important to me that I won’t have any car I can’t upgrade the system on .

I don't know much about the W220 but normally the S brings about the new generation and the later models follow with updated versions of the same tech as far as I can make out.

If this is the case then as the W220 preceded the W211 (and the R230 is a similar tech to the W211), this would mean you will have similar issues but as with my 211 E55, if you have bugger all options within COMAND you should be OK.

Beyond that you will be stuffed but I imagine your cars will run for quite a while to come so I doubt it will be an issue for you.

Decent audio though is by far the way forward!