On the 1997 S500 the car has the in dash phone with a hand non portable reciever. For North California with Cingular is their anything i can do with this??? If not do most people just pull it out??

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1997 S500-80K Mint.

Phone is useless.

I took the phone out from the central armrest location so I could gain some additional storage space. I also took off the phone control module at the top central dash location so I could regain use of the sunglass storage drawer.

Both are easy to take out, just be careful not to scratch anything. I saved both units just in case I would like to return the car to its original spec in the future.

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A. Rosich
CL 500, 1998
S 500 L, 1998
E 320 T, 1995 [Sadly sold ]

I know the original poster contacted me off-site. My comment is this: Isn't there guys who are good enough with this stuff that they can take a regular "modern" hanset (cell phone) and can get a bracket installed in the console for the new handset and then also have a plug-in for the new phone which would enable at least the hands-free option to work? The phone manufacturers all have their own "hands free" kits for the phones, so wouldn't it be relatively easy to have an adapter so you are simply using the cars original speakers and cell phone microphone, plus keep the battery charged up in the phone? Or is there a problem say with the speaker impedance the car has or some other techie issue I haven't thought of? The only major problem I can think of is I know the antenna wiring is different for digital vs analog, but I think antennas are alot better in the new phones now, may be just fine without an external antenna. Seems like the people you see yakking on just a cell phone in their cars aren't having too much trouble.

Gilly

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97 S500 Coupe 139Kmi.
92 300CE 150Kmi. Sold
89 F250 Diesel 220Kmi. Dead
98 GMC 1500 160K.

Any tips on removing the dash phone unit? I tried pulling on the lock with a release pin in place but I can't pull out the lock.

Is there a pocket that remains when the phone comes out or do I have to get a liner?

Thanks,
Sixto
95 S420
87 300SDL