I have one installed in my 300TDT. I was wondering if it can be pulled to resoder some of the pins to see if it can be refurbished. Some buttons don't work, and the LCD display is not displaying correctly. The speakers also go in and out of "stereo" and i suspect its the head unit and not the speakers. I figure if i can get the buttons working again and the speaker outputs then It would be worth it. Any ideas?

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1985 300TD Turbo Diesel Wagon
273,000 miles

1. Remove radio from car.
2. Wrap and place in box with plenty of cushioning material.
3. Write large check.
4. Send to Becker-USA.

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"Buster" in the '95

Our all-Diesel family
1996 E300D (W210) . .338,000 miles Wife's car
2005 E320 CDI . . 113,000 miles My car
Santa Rosa population 176,762 (2022)
Total. . . . . . . . . . . . 627,762
"Oh lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz."
-- Janis Joplin, October 1, 1970

Grab one out of a pick and pull after establishing it is good. May require you to take a small twelve volt battery to test it. German car radios were never my favorite playground when I repaired electronics proffessionally.

European electronics were always a little strange compared to north american products. The oriental stuff I found closer to ours. For example one of europes leading electronic manufacturers phillips wanted to stay in the north american market so bad. They paid my firm a lot of money to deal with their products. They were such a nightmare that rather than repair we developed running modifications for their product. There reliability was still horrible.

Or advertise on our parts wanted site. Quite a few members have pulled good becker units to replace them with modern radios. They should be willing to sell them cheap just to eliminate storing something they will in all probability never use again.

Do not send the radio out to becker for reconditioning. It will in comparison cost an arm and a leg. Or if the radio appearance is not too important to you a lot of aftermarket units preform much better than your radio ever did or will .Some decent replacement units are prettty reasonable today as well. Your call.

If I was not retired and caught up with everything. I would start to re engineer changes for the problamatic newer mercedes. There has to be a gold mine there. I have no ideal why their product degenerated so badly. Other than the cars where not considered to be a major profit centre of their empire. Perhaps their egos did them in but a lot of their electronics where and probably remain junk.

Tired old european speakers are not the best either remember. The speaker cones where not even average climate resistant and will decompose with time alone. This did apply to the majority of other manufactures speakers back when these were made as well.

I wanted to convert my radio to one that has an AUX input jack.

Becker wanted $100 to do the conversion Oh well my cassette adapter works very well.

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Buy a 1480 model from a 1990 car and modify it for the Aux In if you want to stay OE appearing. It is the best, drop in radio, for the least cash.

I had a Becker reman 612 I just gave to a member on this board.

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I'm not a doctor, but I'll have a look.

'85 300SD 245k
'87 300SDL 251k
'90 300SEL 326k

Six others from BMW, GM, and Ford.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty.[/IMG]

I was thinking about fixing my Becker Europa Cassette myself cause I like the look (the volume was flaky and the cassette player didn't work), but when I opened it up, it looked bad, and I'm not an electrical engineer. I can handle a pair of wire strippers and a soldering iron, but you'd want to be reasonably well versed in audio hardware before you take on one of these. I've got an after-market JVC that I took from my parts car. It works, but if I want the Becker back, I'd send it to them and I'd get the aux port.

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1983 240D 3.0T 4-speed manual, now sold

1989 Subaru GL Wagon 5-speed Touring Edition

I'd say those radios are the most complicated pieces of electronics in our cars.

I didn't realize it , but the radio actually lowers the volume so you won't hear static when you are getting a bad signal. I love those little features like that.

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Yep, and even the tape player worked!!!

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

LOL, awesome. Glad you could use it along with that wood trim. I have about 8-12 Beckers laying around. Even one from a '61 model!

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I'm not a doctor, but I'll have a look.

'85 300SD 245k
'87 300SDL 251k
'90 300SEL 326k

Six others from BMW, GM, and Ford.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty.[/IMG]

That's my plan! Got a 612 at PnP to hold me over. $15. The cassette deck is finnicky though... sometimes ejects my mp3 cassette for no apparent reason.

And yeah.. Becker NA charges an arm and a leg for ANYTHING from them, service or product.

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1982 240D 4spd, 327,000mi

I bought a european Becker 2647 (I think) from Germany for $200. I love it.

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Michael LaFleur

'05 E320 CDI - 86,000 miles
'86 300SDL - 360,000 miles
'85 300SD - 150,000 miles (sold)
'89 190D - 120,000 miles (sold)
'85 300SD - 317,000 miles (sold)
'98 ML320 - 270,000 miles (sold)
'75 300D - 170,000 miles (sold)
'83 Harley Davidson FLTC (Broken again) :-(
'61 Plymouth Valiant - 60k mikes
2004 Papillon (Oliver)
2005 Tzitzu (Griffon)
2009 Welsh Corgi (Buba)