Hi All,

Is there anyone that could help me with the factory phone system in a 1995 S500 coupe? Should I just take it off and clip the wires? will that be bad? Please help!!!!!

VERY BAD to cut wires
Why do you want to do so...I would'nt byy a car if wires were cut...even if it were just the phones wiring...not to mention leaving the phone is good for resale, plus the phone can be used for 911 even if it's not under service from a carrier.

Shaun

Why not get service: Verizon

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I bet if you trace the wires that you will eventually find some kind of connector that can be disconnected. Do not cut wires.

Happy hunting.

I second everyones concern...DO NOT CUT wires. If this is installed like most it is likely in the center console under the armrest. I just removed mine from my 500e. If you remove the center box...there are usually screws toward the inside front of the box...you will find it attached with a typical jack connection. Just unplug and you will be done and the handset is likely screwed in from below. KEEP all parts which I have done so IF you ever decide to sell you can reinstall or provide to new owners.

Good Luck

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92 500e Spruce/Parchment (41k)
95 E320 Cab Cabernet/Parch (30K)
94 LS 400 Anniv Ed (traded on 500e)
85 Toyota Supra (103k)
90 Toyota 4Runner (56K)
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Why do you have to take it out in the first place!?!?

There will be some day 20 years or more in the future when occasionally someone will come across an MB from the nineties that is for sale, open up the console and say, "Wow, the factory phone is still in place!"

It has absolutely shocked me to see the number of threads of this nature on this site. It is not hurting anything to be in place. You can still get analog service, use the phone. In fact some day you may find yourself in a rural area where you can get analog service but not digital. I live in a remote area where my digital phone doesn't work but my trusty analog car phone does.

That said, if you INSIST on removing it, PLEASE don't cut the wires. If I were looking at a used car, particularly an MB, to buy and found even ONE wiring harness cut anywhere throughout the car, I would walk away from that car even if everything else about that car was perfect. Wire cutters have butchered more cars over the years than any other single act that I can imagine.

My advice, leave it in place and enjoy the comments that you will get about the integrated factory phone, but PLEASE don't cut ANY wires in your car.

Good luck,

Removed the integrated phone in the 500E (no cutting required: just jack disconnections and opening some modular connectors on the trunk unit).

I've carefully saved and stored the phone components so that they can be put back; in any circumstance where I am branching from the factory-stock configuration, I save the original units.

It is likely that good examples of these cars will someday be owned by historically owned collectors who prefer them in original-factory-stock condition. I've been in the barrel before with concours restorations, trying to find rare stuff that someone carelessly removed and discarded decades before. Might as well make their work easier.

I removed the phone for two reasons: more room in the armrest (the lack of a dashboard glove box is slightly cramping when one carries a lot of small items) and because of the INTENSELY LOUD and intrusive phone beep through the dashboard speakers when the car is started. If there had been some way to defeat the beep, I might have opted to leave the phone in situ as a safety hack.

s/b