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Jeremy5848 · #9 08-05-2013, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Zulfiqar

hmm - makes sense, my car has a production date of 10/94, and is the oatmeal with no syrup model.

no memory seats
no telescope wheel

It does have the active bass audio with woofers in the front doors. btw thanks for the enlightenment of the other voice coil in the driver side front speaker.

Yeah, Mercedes referred to the two audio systems as the "Active Bass sound system with 6 speakers" and (part of option package E2) "High Performance sound system with 10 speakers." It looks like they installed the option packages randomly on some diesels and not on others.

Also unfortunate that none of the E2 options are DIY retrofittable, at least not without a hell of a lot of work. OTOH, you have fewer things to break (but by that logic we should all be driving the 240D with stick shift and no sunroof, etc.).

If you do happen to connect something to the second voice coil in the driver's speaker, note that the sound system and the second source will be heard together; this doesn't hurt anything but it can be confusing -- your police calls will be heard simultaneously with Janis Joplin singing "Mercedes Benz." The cellular phone installation had a special connection that automatically turned off the sound system when you made or took a call. I suppose you could DIY a relay to do that for anything you installed.

Jeremy