Recently acquired a 95 e320 sedan with original Bose head unit. I am thinking about replacing it with either a JVC KD-R900 Bluetooth receiver or a Blaupunkt Toronto 410 BT Bluetooth receiver.

Question 1:

If I go with the JVC KD-R900, would I need to rewire the speaker wires? My car doesn't have the infamous center console fader switch, and it has 2 factory amps on the right rear tire wall. I'm hoping it'll be a straight install if I can find all the needed wires from the back of the bose unit.

Any thoughts and/ or diagrams are much appreciated.

Question 2:

Will it be a straight connection with the new Blaupunkt unit? I mean would the wire harness from the Bose unit fit perfect into the new Blaupunkt unit?

Here's a link to the Blaupunkt unit: Blaupunkt: Bluetooth Tuner[view]=1353&no_cache=1&L=1


I want to equip this car with a decent bluetooth cellphone capability so I don't have to rely on those spotty Motorola bluetooth microphones.

Much obliged!

I liked the oem Bose system in my cabrio. It worked great. I think you will have to rewire the system since the Bose system has the amps an etc.

Okay, feedback:

My 1995 E320 came equiped with Becker 1492. There's 2 oem wiring harness going into the back of the becker unit. one of them controls the cd changer, the other houses the rest of the wires.

Using a wiring diagram i got from a thread somewhere on this site, i was able to hook up all the connections without any issues.

Snaked the wired microphone underneath the center console and then up the driver seat, i clip the mic right next the the headrest. Everything is working perfect now and it only took me 2+ hours.

Another job well done!

Hey Maruzo,
Which head unit did you go with? I'm thinking about the Blau 410 for my 2002 E320 and am wondering if it's a straight connection or will require a new harness.

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So, for future readers, no 124 sold in the US came with a factory installed Bose anything. All Becker components and MB speakers.