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Old 04-03-2010, 04:02 PM
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240D Stereo Refit - Help!

I posted this in the Vintage Forum but someone suggested I might try it here.

http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/showthread.php?p=2440657&posted=1#post2440657

I bought a basic Sony CD player with Aux input... I am going to replace my old Becker Europa... when I pull the Becker out, I see a whole mess of plugs and cords that do not exist on the new system.



and the new one:



Obviously, the old power plug and grounding cable I can probably figure out on my own. The green/black cables on each side of the old one unplug. I imagine those feed right to the speakers? On the old one is a black wire in the bottom right corner of the pic... this feeds into a plastic housing that you can see in the top left, with a red cord... what is that? It doesn't seem to unplug, the plastic housing that is.

Any ideas? I am probably going to have to cut and shave some wires off the new one, but to where? The manual is not very helpful. Has anyone done this before?

According to the local Best Buy install its going to need new wiring... they'll charge $140 for the install... before I just take it back and get my $75 for the stereo and keep the Europa, any other advice? I'm not much of a mechanic and would have no idea where to wire etc. Thanks.

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Old 04-03-2010, 04:25 PM
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whenever i get around to installing a new stereo in my 240D i am going to run new wires to the speakers... the current speaker wires run to the fader on the center console... depending on your current setup you may need to get a "hot" wire for the radio clock and presets...
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Old 04-03-2010, 04:26 PM
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This the reason I always buy my radios from Crutchfield. They include the wiring adapters and complete custom instructions for the car and radio combination. You might contact them and see if they will sell you the installation kit.
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Old 04-03-2010, 04:54 PM
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It looks like that may be the way to go, Crutchfield has this:

http://www.crutchfield.com/p_120702550/Mercedes-Receiver-Wire-Harness.html?search=120702550&ssi=0&tp=2977

which sounds like it would be a good adapter. They have the same model stereo as well, so I'll get that and they can walk me through it all.
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Old 04-03-2010, 10:54 PM
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I just did my 82 SD today, not much work really.
black wire is for power antenna lift.
paired wires are for speakers obviously, and red is power, brown is ground.
you will need to run an additional wire for continuous hot to keep your settings/clock.
I agree that the fader switch in the center console is annoyingly staticlly, so if you have that, I'd bypass it.
lemmie know if this matches up with what you have.
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Old 04-03-2010, 11:13 PM
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Pretty easy.

The biggest issue is the four speakers. Cut into the harness behind the fader for the rears, and find the speaker wires under the dash to tap into for the fronts (the ones coming to the fader do not have grounds.

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