Thread: 2006 Mercedes C230 SPORT Restoration

I think they look great and sometime practicality wins out in the end right?

Great job, and great idea. I live in hot hot Florida and have considered ways to keep the car cool. I just did this video last week as an experiment, see below. My idea keeps the Jeep cool too, but your idea looks tons better, and a solar panel on a Benz is kinda out of the question. On my jeep, eh, we'll see, prolly weird too, but then so's driving an old jeep with all the decals I have on it!



That was just an experiment. My intention is to do it up "not using cardboard", and also mount the solar panel somehow via the roof rack. And I too will likely install only one vent shade on the one window with the solar driven fan. We'll see. Heck, maybe with the results you've seen, I don't even go solar, and just use the vent shades. The vent shades I ordered should be here shortly. we see, but yep, any way to keep cooler, right...

Cool idea Slab. I like all the decals on the crappie.com jeep.

Originally Posted by SuperDave336

Cool idea Slab. I like all the decals on the crappie.com jeep.

I think Rojo’s Benz needs a big crappie.com decal on it. Hehe


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When I can slow down I will get to cutting some vinyl............Delivered a boat today I propped out for a customer. He gave me a V-Max 150 Yamaha for my troubles............sweet.

Forget the decals. He gave you a 150 Vmax! Holy cow. Does he need more friends. I can fix stuff too! lol


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Originally Posted by Slab

Forget the decals. He gave you a 150 Vmax! Holy cow. Does he need more friends. I can fix stuff too! lol


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No horning in on my Action........and yes, the V-max runs too.

Lately I am driving my car and hot air will start pouring out of the passenger side dash vents. I would wiggle the passenger temperature selector switch and the A/C would go back to blowing cold air. Other times the A/C would just come on out of the Blue. I would turn the fan control on & off then the A/C would go back off and the system would behave the rest of the trip.

I contacted the Mercedes Dealership that has worked magic for me and thru them a remanufactured replacement which had to be shipped from Germany was $491. I buy parts for a lot of things off EBay and over the years only 2 bad deals so well over 99% good deals. Looking over the offerings for 2 days I settled on a replacement part for $89 free shipping.



My car has the AMG aesthetics package so it has metal trim instead of the woodgrain look. Anyway all of the trim had to be removed around the shifter first.



A quick pry with a interior trim tool on each side of the shifter released the 2 forward trim clips. Afterwards the Shifter boot trim had to be unclipped. Once that was done I could rotate the console trim off the shifter to place out of the way.



To remove the ashtray two plastic clips were retracted and the whole assembly rolled out on to the side so I could release the wiring plug on the back.



There was a little spring loaded plastic stop the retained the plug release lever for the wiring, when I touched it of course it broke so I continued to unplug the climate control unit so I could swap it out.



Easy swap, 4 Torx screws and the control fell out of the trim.



All back together now. I didn't realize how bad my climate control was, I thought it was just rheostats but it actually has switches that click as you move a knob thru it's range. Everything works great now till another Gremlin pokes it Head Up.