[W126 Coupe] My 560SEL

[Gary Green]

Valentine offers/offered a stand-alone display that could be used instead of
the display on the radar unit itself.  Wired correctly, it could be placed
anywhere you wanted.  With enough patience and forethought, it could be
installed in such a way as to appear built-in/custom.

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From: mbcoupes-bounces at mbcoupes.com [mailto:mbcoupes-bounces at mbcoupes.com]
On Behalf Of Shayegan, Richard
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 10:24 PM
To: Mercedes Coupes Mailing Lists
Subject: RE: [W126 Coupe] My 560SEL



Detector under the rear bumper AFAIK is only for built-in systems. It’s for
detection of radar from behind of course (don’t know how much good it does
behind the bumper. The ones I know of are through the bumper). My aunt has a
set up like that on her Boxster. There is one red LED on each side of the
speedo down near the bottom of the speedo cutout. The one in left is for
rear and in right for front (I think, might be reversed). The faster they
blink/beep the closer you are to the radar source. It was picking up false
alarms left and right though. A friend of mine had a 560SEL that had a built
in system he claimed came from the factory (I’m thinking it was dealer
installed though). On each side of the speedo there was a green light a red
light, signifying different closeness levels to the source, one pair was for
back, one was for front. Neither of the built-in systems worked that well.
Something I did see on here once that was quite intriguing (I’ve also seen
it for Porsche’s on ebay) is a set up where they build a valentine one
(might just be the V1 display, not sure) into the rear view mirror. There
was a company in NYC mentioned on this list before that could do it to any
car. It was a $500 service IIRC.

Richard

 

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From: mbcoupes-bounces at mbcoupes.com [mailto:mbcoupes-bounces at mbcoupes.com]
On Behalf Of Dick Spellman
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 10:15 PM
To: Mercedes Coupes Mailing Lists
Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] My 560SEL

 

Well Dan your post is encouraging.  Vedat and Richard leave me feeling a
little more tentative in taking unnecessary risks.  One last question what
is the purpose of the detector under the rear bumper???  And, I'll be
behaving until the SEC comes out of it's winter hibernation so I am safe for
a while.

 

Regards to all, 

 

Dick in Boston where it is mighty cold and windy tonight...


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