[W126 Coupe] My 560SEL

[Jonathan Hodgman]

I believe there is/was a company that was building V1 displays into
rear view mirrors..  I'll have to see if I can dig up their site..

Jonathan



On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 22:37:28 -0500, Gary Green
<Gary at evergreen-systems.com> wrote:
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> 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
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> 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. 
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> 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 
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> 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. 
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> Dick in Boston where it is mighty cold and windy tonight...
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