Thank you for the suggestion.... I contemplated that, but then my headrest screens for the middle row won't work correctly if I am not mistaken... researched and looked at the eBay ones which look soooo cheap...I looked at the AVIN unit and it looks like all the separate dongles and modules still result in a 1000$ chinesium radio. not sure what you mean by aftermarket shop... somewhat troubling to think I would omit the amplifier and all the modules with a single din aftermarket deck. all those dashboard informational messages would probably no longer work... I hope somehow popping in the hard drive I ordered from eBay for like $40 will permit the radio to boot... have a feeling without the sectors being partioned correctly I will not have GPS data unless someone shares their disks. curious: once you transfer the disc info can you simply resell the discs on eBay and permit someone else to write the info to their car after getting the information transferred to the hard drive? I have been on the forums for weeks and all the info in my head has become garbled... at this point I want to see if I can do it.. If anyone has an aftermarket solution in the chicagoland area and would not mind me checking it out, I would appreciate it.... I also drive up to Cazenovia Wisconsin so if someone is near Milwaukee Madison Wisconsin dells or baraboo I would love to detour and see your install.
DEAD Control Assembly, Radio, Remanufactured NTG2.5 W164 X164 used to cut out after 45 minutes of AUDIO now it will not turn on at all. HD was HOT
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Yes I have , thank you, I even replaced it with my last replacement of the main battery going into this winter... the Radio / display did not come back...
I just came across this while sorting old photos. in august of 2019 I received an error on my screen that said " Navigation map on the hard disc is not suitable for the system" and yet a few days later, it disappeared and worked as it had before... just received my eBay ordered exact same hard drive and am wondering if I should just try to clone the hard drive using Norton and if the hard drive is any good anymore. I have to say my blood boils every time I drive by a Mercedes dealership... Mercedes Benz of Chicago replaced my unit with a remanufactured one and really could have cared less when I begged them years ago to help fix what I already paid for.... the one in Scottsdale Arizona tried to tell me my mom needed new brakes on her GLK a few weeks after I had just replaced them (they didn't expect someone in Scottsdale to work on their own cars I suppose and saw nothing in the vin history that would suggest they not create nonsense work)...
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