[maboyce]

I'm looking for the correct wiring harness for an original Becker radio, specifically the rectangular speaker plug(s) and the power wire with in-line fuse. Mine were cut out so someone could install a Horrible Aftermarket Radio.

I don't need the antenna plug or the power antenna plug. Thanks!

More info at the bottom of this page.

 

[cooljjay]

Is this the plug you are looking for? This is the one that would have been used on your year but it is a euro and possible could have been order radio delete in that cause a Blaupunkt was usually installed.

The speaker plugs are generic European plugs that look like this.

Your year wouldn't have came with the silver faced becker. None of these radios used an inline fuse. It is located in the rear of the radio and fuse box.

 

[maboyce]

I have a model 460, the back of which looks like the attached picture. So those speaker plugs look right, but the four-pin one isn't. It seems to be for the next-generation 'electronic' radios. The radio came with half of the fuse holder on the power lead already. As far as I know, the rectangular plug right below the capped DIN plug is not necessary.

 

[cooljjay]

Okay well I still am confused on what you are trying to do?

I assumed you wanted to install the correct radio for the year...

The model 460 is a mono radio aka not stereo and if I remember correctly most of the radio will not work in the USA.

www.benzworld.org/forums/r-c107-sl-slc-class/1434294-installing-becker-europa-460-78-350sl.html

If that is the case all you need is a simple 12v line from the ignition or fuse box...the twist apart fuse holders can be found at any electronics/hardware/auto store..

 

[maboyce]

My car wasn't factory equipped with a radio but had one installed by the dealer at some point. When I got the car, it had a very ugly aftermarket radio and had the wiring cut to install it. I went looking on eBay for a period-correct radio and found this one. According to astralsilber.de, the model 460 was among the factory equipped radios available from December 1982 - 1984.

It looks from the labelling on the front like it should get everything except 103 - 107 Mhz FM, which is fine with me. I'll be buying an AUX cable for it anyway.

In sum, I need one speaker plug, and whatever came factory on the power wire, if anything. It would be nice if there were some kind of plug or fuse holder so that the radio could be removed and put back easily.

 

[maboyce]

Oops, just saw that link under the picture.

I hope I don't run into trouble driving the four speakers in the wagon. Everyone says it won't work except for the last poster. Hmm.

 

[cooljjay]

If the car came "radio delete" as mine did from the factory. There was never a radio harness installed.

The dealer that installed my Blaupunkt ran new wires from the box and probably 20 miles of speaker wire.

A "Mono" radio means that only "one(1)" speaker can be installed on it. This was usually a center speaker in the dash.

FM radio reception has changed a lot of the years. It also differences from countries.

Your also not able to install an AUX cable as there is no cassette deck in it. I have heard that the "ext tape plug" cable you can find usually doesn't work. This plug was used for the uber rare cb radio.

I sadly wasn't born when this car came out neither do I live over seas but I am 99.9% that this radio didn't come with a 300D(wagon). It could have been ordered I suppose but no where do I see it was an option in a 300D.

This looks to have all the radio's ever produced by becker and used in mercedes. It states that after 1980 the stereo version of this was only used in 280SL/SLC.

Google Translate-Sternzeit 107 - Zeitgenössische Becker Autoradios

Another site that shows the options for a Pagoda

http://www.sl113.org/wiki/Electrical/Radio

 

[maboyce]

Hmm, I can't tell if that sternzeit-107 reference means that the radio was only used in the 280SL/SLC, period, or if it means that that was its only use with the R107 chassis.

 

[maboyce]

Also, according to this, power should be provided from the cigarette lighter via a short intermediate cable that plugs in between the lighter and its power plug.

 

[cooljjay]

Correct but it depends on the power of the radio you are installing. This would work fine for this radio as it is a lower power unit. I run my continue 12v for memory from the clock, I run power either from a separate line from the box or cigarette lighter and illumination from the gear shifter light.

Now if you still have the fuse layout paper in the box, you will see there is a remark in the description of what runs off the fuse for the radio/acessories. It states that if a radio installed you must increase the fuse, I had the issue of this fuse blowing on my euro and then I found out who ever attempted the radio install never up'ed the fuse.

 

[maboyce]

Good to know about the fuse - thanks.