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| W5YK Extreme Veteran Date registered: May 2006 Location: San Diego Vehicle(s): 2002 G500, Unimog U2450, Posts: 543  | Removing Comand 2.0 and D2B components Here's some photos of the stuff you can pull out of your G500 if you are putting in a replacement radio. Most of it is under the passenger seat, inside a big plastic box. You can remove everything in that box. I've identified in the photo where everything is located. You should be able to pull all this out pretty easily. Maybe a couple of hours. It's easier if you pull the passenger seat out first, and that is very easy, just four bolts. Once you have the boxes out, you will need to decide whether to leave the harness in place, or to remove it. There's a lot more work involved in removing it, so don't start it unless you have a clear day to mess with it. Assuming you decide to remove it, here's the plan. First of all, you aren't going to be able to remove it one piece and sell it on ebay, or keep it in case you change your mind. So you need to bite the bullet and start cutting. First you must remove both front seats, and then the large console cover between them. Also remove the kick panels above the footwells on each side. Pull up the carpet on the passenger side. Remove the thin metal cover over the cable channels in the floor. It is just held in place by white goop. Cut the connectors off where they come through the carpet to the passenger seat. Don't cut the one that goes to the seat itself obviously. Pull the cables out of the floor channels and through the center area where the shifter is. You may need to make a few more cuts to get it through. Be very careful obviously. In this area, some wires split off to the rear fusebox and to the center armrest Teleaid switches. Eventually you will get to the area below the ashtray. Remove the air ducts there. You will need to move the metal tray at the side first. Now the difficult part. The harness disappears up behind the heater where you can't get at it. It then splits, with four wires going to the passenger side and the bulk of the wires going to the driver's side. You can't even see where they split, I had to figure it out using my brain, which took a very long time. The wires that go to the passengers side are two speaker wires (for the right Teleaid speaker), one wire to the fusebox for power to the handsfree module, and one wire that goes to the Bosch engine computer. You don't need any of these connections, so you don't have to worry too much about them. Locate the bundle of wires that goes into the driver's side footwell area. Make certain you have the right one. Pull hard on it, and it will slowly come through from the ashtray area. The four wires that go the wrong way will eventually break off. Some bravery required for this manouevre. Then it's a simple matter of pulling the harness apart and tracing each sub-bundle back to whatever defunct point of origination it had. You should be able to figure it all out from there. Eventually all you will be left with some wires that disappear up the A-pillar to the SOS switches and the microphone. The microphone lead is spliced out to three separate cables for the Teleaid, the cellphone, and the voice recognition. You can leave all those A-pillar wires in place, since they aren't powered, and you might figure out a use for them later. The GPS antenna is mounted under the front headlight. You can re-use it if you can find an RF adapter to hook it up to your new Nav system. I couldn't, so I replaced the antenna and ran a new cable. The Teleaid antennas are in the rear bumper, one each side. If you have done some off-roading, they will have fallen off already. The secondary Teleaid antenna is the one on the roof, at front center. The cable for that comes up the air duct under the passenger seat. You might as well leave that in place. If you wanted to put a ham antenna up there, you have a pre-drilled hole and a pre-installed cable. It took me all day to do this, but I started off trying to remove it in one piece, which slowed me down. And I had to have a lot of coffee and spend time with the circuit diagram to figure out what was going on behind the heater. So you could probably do it faster. (d2bcomponents.jpg) (d2b1.jpg) (d2b2.jpg) Attachments ----------------  d2bcomponents.jpg (131KB - 9 downloads) d2b1.jpg (50KB - 9 downloads) d2b2.jpg (31KB - 8 downloads) | |
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| W5YK Extreme Veteran Date registered: May 2006 Location: San Diego Vehicle(s): 2002 G500, Unimog U2450, Posts: 543 | ||
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| W5YK Extreme Veteran Date registered: May 2006 Location: San Diego Vehicle(s): 2002 G500, Unimog U2450, Posts: 543 | ||
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| W5YK Extreme Veteran Date registered: May 2006 Location: San Diego Vehicle(s): 2002 G500, Unimog U2450, Posts: 543 | RE: Removing Comand 2.0 and D2B components Here is an old photo I found of the one of TELE AID antennas that normally lives in each end of the rear bumper. So there is another one like it at the other end. This one had detached itself after some washboarding. The plastic brackets would break. I think I replaced the brackets three or four times before they finally succumbed to the desert somewhere. If yours are still on, you need a Baja trip. (d2b3.jpg) Attachments ---------------- d2b3.jpg (52KB - 8 downloads) | |
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| Ali-G New user Date registered: Feb 2016 Location: Edmonton, AB Vehicle(s): 02 G500 Posts: 3 | ||
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