How to get carplay available on a 2018 Mercedes c220d

[glennjamin]

Good Evening

Mates got a 2018 Mercedes c220d that he wants to get carplay on his radio to be able to play music from his Iphone, any idea how he can achieve this...

Thank You in advance

Glenn

[mikef]

After a recommendation on here I bought one of these for an older vehicle

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CPL4DC3M

It s not the neatest thing in the world, but it s dirt cheap and it works

Ps: to play music it would need a mini-in audio jack on the car radio

[Mammasaid]

Or get one of these from Aliexpress, similar principle, but plays over a spare FM frequency, we've got 2 in older vehicles.

It's very often on offer, I got it for £16 which is dirt cheap.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005010200163727.h...

[Richtea1970]

I would always go for one that uses the Aux to feed into the head unit. The ones that use the FM frequency are pretty poor sound quality and lot signal a lot.

[Mammasaid]

Richtea1970 said:

I would always go for one that uses the Aux to feed into the head unit. The ones that use the FM frequency are pretty poor sound quality and lot signal a lot.

Yes, if you can, however I've used this over FM for 6 months now and haven't noticed any losses. The technology seems to be much better from the early FM transmitters.

[glennjamin]

Thank you for replies so far is there a software up grade to the head unit that allows Car play to be used instead of a new head unit from AliExpress etc .He wants to use Google maps via his phone

Edited by glennjamin on Wednesday 25th February 16:54

[glennjamin]

Spoke to mate wants to use his display in Mercedes to mirror what's on his phone,has got a usb connector in centre console,

Does there happen to be software upgrade to allow this to work ??

[mikef]

I can’t speak to Mercedes. On a Porsche it involved changing the original PCCM head unit for an identical-looking PCCM+ unit, which cost over a grand fitted,

Hence the Chinese add-on units. A CarPlay head unit is essentially a low-spec, cheap, small Android tablet acting as a touch display with input buttons