Wanted Car phone or mid '90s Nokia kit for 2110

Hi all,

Have any of you lovely people got a car phone in your garage that you don't want anymore? I quite fancy having one in my Mercedes as I feel it would complete the yuppie look. In truth, the car is a 1999 so it would've been a bit late to the party for a built in car phone but I figure most people wouldn't realise.

If not that, I'd be very happy with an earlier Nokia kit that I can put the old style Nokia brick in. I had the Orange 2140 as my first phone and I think it was their version of the Nokia 2110 but again this is a bit early for my car, for 1999 it should have a Nokia 7110 with the CARK-91 kit but that is a bit small and not really worth the bother.

Also, the irony of having it next to an Apple CarPlay unit is not lost on me I assure you!


It's proper bit of retro cool kit IMHO

I love your car. I had a 1997 E230 Estate which looked the same as yours inside except I couldn't afford the climate control unit that you have - just regular air con for me. Brilliant car. Ran it for 9 years and 175K miles before I swapped it for another E-Class Estate.

I assume the car isn't pre-wired with the connector (under the arm rest) to accept a mobile phone cradle? The reason I ask is I have two cradles - B6 787 5832 for Nokia 6220 & 6230, and B6 787 5864 for Nokia 6020 & 6021. I might still have the phones that fitted them as well.

Thanks Keith, you had the W210 then? They are lovely cars too, just a bigger version of this inside. I love the classic layout of these cars.

The climate and heated seats etc are standard equipment on the C43 (along with electric, heated seats etc.). It's the only one with all the switches populated in the centre console above the radio. One of my favourite things is that it has factory xenon lights but retains a glass diffused lens albeit with a different pattern to the halogen lamps and the lights are still excellent. The car itself is actually very special and little known, it's one of only 150 RHD Estate C43s built. I didn't particularly want a silver one but apparently 86 of them were silver so there wasn't a world of choice; it came up and I grabbed it. The great thing is that these haven't yet attracted the BMW/Ford/VW scene tax so they are still reasonably(ish) priced. The 4.3 v8 is properly quick even by today's standards, it must have been bonkers in 1999!

Anyway, the car phone is purely for the look, I'd like it to light up but that is all, yes a bluetooth upgrade to make an old carphone work with a new phone would be cool but it's beyond me and I doubt there is much of a market for them! There is already handsfree on the headunit that I fitted which was an absolute palaver as I couldn't risk cutting the factory trim as it's long discontinued so I had to make one and move the climate unit down to accommodate it. Everything can go back to factory original of course.

The C43 must be a cracker to drive. When we got our W210 the only options were the E200 and E230 which I assume were the same engine in different states of tune, and neither were going to suck the air out of your lungs. It was a lovely car though and I do miss it. The W211 E320D Estate that I replaced it with was arguably a much better car and went like a rocket, albeit I doubt it could have kept up with the C43, but the E230 is always the one I remember so fondly.