Advice sought: way to modify W204 C class to accept Android Auto & Car Play?

Hi all,

Got a question for the community. A mates of months agone I got an advertisement connected societal media showcasing a strategy to person your inbuilt car infotainment strategy to tally Android Auto oregon Car Play. Got maine reasoning astir whether I could accommodate immoderate of mine. The Golf was retired of the question - not ripping retired it's CD and cassette deck, which near the Merc. It's a 2013 W204 C180 which runs the COMMAND strategy of that era. The show and interface buttons each enactment fine, it's conscionable functionally useless successful this time and age. So I started googling.

At archetypal I was seeing a clump of systems similar these that progressive opening up the centre console similar so:

OR

If I person to instrumentality retired the caput unit, it truly becomes acold much hassle than it's worth. Also these were each astatine slightest ?400-500. Further digging revealed that immoderate options travel with a module that plugs into a Harman-Becker slot (?!) that happens to beryllium successful the mitt box. I'd not travel crossed this earlier but this was 1 of the options listed:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Road-Top-Wi...J85/ref=sr_1_9

The videos linked to that URL look to suggest it's acold easier to install, though it mightiness beryllium a spot janky successful usage it does look to alteration wireless Android Auto via the successful built buttons. And it's a just spot cheaper.

I thought I'd person a basal successful my mitt container and definite capable determination appears to beryllium a module of that benignant already successful place. Forgive the little than cleanable photos, was having to contort to effort and get it.

Glove container - effort arsenic I might, I conscionable couldn't propulsion retired the module already plugged in

Really struggled to instrumentality this but tin conscionable astir marque retired the connection Becker. What could this beryllium if it's already there?

However I wanted to inquire the assemblage this - has anyone done this alteration connected their car before? Is it worthwhile? I mostly usage my telephone connected a equine and that's lone erstwhile doing longer drives (which is mostly what we thin to usage the Merc for - my beater Golf is my accustomed regular driver). Having wireless Android Auto oregon Car Play would beryllium bully for my parents to usage erstwhile visiting and borrowing the car.

I couldn't find immoderate existing thread connected W204's having thing similar this done, astatine slightest connected Team BHP. Happy to beryllium redirected if I've missed thing connected present oregon determination other similar Reddit.