With that said, I would like to make a backup of the CD that I use most often that I *legally* own and is out-of-print and has been for some time. The phone is used regularly, so removing the COMAND to change it to a more modern system would really not be ideal as I greatly benefit from the aerial antenna that the phone uses which never has reception issues. The COMAND does have the OEM Alpine D2B Changer, Digital Tele-Aid, and Motorola Cellular Phone with linear compensator and the linguatronic connected on the D2B ring. Since one CD-ROM covers the area that I most frequently travel, and it being loaded into the head unit slot, it is easily susceptible to becoming scratched or damaged, which would effectively impair the COMAND functionality greatly.
I intend on leaving the vehicle as built without replacing the COMAND, and when driving long distances these maps, although 8 years old, have proven very useful. I have a 2001 W210 with the factory COMAND 2.0 unit in it, and when I purchased it the previous owner kept the Navigation Discs up-to-date purchasing the last units released for the North American market, which were dated 02/2010, and consists of 10 CD-ROMs.
