Folks, Well the 2002 e320 wagon with fries sucks today ….
I drove it to the Kroger to get a dozen Valentine’s Day roses for the pretty red headed woman … well, no good deed goes unpunished. So, I drove the hovercraft about 8 miles to the Kroger on the next island, uneventfully. Last week, if you remember I replaced the key cases …. The originals were busted up. When I bought the car, previous owners said key #1 started the car and key #2 supposedly didn’t start but remote worked …. After new fob cases and batteries, both keys would start and work the locks. So after shopping the key would not turn … I got some errors, I assume on the cluster but each time it would be different including maybe an r5 or r 3 but maybe some segments of the lower right window in the cluster are out … by the way, I couldn’t operate the big cluster display … odometer etc today … it had always been dim but today nothing. I messed around with some stuff …. Lock unlock etc I also used a screwdriver and put the shift selector in neutral etc … will a car such as this start in neutral? I also located the battery under right rear seat … it’s a nice big one that could run a 123 diesel …. And I removed and replaced all the fuses … are there a bunch of blank spots in the fuse panel. It was dark, so that was all I could do … I would have disconnected the battery but I had no tools or Mercedes’ tool or first aid kit … just one screwdriver So I called the red headed woman and she brought me the other key which I suppose I should have had in the car. Bingo it started up fine and I drove home. Once home key number one still didn’t work and key two still works. Ideas?? One bit of back story … we had maybe five plus inches of rain and the car was parked in 2-3 inches of water, but no more. Water never touched the car except from rainfall. Everything was dry around the electronics … where is the main ECU ? Passenger kick panel or somewhere around there? So far I’ve only replaced mechanical things … key cases, hood release and windshield wiper … and am about to replace hood lift struts ….. maybe I should just sell it to Floyd!! Or make him help me diagnose it with his fancy Chinese computer! Oh, there was a box marked Motorola and Benz under the drivers side rear seat …. What is that an analog cellphone? Can I just unplug all that without disturbing the nannies? I know I need to replace all the fuses. This is a lot … call it the Valentine story. And yes, I gave her the roses 🌹 at the Kroger. Xx rick _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
