My 2007 ML 350 4MATIC recently showed the light after a heavy downpour at night. The wipers, electric seats, rear boot lock, indicators and central locking all stopped working. I struggled and finally got home but the rear lights would not go off when switched off. I took the car to the dealer the following day. After computer diagnostics, the dealer says there are traces of water in the rear right boot compartment that has damaged the rear Signal Acquision Module (SAM SYSTEM). The dealer bill is a whooping usd 2,000.00 in Kenya including sorting out the manufacturer's defect that caused the water leakage into the rear compartment!
It sounds like your question is more about what to do about the bill than the repair. That's actually not uncommon. I am unfamiliar with the system there but here if we get faced with one of those "guess what you own a Mercedes" type bills you need to be talking to the service manager, if he can't do anything (common) talk to the regional and then national service managers. Basically what can and does happen is the national will put the dealer on the spot about it ie fix this or loose your franchise. For some reason even the most greedy "stealerships" will change their mind on the value of the repair. Sometimes covering it it entirely under warranty or under special coverage. Unfortunately that is about all you can do. Generally they will do something if this really is from a manufacturers or systemic fault, however sometimes you just have to pay the bill no matter howlarge or undeserved..
SOURCE: mercedes benz E class 1998 / E 200 petrol .problem
hello....
the wiper does not work the flash light does not work and the radio as well does not work ,plus the air bag light is on and the abs light on as well. any idea what could be?
thanks
SOURCE: E320 Electrical issu
Hi there;
I understand you have lost the use of the driver controled electrical in your E320. I have been through this before.
These cars have many, many,many, electrical controlers(computors). It sounds like youare having an issue with the drivers door controler, this is the controler that processes all of the comands from the drivers seat. What happens is, when you turn on your lights the comand confuses the controler it can only "think" about that one comand & it forgets all about the other commands.
The best way to tell if this is indeed the issue is to locate the fuse block under the hood directly in front of the driver. Find fuse #16, remove this fuse for about 1 min. then reinstall it. this should "reboot" that computer. This is basicly the same thing as disconnecting the battery only you are isolating the drivers door computer. If thisa works you will have everything working again untill you turn your lights on again. Also if this works you will need to have the drives door computor replaced to correct the issue. This not a cheep fix but unfortunately the only one.
Good luck, I hope this helps.
Farrout!
SOURCE: 1998 E230. power seats,central locking,power
hello,check your fuse number 4 ,15 for signal light ,check also the rear fuse box for power window,central lock,power seat ,located at rear seat in front of battery,ty
SOURCE: ESP,ABS and brakelights comming on
hello,good day,try to replaced your brake light switch,this switch have 2 function,for brake light and for esp and bas module,ty
SOURCE: 1995 Mercedes Benz S320
sounds like you have a wiring problem in the main lock switch in the driver side door or wires that run from there to the other doors. one of the wires in this system does not have a good enough connection to allow enough current to operate the locks. put another way, the wire itself is introducing unwanted resistance which reduces the current flow. the resistance could be a result of a poor connection at a junction or a section of wire which has corrosion or some other problem which diminishes flow. to find exactly where the problem lies will involve removing door inner panels and making voltage drop tests across connections. works something like this: i started out with 12v dc, i know this component should use 3.4 v (or whatever it is) but now i only have 4 v coming to this next component. so the wire is using some of the voltage. some drop in the wire is normal, but not very much. that is how i would troubleshoot it. you can just check the connections to power and ground, just look at things and make sure you don't see corrosion, wiggle connections and see if it makes something different happen, but you will still have to take the doors apart to do it. hope that helps
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