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Old 05-13-2006, 09:15 AM
rchase rchase is offline
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Originally Posted by sclassforever
Following some advice from the archives I locked and unlocked my door a few times. WTF? Then it started right up! Seems a little sketchy to me for a car that listed for $63,000 new but hey, thanks to MercedesShop I saved a tow and who knows how much to diagnose a simple prob...
Its a pretty complicated car.... Cut it some slack..... Its one of the first cars in the world to use a fibre optic network rather than big wiring looms.....

I "think" that there might be some early form of an RFID chip in the key that has to resync with the car..... At least you can do this reset without the assistance of a dealership..... With many cars re configuring a remote requires a trip to the dealership and their associated labor costs.....
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