I own a 1991 300CE that I recently purchased. The car has nearly 125k.

Since I bought the car the A/C, front defroster and heater have always worked fine.

Today, however, when I pushed the defroster button I got nothing, zilch, nada. I pushed all the buttons and the same thing, no defroster, no A/C, no fan.

A few minutes later, after driving about half a mile (and the windshield begining to fog up)--air began to flow and everything was working as it should. The climate control is now working fine (at least for the time being).

This is the first time the the coupe has done that and, in fact, it is the first time that any of my Benzes have done that.

Any ideas on what the problem may be?

At first I thought it might have been a bad fuse, but then when everything came back, on that theory was shot down.

Is it a bad climate control unit?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

BTW, the only thing different about today is that it is raining (a rare occurrence this year in otherwise sunny So. Calif.).

Thanks.

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Current Benzes

1989 300TE "Alice"
1990 300CE "Sam Spade"
1991 300CE "Beowulf" RIP (06.1991 - 10.10.2007)
1998 E320 "Orson"
2002 C320 Wagon "Molly Fox"

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