I bought a 126 vin matched tumbler that came with one key, I also ordered a spare key at the same time. Out the door was $74. This was about 5 months ago. Took about 4 days to come in.

keyed to your chassis so the key works in the door?

This whole scene came about when my lovely daughter lost the key to my 83 240/300 conversion. I took the chassis number and went to order a key but the insisted on seeing the title so i grabbed what I had marked in pencil as the ivory 240d and went and ordered the key. When she got the new key it would not work. So I figured the tumbler had gone badm, fixed the glow plugs on the 82 300cd last weekend loaded it up and hauled it to muncie, then loaded a non running 300d onto my trailer and brought it home.

so today with the 300cd down with a broken tumbler I decided to take the 240/300 out to my indie to sort the key/tumbler situation. In the process of figuring out which key it was from my 20 spares, I decided they must have sold me the wrong key. So I looked through my titles and discovered I have an extra title which is marked in pencil ivory 240d with sunroof. I found the correct title too and so I ordered a key for a car which I sold years ago and somehow still have a title for. (wonder which title I gave them along with the car?)

At the time of the title mixup I owned two ivory 240ds, one an 82 and an 83. I also owned at that time a maple yellow 83 240d and I believe the 82 300cd....so it is no wonder I got confused. I at one time discovered I had mixed up the little year stamps on the plates so that about three of my vehicles had illegal mixed numbers on the plates and stickers.;)

So on monday I will go order a new key for the 83 using the correct title!:o

Sure it is embarrassing but it is good that nothing else is wrong with the car!;)

No, unfortunately not.

Yes, keyed to my chassis. At my local dealership I was required to bring either the title or current registration paperwork. They ordered it and I had to go pick it up later in the week. They would not mail "security related parts" to me.

I have heard that other places are different though.

It's the same here.

Thanks for all the helpful posts!

LOL

It probably depends on the dealer. My local dealer ordered a spare W211 key for me based on just the sales paperwork and temporary registration for the car, long before I received the title or had it registered in my own state.

They would have taken the registration if I had it but that was in Muncie in the car and I was in Lafayette.

Too bad I managed somehow to end up with two titles for nearly identical cars.:eek: