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really messed up my car this time...
Alright, I need some serious help here...
1988 300E Last Thursday I took all of my seats out to dye them over the weekend. I finished painting and put the two front seats in yesterday. The passenger seat went in fine and all of the seat movements worked. When I put the drivers seat in, i tried to move the seat back, but it only would go in one direction on all of the switches. I then unplugged everything then plugged it all back in and now NOTHING works. I tried this several more times to no avail. Eventually I just got frustrated and gave up. So I am trying to fix it again today but I'm not having much luck. So far I've replaced the two front seat adjustment fuses. I then hooked up my multimeter to one of the motors and I did not see a change in dc voltage when I used the switch. So then I figured it must either be the switch or the unit underneath the seat that activates the motors. To figure this out, I swapped the passenger and driver switches and tried them both, but neither seat worked. So I put the switches back where they came from but I still can't get either seat to work. My next option was that maybe the car didn't know that my door was open and so the seat wasn't moving. I tried to start my car, but now it won't start. Panicked, I tried to turn on the lights, but THEY DONT WORK EITHER!!! ARGHHH I just checked and my clock stopped about twenty mintues ago when I did all of this. If you have any ideas, please let me know because I want/need my car back. Thanks in advance. Peter 1988 420sel 1988 300e |
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Is your battery still charged? Perhaps something shorted and drained the battery during work on the car. (and may still be shorted?) Good luck.
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Check and see if your battery is dead. If it is, charge it. You probably have some sort of drain on the battery as opposed to a short.
After you charge it you can test each circuit at the fuse panel with the amp function of a multimeter. There are are several good posts on how to do this - search on "battery" or "dead battery." If the battery is not dead, start checking the major connections. Good luck.
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Chuck Taylor Falls Church VA '66 200, '66 230SL, '96 SL500. Sold: '81 380SL, '86 300E, '72 250C, '95 C220, 3 '84 280SL's '90 420SEL, '72 280SE, '73 280C, '78 280SE, '70 280SL, '77 450SL, '85 380SL, '87 560SL, '85 380SL, '72 350SL, '96 S500 Coupe |
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