This is a new ploy by Mercedes to sell more cars/vans/suv's etc.
You can only open the hood so many times and then it locks shut..

Sorry...looks like you will be needing a new car soon...btw, I have a nice 1983 300d for sale without this feature !

And welcome aboard, to the quiticential knowledge base of German engineering science.....................


.

__________________
[http://languageandgrammar.com/2008/01/14/youve-got-problems-not-issues/ ]

"A liberal is someone who feels they owe a great debt to their fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money."