Yeah, its going to be a challenge, but as much and bad as it looks on the surface, it's not that bad. Understandable electrics. I like that.

I worked on it today and amazingly didn't get totally discouraged. In the process of assessing things, I found it particularly easy to repair his screw-ups. Thought process? Do the opposite of what a gorilla would do and it seems to be repairable.

Today I repaired the seats as they didn't release with the lever. I needed to do this so I could get in the back and work on the carpet and trim behind the seats. The repair was to get the latches to release on both sides. The lever pulls on two cables and as I see it is much like a parking brake setup. You can't adjust one without adjusting the other. So, once I got the seat to release I was able to remove the screws in the lower part of the seat back, thus allowing the seat back to come off, exposing the mechanisms. From there, I made the adjustment to both cables and bent the long cable support, in effect shortening the cable. Without this adjustment, I would have had to replace the cable as it was too long and there was no more adjustment available. The bending worked.

The other thing I did was to remove all the left over wires/cables from the removed (or stolen) sub woofer and amp. Typical sound shop installation. Holes cut and drilled. Screws missing. If anyone is parting out one of these 129's and reads this post, it would be particularly helpful to have some miscellaneous screws, etc. Surely someone somewhere has a box full of Mercedes hardware they're willing to let go of.

Lastly, I removed the wood center console and fixed a bunch of loose stuff relative to that. Now I have to figure out how to wire the stereo without an amp. A wiring diagram would be helpful.

Is there a test for the A/C controller? Are these typically faulty? Another post for another time, but just thought of it so made mention.

Needed: Shop manual and Owner's manual.

Regards,
Michael B.

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