Let me start off by saying I jinxed myself.

No more than 5 minutes earlier, I was telling my wife's cousin that I hadn't had any problems with my 02 ML320 in the 7 years that I've owned it, after he mentioned that Mercedes' quality isn't what it used to be.

Sure enough, when I went to pull my SUV out of his driveway, where we had folded the mirrors to allow people to walk past it unencumbered, they wouldn't open.

I tried checking all of the fuses, but I didn't find any blown. Neither side is moving, and now it also seems as if the window switches are behaving erratically (the auto-up and auto-down no longer work, you need to hold the switch).

I had to force the mirrors open, and they're flopping a bit.

So I've got two questions - is there a fuse or relay that I should investigate, or is there potentially a switch that has gone bad? Failing that - is there any way to properly manually override the folding mechanism, so I can open the mirrors all the way and the flopping movement will stop?

Thanks in advance for any help...

-J