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Jim B. · #4 06-09-2009, 02:18 AM

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Originally Posted by ncamin

I hate my car. Every single annoying thing goes wrong. It's great.
A week after I bought my 1990 190E the truck won't open. Two years later, I need to change the tail light. Please help. I have no idea and don't know anything about cars. All the other locks work and it sounds like it unlocks when I lock/unlock the door but I don't hear anything when I try to open it in the back. I can hear a motor or something turn using the key on the door but the key will just turn back and forth and push in when I use the key on the trunk.
I'm babbling, tired and frustrated.
Thanks for any advise.
Natalie

Read the owner's manual WRT the key, both the regular one and the valet one for the instructions as how opening the trunk works.

I don't know from what you said whether the tail light lens is smashed, or just a bulb is out. It is a straightforward repair.

The 1990 W201 series 190E is a basically good looking, safe and reliable, very well built, durable car of high quality. They were standard european taxicabs, and put together by Mercedes Benz to the highest standards of build quality possible. They are mechanic friendly too, easy to work on, and not yet overloaded with computers and sensors like the models of today.

It can be loved and kept up, good luck.