For what its worth, a new key at the dealer is $287 out the door. I got a quote for our 2002 CLK320 a few months ago.

As Gilly said, its not "reprogrammed".

I believe the early 320's had harmonic balancer issues so check to see if its done, other than that its a rock solid engine.

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