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Old 03-12-2014, 06:33 PM
Zulfiqar Zulfiqar is offline
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Originally Posted by mpolli View Post
I had the same problem in the same car. In my case it was a bad EIS. That is about a $1500 job at the dealer since you have to get new keys also. I think I had a thread on here about that.

Another person said they fixed theirs with new keys and that thread is around also. That will still cost you about $300 per key, and the computers can only accept so many new keys then you have to buy a new one.
That is a tough one surely, the EIS can only be bought brand new from MB and is then married to the car, I think its sort of a CAN BUS junction.

It only takes 8 keys at max.
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