Customer care says give it 6 months and call back, that is their recommended course of action. You're suggesting call MBUSA and tell them they can charge my card for $300 or so and that will help them procure a new supplier? Yeah, ok.

The solution IS to complain, loudly. Do you need keys? Probably not. The car brand with the single-biggest claim to legacy-model support can;t even get a f*cking key for a 20 year old model? And that's not a big deal? Not worth complaining about?

This applies to 129s as well, anything post-96 with the IR key that runs off a transponder. Hundreds of thousands of cars.

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former: 83 300D, 97 C230, 93 400E

current: 08 C300 Luxury , 92 500SL