Remember when the press used to rag Mercedes about the manually adjustable LH outside mirror back in the eighties. Mercedes said that a manual adjustment worked just fine, and they were right. Ironically, the mechanism on mine was alway stiff and it finally broke. It may not have been lubricated properly when assembled.

I found a mirror from a wreck for nothing, removed the adjusting mechanism, cleaned and lubricated it, and installed in in my mirror. It's worked fine ever since.

Back then Mercedes motto was "engineered like no other car in the world", and I think it was a valid claim.

Now they show ads with dragons jumping out of the engine compartment. Who are they trying to sell these cars to? Go figure!

Duke