Cool. It doesn't look mercedes to me (single phillips head sheet metal screw to the sheet metal) either but I've only spent about an hour under the hood of one mercedes that I just bought on Wed. so my experience is shall we say...limited...When I bought my 67 Landrover 10 or so years ago the first thing I did was remove old non-stock security stuff.....I amnot exagerating to say that I had a grocery bag full of mercury switches, wire,a siren, door switches, a paging system.....Thanks for the info...I'm convined to try and run the car with it removed....Rob Mconcord,MA '85 300D