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WTB 88 300CE Seat Belt Presenters
Having trouble finding new ones without taking out a home equity loan. Any out there? Left and right.
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I never go far without a little Big Star 1994 E500 199/Gray 82k 84 300D (Salty) Orient Red/Palomino 141k 88 300CE (Ersatzhammer) 904/Java 163k -- Turbo Technics twin turbo kit, AMG Gen I body kit, Sportline steering box and steering wheel, Sportline/Eibach /Bilstein Sport/500E suspension, Quaife LSD in 210 mm diff case, Silver Arrow brakes. 88 300CE Brabus 3.6 199 on Black 44k |
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Can you clarify what you mean by presenter?
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In a pillarless coupe, the seat belt for the front passengers does not have a door column (as in a sedan) as an anchor point. Consequently, the belt must be anchored on the window bottom sill, somewhere behind the front passengers.
For most people it is a far reach to have to go "all" the way back to get the belt. M-B designed a seat belt "presenter" that extends out (when the doors are closed) and "presents" the belt to the front passengers. Think of Bruce Wayne's butler handing you the seatbelt each time you were ready to drive off in your coupe. It is a nice device, but when it breaks, it can be very costly to fix. It is always fun to watch first time passengers be surprised when the presenter comes out and hands them the seatbealt. Many people totally disable the presenter, thus avoiding expensive repairs. Personally, I like the presenter. When I drive any of my other cars I sit there for a few seconds waiting for the belt to come to me. Remote, if your presenter is not working, you may try taking a look at the link below and see if you can fix it. Go all the way down to item #25. Good luck. JimF's Page w/presenter repairs
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Interesting. I don't think mine are grinding, though. They are really not doing anything at all. One hums occassionally when you get in the car, but that is about it. I once stupidly took it to a dealer and asked them to look at it and tell me what needed to be done, and they of course called me an hour and a half later and told me both of the presenters and the relays needed to be replaced at a cost of about $2200. I laughed for a good long while. Then I found out the cost of buying just the presenters and how no one will ship them.
Anyway, I will open up one side and take a close look. I'll be delighted if it is the gears. Mark Quote:
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If your presenters occasionally hum (does it hum anything in particular?) you are at least getting some juice there. The fact that both are not working means (to me anyway) that there is some electrical problem keeping them from functioning correctly. This may sound too obvious, but have you checked the door contact switches? There are two contacts on each side door, one for the courtesy lights and one for the presenter. One day my left side presenter stopped working completely. I pulled out the switch, cleaned it and when I re-installed it the presenter worked again. I think that the contact switch for the courtesy lights is identical to the one for the presenter, how about switching them? I love the presenters, but if I had to dish out $2,200.00 to repair them, I would just have to do without. Like I wrote earlier, there are coupe owners who intentionally disabled the presenters. So go figure. I am having a similarly vexing electrical problem with my car. The lights for the mirror on the sun visors in my 300CE have stopped working (both side). I know the lights are good because I tested them on the 300TE. I cleaned out the contacts and still no light. Then one day I removed the floor mat and pad on the front passenger side to tidy up the wires from the installation of my new Alpine H/U. In the process I moved some wires around (from an alarm that the previous owner had installed and is now disabled) and when I looked up the lights from both sun visors mirros were working. I thought that I had somehow stumbled unpon a fix for the lights and I was real proud of myself. But then when I replaced the pad and floormat, the lights turned off again. I have no idea what I did to make the lights work and I have no idea what I did to make them stop working again. So now I just live w/o the vanity mirror lights...oh well. Good luck to you!
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Current Benzes 1989 300TE "Alice" 1990 300CE "Sam Spade" 1991 300CE "Beowulf" RIP (06.1991 - 10.10.2007) 1998 E320 "Orson" 2002 C320 Wagon "Molly Fox" Res non semper sunt quae esse videntur My Gallery Not in this weather! |
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I realize your original post is from 2008.....but (I'm new to the forum), if you still have the car, are still with the forum....I have a complete mint set with relays for sale inexpensively
David Dreisbord@aol.com |
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