This is a question that was prompted by being stranded last summer in my grandparents' Mercury, traveling with a co-worker who had AAA - but it took about half an hour to figure out where we were thoroughly enough to tell AAA how to find us, it was one of those "Middle of nowhere" situations.

I now have a GPS that can report (accurately, I assume) latitude and longitude of my current position. I'm assuming that MB uses a system similar to AAA if not the same system, to locate us all when we call in needing batteries and fuel and so forth. Does anybody know, through fact or experience, if I could call them and say "I'm on Road X, in Y state, and my coordinates are Lat by Long" and they could find me that way?

It seems like such a thing ought to be easily possible, but rarely do people have facilities for the things that I think sound easily possible

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~Michael S.~
Past cars:

1986 300SDL
1987 300SDL
1982 240D
1982 300SD


Current:

1987 300SDL

AAA is slow.. you're better off getting out a sextant and graphing the stars while they show up..

Well, I don't actually keep AAA, and you are correct. It took four hours to get help when that problem occurred.... Mercury never notified them that there was a recall on some part of their engine intake... which was made of plastic... and predictably it cracked while a co-worker and I were at least three hours away from home. Lost all the antifreeze. Had to eventually let it cool, limp it, let it cool, limp it... about four times until we found a gas station to give AAA our address. We knew what road and what town but that wasn't good enough for them. Thus, I'm wondering if my GPS will save me that hassle with MB next time if it's my car.

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~Michael S.~
Past cars:

1986 300SDL
1987 300SDL
1982 240D
1982 300SD


Current:

1987 300SDL

I speculate it would work, since the location finding part of the TeleAid system in my 210 is GPS based.

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2002 E320 4-Matic
2008 Subaru Outback
2009 Subaru Forester

Though technically and theoretically this could work, one wonders about the intelligence of the people handling this information, and how this would pan out in real situations.

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95 E320 Cabriolet, 159K