Greetings Forum Members,

I'ld like to start off reporting that I recently purchased a 1997 E420, 118K miles from an indy dealer, clean carfax very limited service records. I hope that the PO will be able to provide me with more information. The production date is very late in the model year, November 1997.
Based on reading various trany threads I'm led to beleive that Mercedes had resolved the earlier 722.6 transmission shift module issues by then.
Thanks to this form and an Alldata subscription I have repaired the instrument cluster lighting problems.
The car passed the Mass state inspection even though there was a small crack in an exhaust pipe that I had welded for $30.00. The center and rear mufflers are new.
I'm pleased to say that the car averaged 26.5 MPG on a 280 mile highway run from MA to NJ this past weekend.
Besides some annoying surface rust issues that will be delt with later there are 2 pending issues that I would like to take care of soon;
1. The dealer replaced the windshield and I'm pretty sure that the windshield antenna was not reconnected to the radio. No AM reception and FM reception in horrible. Where should I look for the Antenna connection from the winshield ?
2. The AC does not work. I tried to charge the system and as soon as the pressure builds and the compressor kicks on all the R134 blows out!
What does that sound like the problem could be, bad high pressure hose?
By the way that engine bay is quite tight to work in.
Any help with these matters would be most appreciated.

Knarf

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