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Old Dec 3, 2008 | 03:00 PM
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If it's not fuses or seat relay then WHAT!!

I've been fighting with my power seats for 3 days now! Seat will not move front/back, all other functions work. I'd like to go to work this week but since my gf drove my car intead of hers I can't get the seat back. This has happened before and it magically fixed itself but now I can't even fit in the car. The searches I've done have sent me everywhere but to a solution. Is there a relay in the dash? If you remove a relay, the element shouldn't function, right? I've removed them all and the seats still function. Frustrated beyond belief! It's a 2002 C320 wagon, help!!
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Old Dec 3, 2008 | 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by jbstudios
I've been fighting with my power seats for 3 days now! Seat will not move front/back, all other functions work. I'd like to go to work this week but since my gf drove my car intead of hers I can't get the seat back. This has happened before and it magically fixed itself but now I can't even fit in the car. The searches I've done have sent me everywhere but to a solution. Is there a relay in the dash? If you remove a relay, the element shouldn't function, right? I've removed them all and the seats still function. Frustrated beyond belief! It's a 2002 C320 wagon, help!!

Ok, since no one wants to answer him (justifiably), I will.

The button on the seats controll everything EXCEPT the moving from front to back. This is manual.

Sitting in the drivers seat, look under your right leg below the seat next to the senter console. There is a lever there. Just like other cars that you have to manually move. Same goes with the passenger seat.

(I can't believe i'm typing this.)
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Old Dec 3, 2008 | 06:00 PM
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I really doubt anyone can be that stupid. He probably has memory seats and the motor that moves the seat forward/back is toast or has a bad connection.
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Old Dec 3, 2008 | 06:30 PM
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The seat controller modules do fail,, there is a fuse for the seats,, look on the fuse chart
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Old Dec 3, 2008 | 06:58 PM
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My bad. He has a C320. I saw that as a C230. I'm not sure how the C320 works with that regard.

Edit: In my defense, when I first got my C230, i thought it would have a button for that and not a manual knob, but i learned that quickly (within a few seconds).
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Old Dec 3, 2008 | 07:03 PM
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I found a thread that might help you

https://mbworld.org/forums/mercedes-...l-problem.html
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