Gatercedes

When you remove the little silver valet key, the valet parker has no way to hang your key up with the others because the key ring part goes away. What's up with that?

e1000

since you have a W204, you should have the new style "Chrome" key. A tiny loop appears when you remove the key blade.

it was much worse in the previous smart key. Once the blad was removed, there wasn't even a loop anywhere on the smart key

Gatercedes

not sure where you see a loop.

MBTex

Just checked mine and I see no loop either.

vb26

tell the valet to use a rubber band and throw em couple bucks extra next time

e1000

sorry for the terrible pic

MBTex

Not sure I can see the pic too well, but it appears that the "little key" is still in there. What does it look like when you take it out?

chilledbenz

Um..he is thinking that the key you remove is the valet key and its not..thats the key you take with you. The valet key is the actual key, you remove the blade key and take that with you. You can't start the car with the blade key, you can just lock the glove box. The first poster is correct, this is a very bad design considering a lot of Benz owners probably use valet.

MBTex

OK, good. I was starting to think that I have the wrong key.

Savage c-300

yea, no loop either, that must be the blade still in the fob.

MBTex

And your sig pic makes my @#$% get just a bit smaller each time I see it.

e1000

that is my key with the blade taken out

MBTex

Oh. Ok, well mine doesn't have a hook when the blade comes out.

e1000

WTF - i thought that was the coolest feature of the new key!!!!!!!

Savage c-300

what the heck! i dont have a loop. is it for the c350 only or something?

e1000

I dunno, this is a key I ordered through OEMPartsDirect since my car is a 2006. The coolest feature is that the little loop goes inside the key and is hidden when the blade is stuck back in.

Savage c-300

ok that explains it, no wonder none of ours came with it from the dealership. im jealous.

Hazemonster

Dude...are you messing with us?

I can clearly see that the blade (valet key) is in there. You can see the ridge that is the top of the valet key. How about some clear shots of the key with the blade in...and out....just for clarification?

If it is true....I want to find out why no one else here has that key.

Star & Laurel

He is right, there were some older Smart Keys that had the small loop that would appear when the key blade was removed. But this was changed, and now the loop is no longer supplied by MB in the US. Not sure about other countries.

As stated earlier have the valet use a rubber band. That is what I did when I used to valet

ManchesterMerc

Not supplied in UK either

Derspeed

This is frustrating. I'll take pics later today. In and out. If someone beats me to it, all the better.

e1000

I can absolutely, positively confirm that there are 2 versions of the chrome smart key. One that has a little metal loop that appears when the blade key is taken out, and one that dosen't have it.

RLE

<< this is a very bad design considering a lot of Benz owners probably use valet.>>

Not me. If my car is going to be abused, smoked in, doors dinged up etc, I will do it.

jo17jC230

+1... I had ordered the chrome smart key from oempartsdirect before as well when I had my 203 and confirm that version had the metal loop when the blade key is taken out.

Why MB took that out on the new keys is stupid.

Here's a pic I found from another thread that shows the loop more clearly.

broke_R

who in their right mind uses a valet anyways