Power hood missing a control arm?
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Power hood missing a control arm?
Hi all.
Wife's CLK W208 2002 has a problem where the soft top seems to have a broken control arm. It works perfectly up and down except it doesn't fold the hood at the start and end of the cycle so when opening it needs a shove to continue and on closing it's too straight and too far forward so smacks down on the windscreen top.
Hard to explain so I shot a short video and put on YouTube. Don't tell my wife my hands were really dirty when I used her car please.
All wisdom welcome.
Thanks.
[Edit had to re-upload the video because YouTube hates me]
Wife's CLK W208 2002 has a problem where the soft top seems to have a broken control arm. It works perfectly up and down except it doesn't fold the hood at the start and end of the cycle so when opening it needs a shove to continue and on closing it's too straight and too far forward so smacks down on the windscreen top.
Hard to explain so I shot a short video and put on YouTube. Don't tell my wife my hands were really dirty when I used her car please.
All wisdom welcome.
Thanks.
[Edit had to re-upload the video because YouTube hates me]
Last edited by CptToolTime; May 23, 2017 at 02:25 PM.
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Video confirms.......Broken tension cables.
See post 1 - 6 at https://mbworld.org/forums/clk-class...-problems.html
See post 1 - 6 at https://mbworld.org/forums/clk-class...-problems.html
