hey guys im taking my dad n my little sisters to my aunts funeral first thing tommrow morin i was just cleaning my 300e when i moved the passenger seat forward to vaccum the switch got stuck forward and the seat is now stuck all the way in the front i cant even get in everything works from the headrest on it just wont go backwards is there any manual way that i can get the seat back without tearing apart the door, if not where do i start???

 

Yeah, any help on this would be great. My seat is stuck forward with all the controls working great except the one that slides the seat back.

 

ok well i messin around after i calmed down n i pretty sure the switch on the door panel is faulty i can hear the motor try to go forward when i push the switch forward but ther is no noise wen i try to push it back the seat is all the way forward which im sure y it will no longer move... does anyone have directions on how to take apart the door panel so i can acess the wires for the switch so i can atleast jump it and slide the seat backward

 

see if you can get just the switch and the plate off.
honestly not sure, but that would be were id start.

the connection may have gotten loose or just got messed up.

http://www.mercedesshop.com/Wikka/W124DoorPanel

this might help if you do HAVE to remove the door pannel.



Good luck!!!!

 

toggle it back and forth quickly flicking the seat switch sometimes that works

 

This is why i hate all things with Electric Motors in Cars

You Cant beat a Manuel Handle

Hope you get it fixed

 

It's your Switch not the motor.

SAME thing happened to me while my dad was deliberatly trying to crush my brother's knee one day.

I tried cutting corners by going with a switch (saving money on the motor) and much to my surprise all is back to normal!



EDIT: THERE IS NO NEED TO REMOVE THE DOOR PANEL.

 

POST a DIY Shadow, or ban.

 

actullay it was both the switch is alittle trippy but the reason it wouldnt go back was my dad found a bunch of **** in the tracks he cleaned it n now it works cept for sometimes it decides to keep going after u hit the switch but i can live with that until iget some $ 4 tha switch.
P.S why are them door panel so cheesie they seem to never go on right after u take them off same thing happened with back door when my regulator went.

 

No need to take the door panel off, as shadow said.

step 1: pull the knobs for the buttons off. Don't worry you won't break them.

step 2: take a flat- head screwdriver and carefully pry the trim panels off

step 3: should be pretty obvious which screws/wires to remove to get the unit out of the door. Take care not to drop any screws into the door panel, or you WILL be taking the panel off.

Step 4: get some electrical contact cleaner. Comes in a spray can. you can get it at radioshack. Also get some tweezers, a small container to hold tiny little springs and ball bearings, a good lamp, some q-tips, and some paper towels.

Step 5: sit at your kitchen table with all the sh*t I just rattled off in step 4. Very carefully remove the screw (I think there's just one) on the face of the unit and pry the thing apart. Make sure to keep the unit as flat as possible on the table (with the prongs/switch lever thingies pointed toward the ceiling). There are many little tiny springs and ball bearings in there that will fall out if you're not careful... if you lose too many of them you'll be buying a new switch.

Step 6: Carefully examine how the mechanism works, where the springs and ball bearings go. Once you understand how one of the switches work, you'll understand the rest. It's actually a pretty fascinating and logical little gadget. Use the tweezers to remove the springs and ball bearings and put them in a container of some kind for safe-keeping.

Step 7: use the contact cleaner, paper towels, q-tips, etc to clean off all of the contact points. get them good and shiny.

Step 8: reassemble.

After I did this, it fixed my seat problems completely. nice little 2 hour project. I posted a much more detailed DIY on mercedesshop under the same screenname (Bigpete123) if you need more info.

Don't buy a new switch until you try this. It only costs like $5-10 to fix.