1999 Mercedes w210 E320 Nothing happens when I turn the key
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2002 C320 wagon, 2000 E320 4matic wagon
1999 Mercedes w210 E320 Nothing happens when I turn the key
Ok so got this 1999 E320. The girl i got it from drove it for a while (I’ve seen her up and down the highway many times) then she said it wouldn’t start because she couldn’t turn the key. So while it was sitting her “friends” tried to work on it and that’s when I ran into her and ended up getting the car.
I have no idea what the “friends” did so I just did what I thought I should do and that was first since the key wouldn’t turn I got a new battery for the car. Then I remembered NO KEY. So I luckily I had 3 sets of keys with matching EIS, and ECU. Plus two emulators in stock. So I replaced the bad ones with one of the good ones. Boom
everything works with the key EXCEPT when I turn the key to position 3, NOTHING happens. Like NOTHING.
I can get the car to crank from the K-40 relay by jumping the purple wire and the black/yellow wire but it won’t start. Makes me think Immobilizer. I left my scanner in Corpus when I took the bus back to Austin the day after my car was stolen so I didn’t have a lot of bags to travel with.
Any ideas that I can check out before I can get the scanner on it?
I have no idea what the “friends” did so I just did what I thought I should do and that was first since the key wouldn’t turn I got a new battery for the car. Then I remembered NO KEY. So I luckily I had 3 sets of keys with matching EIS, and ECU. Plus two emulators in stock. So I replaced the bad ones with one of the good ones. Boom
everything works with the key EXCEPT when I turn the key to position 3, NOTHING happens. Like NOTHING.
I can get the car to crank from the K-40 relay by jumping the purple wire and the black/yellow wire but it won’t start. Makes me think Immobilizer. I left my scanner in Corpus when I took the bus back to Austin the day after my car was stolen so I didn’t have a lot of bags to travel with.
Any ideas that I can check out before I can get the scanner on it?
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2002 C320 wagon, 2000 E320 4matic wagon
anyway, the EIS was replaced with a working EIS AND WORKING KEY.
now what
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Also I’ve used emulators multiple times and always have some in stock. They have never ever failed on any model Mercedes Benz.
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Ok so got this 1999 E320. The girl i got it from drove it for a while (I’ve seen her up and down the highway many times) then she said it wouldn’t start because she couldn’t turn the key. So while it was sitting her “friends” tried to work on it and that’s when I ran into her and ended up getting the car.
I have no idea what the “friends” did so I just did what I thought I should do and that was first since the key wouldn’t turn I got a new battery for the car. Then I remembered NO KEY. So I luckily I had 3 sets of keys with matching EIS, and ECU. Plus two emulators in stock. So I replaced the bad ones with one of the good ones. Boom
everything works with the key EXCEPT when I turn the key to position 3, NOTHING happens. Like NOTHING.
I can get the car to crank from the K-40 relay by jumping the purple wire and the black/yellow wire but it won’t start. Makes me think Immobilizer. I left my scanner in Corpus when I took the bus back to Austin the day after my car was stolen so I didn’t have a lot of bags to travel with.
Any ideas that I can check out before I can get the scanner on it?
I have no idea what the “friends” did so I just did what I thought I should do and that was first since the key wouldn’t turn I got a new battery for the car. Then I remembered NO KEY. So I luckily I had 3 sets of keys with matching EIS, and ECU. Plus two emulators in stock. So I replaced the bad ones with one of the good ones. Boom
everything works with the key EXCEPT when I turn the key to position 3, NOTHING happens. Like NOTHING.
I can get the car to crank from the K-40 relay by jumping the purple wire and the black/yellow wire but it won’t start. Makes me think Immobilizer. I left my scanner in Corpus when I took the bus back to Austin the day after my car was stolen so I didn’t have a lot of bags to travel with.
Any ideas that I can check out before I can get the scanner on it?
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