mwillems

Oops. My E320 is in the shop again: radio erratic, TELE AID malfunction, and SRS Malfunction.

The dealer has ordered another unit and I get to wait - hopefully just a few days.

The latest in many little glitches. Hope MB sort out the reliability of the electronics!

Michael

marksatex

May I ask what is the date of your build?

sf49ers79

are they giving you a new car or they just try to fix all of those?

speedye500

my car has been in the shop 10 times or more. i have started to think it is my home away from home.

pogotango

i got that malfunction once, but it went away, my car is in the shop to for electric consumer malfunction, and my keyless go. they said they have to replace the whole keyless module or something somethign, 4+ days now

NavNut

Speaking from experience, I would highly recommend that IF your car trips the CA lemon laws, you SHOULD take advantage of them... I had decided not to press the issue, because of the hassle involved, but in retrospect, I should have.

Last I checked, the lemon laws in California went along the lines of something like:

If you bring the car in for the same problem four times within the year, and they still cannot fix the problem, OR if you bring your car in for various different items for more than 30 days out of the year, you have tripped the lemon law. By law, they have to buy the car back from you (or give you a new replacement car).

Of course it may not necessarily be easy... you may have to get a lawyer and it's a hassle. In retrospect, I should have done it. It's far worse to think, "Just one more problem and it'll be fixed..." and then you end up out of warranty, with a car that continues to have problems, and the time to turn it in has passed, and you have no recourse, and only repair bills in the five-figure range... or the option of just writing off the rest of the car... it's ugly.

My advice: check the laws and use them the second they apply.

Who knows? You might have an experience like the one I heard about with the guy with the 745 Bimmer... It had so many problems that he didn't even have to ask... his dealer told him to return the car and they would give him back his money. They even told him to buy a different car because they had no confidence that a new 745 would be any better... Now that's impressive service. You know what? He'll probably go back to them after they work the problems out.

-NavNut

sf49ers79

Lucky for me... i only got the mounting problem ever since i have the car.. and rite now its running real smooht.. hopefully no more problem

muhri

I got that a couple of days ago but it went away then, my car is a sept 2002 build with the latest flash updates.. will see if it comes up again! mwilliams, did you get your SRS unit replaced before?

mwillems

Mine is also Sept 2002 and yes, I did get that module replaced before, as well as the radio module. Don't really mind as I am assuming they get more reliable, but I will sure want this to all be fixed by the time the warranty runs out! :-)

Meanwhile I drive without airbags. Replacement module tomorrow (after I called MB - at first I was told Friday).

Mike

marc777

I was told NOT to use the car with the SRS warning. The dealer was concerned the airbags could activate themeselves for no reason.

You may want to take advice on this.

I had the SRS unti replaced October (mine is a September build) and have had the warning twice since but it goes away on restarting the car.

Marc

muhri

I was told the same thing that if I get the warning I should immediately take it to the shop but the foreman told me they did the update so I should not. However, I did get it for like 5 minutes then after restarting it went away, I kept driving and so far for 3 days after the incident I didn't get it again. If it comes back again, I'm surely taking it to the shop.

mwillems

In my case, the warning did not go away.

I would have preferred to not drive it, but Meray had no replacement cars available, and MB Canada also did not seem to think it was their problem.

Anyway, the car is now at the dealer's again having the module replaced.

Michael

ctouhey

August 2002 build. Got the SRS warning for the first time in Dec. (twice). First time it went away before I got home (late evening). My Service Advisor said just bring it by anytime it happened with no appointment so they could see it. It happend again (going fast over a rough road) and was still there the next morning. Went away while driving to the dealership, so I just went to work.

It's been quiet until last week, when it happend 3 times, lasting less than 10 minutes each time. I noticed that the first instance happend immediately after I went over some railroad tracks without slowing down much. (I rarely do this.)

That's a pretty limited sample, but I swear I think it's some type of short somewhere. Hopefully it'll hold out until the replacement vehicle gets here.

pogotango

well i wish i knew when my car was built, but my car is still in the shop, been a week now.

pogotango

but like i said before, that warning came on once, that would be cook if the airbags just opend.

cyeung65

Does anyone have this problem with a newer build date? I have an E500 coming in June '03 - hope this got corrected.

pogotango

mine is sept date too, it came on once, should i go fix it?