E500 seats not moving
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E500 seats not moving
Hey guys how r u i had problem with my car e500 w211 the driver seat and passenger driver seat does not move at all and the steering adjustment any one can tell me what's the problem exactly
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First disconnect the battery (most likely in the truck) and leave it disconnected for 30 mins. Then reconnect it - that may reset the seat modules if something wacked happen in your electrical system.
While the battery is disconnect, look at the fuse chart in both the front engine and trunk and test the fuses. Might be a good idea to just pull every single one at a time, test, reinsert, to give you a known setup. Interestingly we did that on my daughters car when we first bought it used and found one of the fuses was missing and one was the incorrect amps. Good time to do this.
Third - might be a good idea to just completely pull the battery and run it over to most autoparts stores and ask them to test the battery (if you don't have a battery load tester). A low battery can do all kinds of strange things to the computer modules.
If fuses are good and battery are good now starts the hard and potentially expensive part.
Your car has two seat modules, one for each seat. They are independent. So for both to go out - that points to something that can effect both systems. Since you ruled out both fuses and battery I would in the back of my mind be thinking about a CAN bus short or some sort of wiring power issues. But everything is a guess at this point - you need to use a good scan tool to read the ESA modules and see what they are reporting. If you don't have access to this kind of tool, plan on paying something that is a MB specialist a diagnostics fee to give you an idea of what you are dealing with.
Good luck.
While the battery is disconnect, look at the fuse chart in both the front engine and trunk and test the fuses. Might be a good idea to just pull every single one at a time, test, reinsert, to give you a known setup. Interestingly we did that on my daughters car when we first bought it used and found one of the fuses was missing and one was the incorrect amps. Good time to do this.
Third - might be a good idea to just completely pull the battery and run it over to most autoparts stores and ask them to test the battery (if you don't have a battery load tester). A low battery can do all kinds of strange things to the computer modules.
If fuses are good and battery are good now starts the hard and potentially expensive part.
Your car has two seat modules, one for each seat. They are independent. So for both to go out - that points to something that can effect both systems. Since you ruled out both fuses and battery I would in the back of my mind be thinking about a CAN bus short or some sort of wiring power issues. But everything is a guess at this point - you need to use a good scan tool to read the ESA modules and see what they are reporting. If you don't have access to this kind of tool, plan on paying something that is a MB specialist a diagnostics fee to give you an idea of what you are dealing with.
Good luck.
