MB german engineers have a sick sense of humor- rant- try jumpstart from engine bay
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MB german engineers have a sick sense of humor- rant- try jumpstart from engine bay
Has anyone try to jumpstart a w211 E350 2008 when they cant get into the trunk? Apparently the jump point in the engine bay is a positive terminal at the back of the fuse box. Have any of these muthafffng factory engineers try to get a jumper cable clamp on that deeply recess nut with no extended lug point to attach to??????
I tried for over 10 minutes and could not find a way to clamp onto that goddamn nut!!!!!!! Those damn germans have a sick sense of humor.
Luckily I came to senses and used manual key from the fob to open the trunk for acces to battery.
I tried for over 10 minutes and could not find a way to clamp onto that goddamn nut!!!!!!! Those damn germans have a sick sense of humor.
Luckily I came to senses and used manual key from the fob to open the trunk for acces to battery.
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The one in the fusebox is not accessible by any sort of standard cable.
I end up taking the passenger side floor board apart and jumping from the battery cable junction block there in order to get the trunk to pop (I dont have a valet key so cant open the trunk manually)
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Worst case is if you have to use the bolt you described, attach a socket and extension to it (making sure that socket setup doesn't come into contact with anything else) then use that as the point to connect your jumper cables.
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I’d have to look for the video, but I saw something I had never seen before the other day for someone trying to get into a car with a dead battery. The gentleman was first going to try and get a lead on the alternator because this would connect to the battery But since they could not reach the alternator from underneath, they just sent 12 V in through the fog light and the 12 V in the fog light gave the battery enough power to open the door.
for those of us that watch a lot of mechanical videos and what not, this was truly the first time I had seen this.
This was on a Mercedes of the same vintage
for those of us that watch a lot of mechanical videos and what not, this was truly the first time I had seen this.
This was on a Mercedes of the same vintage
