Long shot: Anyone have a STAR DAS I could use in ATX?
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2004 CLK55 AMG
Long shot: Anyone have a STAR DAS I could use in ATX?
Hey there!
im the proud owner of a new (to me) AMG. It’s a 2004 CLK55 Cabriolet.
I’ve read up on a couple of issues regarding the SOS/SRS/Tele Aid problem, and so I’ll be checking the normal culprits for that this coming weekend, but I accidentally pressed the (non functioning) SOS button on the dome cluster, and it keeps trying to connect a (non existent) phone. Looks like the people before me accidentally ripped out the center console harness that connects to the information/service call button.
I’ve read that there may be a workaround fix to disable Tele Aid completely by switching it to “not present” using a STAR DAS. I’d like to try it and see if it disables this connecting to service loop.
Has anyone done this successfully? If so, let me know. Like I mentioned in the title, I want to take a chance on there being someone in Austin that has one on the off-chance I could use it.
Many thanks!
P.S; here is the article I pulled the information from (as well as these forums):
http://www.mercedesmedic.com/teleaid...s-bnez-solved/
im the proud owner of a new (to me) AMG. It’s a 2004 CLK55 Cabriolet.
I’ve read up on a couple of issues regarding the SOS/SRS/Tele Aid problem, and so I’ll be checking the normal culprits for that this coming weekend, but I accidentally pressed the (non functioning) SOS button on the dome cluster, and it keeps trying to connect a (non existent) phone. Looks like the people before me accidentally ripped out the center console harness that connects to the information/service call button.
I’ve read that there may be a workaround fix to disable Tele Aid completely by switching it to “not present” using a STAR DAS. I’d like to try it and see if it disables this connecting to service loop.
Has anyone done this successfully? If so, let me know. Like I mentioned in the title, I want to take a chance on there being someone in Austin that has one on the off-chance I could use it.
Many thanks!
P.S; here is the article I pulled the information from (as well as these forums):
http://www.mercedesmedic.com/teleaid...s-bnez-solved/
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Hi Bill - ATX is Austin, Texas. I should have clarified.
I would pay shipping here and back if you were to let me use it. I’m not sure what collateral you would require, but it would help me out a lot - the Tele Aid problem has been driving me crazy.
In a new turn of events, I found that the issue can be “jump started” by turning off the lights of the car - which tells me this problem may be more electrical than I thought originally - but it can’t hurt to check.
Not having too much luck here, hope you have more good fortune than I do in figuring out how to use your DAS!
Best,
04AMG
I would pay shipping here and back if you were to let me use it. I’m not sure what collateral you would require, but it would help me out a lot - the Tele Aid problem has been driving me crazy.
In a new turn of events, I found that the issue can be “jump started” by turning off the lights of the car - which tells me this problem may be more electrical than I thought originally - but it can’t hurt to check.
Not having too much luck here, hope you have more good fortune than I do in figuring out how to use your DAS!
Best,
04AMG
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Hi Bill - ATX is Austin, Texas. I should have clarified.
I would pay shipping here and back if you were to let me use it. I’m not sure what collateral you would require, but it would help me out a lot - the Tele Aid problem has been driving me crazy.
In a new turn of events, I found that the issue can be “jump started” by turning off the lights of the car - which tells me this problem may be more electrical than I thought originally - but it can’t hurt to check.
Not having too much luck here, hope you have more good fortune than I do in figuring out how to use your DAS!
Best,
04AMG
you can probably still buy these on alibaba.com for $500 to $1000 free shipping..
maybe there are newer versions that run win 10 rather than win XP..
if i were you i would do the drive to the fellow there in texas..
and for myself, the cellular thing in older mercedes is something i would not try to use..
the navigator in my '06 SL55 is so lame i can't believe it..
why mercedes does NOT contract with garmin to make a cheap and easily upgrade-able nav system i do not know..
good luck with that..
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I just wanted to post a quick update to this.
Bbirdwell and I got my Tele Aid problem to go away, but it was in a roundabout way - I learned a TON about the history of my car as well - very cool! The source of my problem was a defective SOS switch in my dome controls - it was constantly telling the computer I was calling for help. Like I mentioned, it could be “kickstarted” into calling by turning the lights on and off - curious. One thing to note was that I was able to kill the Tele Aid alarm with the “call pickup/hangup” buttons on the steering wheel. Important note.
Anyway, you can go into the car and tell it not to recognize Tele Aid in the dashboard indicator by turning it into “NOT PRESENT”.
At this point your clock will start going crazy (backwards) doing what I can only assume is communicating with a satellite and setting itself beaded off of GMT and correcting based on your position and time zone. We (me) started freaking out when it started.
Once we switched the Tele Aid off, we unplugged and away I went, or so I thought, because the Tele Aid alarm started going off as I was going down the driveway, except this time there was nothing I could do to turn it off. So it went off about 30 seconds and then turned itself off - super annoying.
We pulled it back in and I had to debate on whether I could live with the 2 malfunctions it was throwing in trade for being able to silence the alarm. As a last ditch effort I decided to see if there was a fuse for Tele Aid and pull it. Turns out there is! I’ll have to the fuse sheet for exact numbers but I do remember it’s in the drivers side interior fuse box, and it’s third from the bottom with a pink clip holding it in.
With that, my “Tele Aid” and “SOS” malfunctions have disappeared from the instrument cluster and my alarm isn’t going off any time I turn the car off or on.
Hope this helps anyone in the future - in short: find someone awesome (thanks again birdwell, seriously) who will walk you through using the STAR DAS, set Tele Aid to “NOT PRESENT”, and pull the Tele Aid fuse for no more roadside assistance alarm.
Bbirdwell and I got my Tele Aid problem to go away, but it was in a roundabout way - I learned a TON about the history of my car as well - very cool! The source of my problem was a defective SOS switch in my dome controls - it was constantly telling the computer I was calling for help. Like I mentioned, it could be “kickstarted” into calling by turning the lights on and off - curious. One thing to note was that I was able to kill the Tele Aid alarm with the “call pickup/hangup” buttons on the steering wheel. Important note.
Anyway, you can go into the car and tell it not to recognize Tele Aid in the dashboard indicator by turning it into “NOT PRESENT”.
At this point your clock will start going crazy (backwards) doing what I can only assume is communicating with a satellite and setting itself beaded off of GMT and correcting based on your position and time zone. We (me) started freaking out when it started.
Once we switched the Tele Aid off, we unplugged and away I went, or so I thought, because the Tele Aid alarm started going off as I was going down the driveway, except this time there was nothing I could do to turn it off. So it went off about 30 seconds and then turned itself off - super annoying.
We pulled it back in and I had to debate on whether I could live with the 2 malfunctions it was throwing in trade for being able to silence the alarm. As a last ditch effort I decided to see if there was a fuse for Tele Aid and pull it. Turns out there is! I’ll have to the fuse sheet for exact numbers but I do remember it’s in the drivers side interior fuse box, and it’s third from the bottom with a pink clip holding it in.
With that, my “Tele Aid” and “SOS” malfunctions have disappeared from the instrument cluster and my alarm isn’t going off any time I turn the car off or on.
Hope this helps anyone in the future - in short: find someone awesome (thanks again birdwell, seriously) who will walk you through using the STAR DAS, set Tele Aid to “NOT PRESENT”, and pull the Tele Aid fuse for no more roadside assistance alarm.
