Valet Keys
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2001 SL500, 2001 CLK55
Valet Keys
Just bought a used 2001 SL500. Salesman tells me that MB quit delivering these cars with a valet key. Can anybody confirm?
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2001 SL 500
Liar Liar pants on fire
Originally Posted by direk
Just bought a used 2001 SL500. Salesman tells me that MB quit delivering these cars with a valet key. Can anybody confirm?
Thanks!
Thanks!
Good choice of wheels
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Originally Posted by direk
Just bought a used 2001 SL500. Salesman tells me that MB quit delivering these cars with a valet key. Can anybody confirm?
Thanks!
Thanks!
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Early 2001 models came with a valet. Until the US government passed a law to protect people from getting locked in the trunk by carjackers.
Open your trunk and look at the inside of the lid. Do you see a blinking green button? If yes, that is the trunk release button. If you have it, you CANNOT have a valet key/valet lock.
Know the facts before you guys think your dealer is BSing you
Open your trunk and look at the inside of the lid. Do you see a blinking green button? If yes, that is the trunk release button. If you have it, you CANNOT have a valet key/valet lock.
Know the facts before you guys think your dealer is BSing you
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#6
Are you referring to your metal key blade as a valet key?
If yes, that is not the valet key. It is a backup key to get into the car
when either the remote fails or the car battery dies. It will not start the car
or turn the ignition switch/EIS.
The real valet key on 2000 [very early 2001] and back cars allowed you
to physically lock the trunk and then you could give the remote minus the blade key to a valet.
Try physically locking your trunk lid [IF you have the blinking green button
on the inside of your trunk lid] with the blade key while turning it left.
If yes, that is not the valet key. It is a backup key to get into the car
when either the remote fails or the car battery dies. It will not start the car
or turn the ignition switch/EIS.
The real valet key on 2000 [very early 2001] and back cars allowed you
to physically lock the trunk and then you could give the remote minus the blade key to a valet.
Try physically locking your trunk lid [IF you have the blinking green button
on the inside of your trunk lid] with the blade key while turning it left.
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2001 SL 500
Originally Posted by Karl
Are you referring to your metal key blade as a valet key?
If yes, that is not the valet key. It is a backup key to get into the car
when either the remote fails or the car battery dies. It will not start the car
or turn the ignition switch/EIS.
If yes, that is not the valet key. It is a backup key to get into the car
when either the remote fails or the car battery dies. It will not start the car
or turn the ignition switch/EIS.