No, just open the doors and you'll see the bolt on one end of the door. Depending on the year of your car it will either be a Torx T20 or 8mm bolt. You can see where it goes from looking at your doors now and seeing the round hole(where the bolt was supposed to go through.

 

Oxygen,

Sorry to hear about your situation. That is sad to see such a nice vehicle stripped like that. I suspect that you are dealing with individuals who are quite skilled with the hands and tools. Situation awareness is the key, and I trust that a clue or clues will surface as per who is responsible.

Big "H"

 

Hmm Do you have Wheel locks? Is that what saved your rims?

 

It was the tow alarm. If you try to jack the car up the alarm would go off. They obviously knew that. The car was about 2 feet away from the house. I don't know if you've ever heard your alarm, but it's pretty loud!

 

The only clue I have so far is that a person or people were actually inside the car, they were able to unlock the doors, turn off the alarm, do their thing and then lock the car and activate the alarm.

 

That's scary, I think you should just keep a look out for suspicious activity for the next few days, you never know with people like this.

 

Okay that doesn;t make any sense. THat can only be done wth a key. or in your case a KG code. Your camp is dirty bro!! Plus think about it.. you said they didn;t take the wheels because of the alarm.. WTF?? IF they got the car open, the wheels and anything else was there for the taking and all they took off was some molding?? C'mon dude.

did you call the cops? have the car dusted?

Again,, you got some dirt on your shoulder..

 

Excellent point!!!!!!!!

 

That's scary. Without sounding dumb how did you figure they'd been inside the car?

It does seem weird though, if they were inside the car and nicked some pretty worthless (by all accounts) moulding!

So, short of smashing the window, it isn't possible to break into an S Class without a key?

 

if that was the case wouldn't most of your interior IE navigation, steering wheel...etc. be stolen from inside the car...now this is not making any sense?

 

And locking it back when you leave?? WTF kinda thief does that?

I smell fish and it aint even friday!!!

 

Well let's not get ahead of ourselves here...

I am going by what moparrbust said in his post... He said that the only way to slide out the door moldings is by taking out a screw at the end of each door.

As soon as I read that I went to my car and checked, I saw exactly what he was talking about. If you open your door on the rear facing side you'll see a screw, on all 4 doors. So, to take the molding out you need to remove the screw or pry the molding away from the door and break the plastic on the molding where the screw is - which is makes no sense because why steal it if you can't use it?

Well, there are NO SCREWS anywhere inside the car. I looked with the interior lights, I got a flash light, got a magnet and I found now screws.

As I said earlier, I was away on business in a rental car. As soon as I pulled up and saw my car I jumped out and went to open the door - it was locked. I checked to see if I had all 4 rims and I did. I looked inside the car the red light on the lock button was blinking as it always does.

I went in my house and grabbed the key, opened the car expecting to see my dashboard ripped to pieces and the COMAND ripped out but to my surprise everything was intact.

The only fishy thing that I spotted was that my center console was open on both sides, but I might have left it like that when I was getting my sun glasses before leaving.

I called the police, they came 45 minutes later, nasty attitude, walked around the car, wrote up a report. Told me that I should not be surprise that he can't really help me beyond that. I filed a claim with insurance.

In rage I pretty much threw most of the contractors tools/wood/beams/boxes across the garage and promptly moved my car in the garage where it's been ever since.

 

Don't do that. Replace all the moldings and pieces and park her back outside. Equip outside perimeter with cameras. Buy shotguns.

 

Did you by any chance **** off your contractor?

 

Texans...

 

+1!!

I've got an FNH SLP for sale if you need one!

 

Hey hey.. whatch it.. That's how we roll down here!! LOL

 

Evidence:

They knew you were not home.
They knew your car was not in the garage.
The contractors have access to the house.
They were able to get inside the car.
Noone heard the alarm.
The keys were in the house.

INSIDE JOB.

 

sucks to hear that, always loved your car man.

 

Looks like you pissed off your contractors or they knew of someone who needed them. And yes majority of cops are a-holes when it comes to break ins. your car is nice and all and the moldings will actually fit on any W220 in references to maxamillion. I don't think they wanted everything only to **** you off because everything would've been gone IMP.

 

I never leave the key in my house on me at all times!

 

 

Oxygen so whats up so far with getting the parts back on the car . did you file a claim or ur buying out of pocket ?

 

I've heard of techno wizards using laptops to open keyless entry cars and even cranking them up. Does your contractor happen to have a laptop in his truck/van? How many work with him and what are their ages?

 

I suspect that time will time what really happened. Bottom line up front it could be worst.

Big "H"