Well, the car is only 9 months old and something strange has happened to the drivers seat.

A few days ago I moved the seat forwards to clean behind it and didn't move it back into its former position. Yesterday when I wanted to drive it I was unable to move it back. It goes forwards but not backwards beyond a point...the result being that it is almost impossible to drive it unless you are a dwarf. It is as if the car wrongly senses that that is the end of the runner.

A mercedes technician came to the house yesterday and plugged the car in to the diagnostic computer. After an hour he gave up. Nothing wrong, no error code (incidentally the car has 59 'computers' he tells me...the new S class has 120 lol) and he, I and my daughter checked that nothing was obstructing the runners.

Anyway. I managed to drive it to the local service centre before I lost the blood supply to my legs. They'll look at it tomorrow.

Perplexing....anyone encountered a similar issue?

As a sideline I also asked them to investigate and resolve a rattle that seems to emanate from near the starring column.

 

I had a similar issue with the passenger seat a week ago. Turns out the seatbelt was keeping it from moving past a certain point. I unhooked the belt from the clip at the top of the seat back and that solved the problem. I reattached the belt to the seat and all is well. Not sure if that's your problem but try detaching the belt and see if that helps.

 

You wouldn't think that could cause the problem, but it does say in the owner's manual to release the seatbelt from the holder before sending the seat all the way forward. Hmmm...

 

Turns out it was self inflicted. The service centre ended up taking the whole seat out of the car to ascertain what was stopping the seat going back.

It was a Phillips head off an adaptable screwdriver. It must have fallen out of my trouser pocket and jammed there.

They only charged me 1hrs labour...as the car is under warranty until 2023. But it was my fault.

So a lesson well learned...must be more careful in future.

 

All's well that ends well.

 

So glad it turned out OK. Don't feel bad, there may not be anyone on here that that kind of thing hasn't happened to...

 

Glad it worked out. We’ve all done silly things that caused all kinds of grief. I had my ‘18 SL550 in for a service and I mentioned that the lights inside the trunk didn’t come on anymore. Turns out, if you turn off one of the switches related to the interior lights, it also turn off the trunk lights. It took the dealer about an hour to figure it out, so I didn’t feel too bad.