The 'good neigbhour' quiet closing system was introduced for the 124
wagons, presumably because MB was getting feedback that 'slamming' the
rear door shut at un Godly hours is a big no no.
Also if someone slams the rear door shut whilst you're sitting in the
car, it is not a pleasant feeling.
I try to educate my dear family that there is no need for banging down
the door, they do it gently once or twice and then it's bang bang again
until I drop a valve again, it's a vicious circle.
Perhaps if you had owned an S124, you would understand that the system
is not unnecessary.
Did the bomb bay doors on the B-52's shut gently or did they slam shut
and shake the plane?
As far as what the problem with them may be, could be the micro switch
that tells the motor to start motoring and suck in the door.
The door will still shut but maybe only into stage 1 but don't worry you
can drive these things with the rear door open and you won't even notice
it, well Fay didn't.
Also I wonder why they did not extend this system to the other doors, I
know the 140 had them but then they abandoned that after the 140, did
they not?
On a semi related note, I was watching an ep of the mythbusters
yesterday, one of the myths was that a big sound system could break all
the windows. So they grabbed an old 126 SD and built a giant speaker
into it, which was actuated via a linkage from the back of the gearbox,
so it would move up and down. The expectation was that the sound
pressure would pop out/break one of the windows but it was the sunroof
which gave out first and released the pressure.
The funny thing was that the other myth being tested was that driving a
car faster over a rough road would make the ride smoother, they used a
cutlass for that and I thought to myself, if they used the 126 for the
smooth ride and the cutlass for the sound thingy, things may well have
been different.
Hendrik
who has the first world problem of having to manually shut doors all
they way, except for one
On 28/04/14 22:07, WILTON wrote:
Yep. 'Had that thought, but didn't know that car had such unnecessary
"feature."
Anything to run the cost on up, I guess.
Wilton
----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Moir" <fredh.s...@hotmail.com>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2014 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Hatch latch.
Wilton.Could be the "Pull the door closed" thingummibob.Fred.
From: wilt...@nc.rr.com
To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 18:56:59 -0400
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Hatch latch.
Locking actuator or locking system supply pump?
Wilt
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