Took the POS W220 to the dealer to get things taken care of. Seems that the body shop did a poor job of sealing the rear window and that allowed water to congregate in the well behind the driver side rear wheel. Enough that it affected the Tele Aid, CD changer and Bose Amp. The body folks did not hook the command system together right anyway, but now the CD no longer works (submerged), TeleAid is obsolete anyway (underwater) and the Amp was getting wet. Operation is intermittent after the fix.
I wonder if the Bose amp is the same across the line for that period. Looks the same as the ML and E from 98-2002. Would it be shared with the W202 and W129 or w170? Other item of interest was the complete lack of blinker fluid on the driver side. The tattle tale on the dash was certain that none of lamps worked, but they had been until recently the rear just quit blinking. Low pressure from lack of fluid? No. The body is junk and the whole board is failing. I need to look into sourcing a fresh tail light assembly. The battery was checked out as part of the diagnostics. It was from 2005 and just barely hanging on. Now I have a fresh battery. clay 2002 s430 - Victor, a Stately & well tailored chap 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green 1986 SDL - Polei retired models- 1976 300D - Blei Vanst - it looks silvery 1972 220D - Gump - She was green, simple and ran 1995 E300D - Gave her life to save me against a Dame in a SUV POS 1987 SDL - Beware Nigerian Scammers _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
