I had that issue on my 211 & found that with a lot of fiddling & turning the steel key i could open the trunk. It didn't pop it like the electric key but finally let me squeeze the latch to open trunk.
Dwight Giles Jr. Wickford RI On Sun, Oct 20, 2019, 6:51 PM Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Went out to get something from the trunk. No happy. It has an electric > release. Battery is in trunk. The one in it was flat when I got the car, I > think I put in another one to get it running then charged that one and put > it back. Battery dead it seems, was probably mostly crapped out anyway. > Took out the aux battery, like a lawn mower battery, and charging it up, no > idea what its status is. Maybe that will provide enough juice to open the > trunk if it takes a charge? > > There’s a key lock too up under the lid so I took the metal key from the > fob and turned it. Maybe that locked it I don’t know but it didn’t release > the trunk. Now it won’t turn back. Bugger. > > Is there another place to put a charger on this thing to charge the big > battery? I don’t see a terminal anywhere, some cars have those. Maybe put > it on the aux battery and let the electrons flow? > > These newer cars are a total PITA > > --FT > Sent from iPhone > _______________________________________ > 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 > > _______________________________________ 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
