Attaboy!! Sent from my iPhone
> On Aug 6, 2023, at 8:45 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Wife is out of town and she tore up 2 things on the GL. First the rear hatch > latch failed. Motor tried to suck in the door but it just doesn’t latch. This > must be a common failure as new Chinese ones are available for less than $40 > all over eBay. The new dealer part is $300+ IIRC. Next thing was she said she > heard a loud noise and now car won’t go over 20. That was the AAA debacle. > > First up fix the issue that caused it to be towed home. I guess the loud > noise was the intercooler hose popping off. The 642 behaves very strangely, > surges, and barely moves with the hose off. Fixed that. > > Next up, the rear hatch. That job took all of 15 minutes. The cheap Chinese > latch looked identical to the one that came off the car. Will see how long it > lasts. There are no tools required to remove all the trim around the back > hatch and the rear inside panel. Everything is just plastic and held in with > clips, just pops loose with your hands but be careful not to break anything. > That now works great. > > Next project was the failed drivers door lock actuator. These are not like > the old days where you have a latch assembly and a separate actuator. It’s > all one unit. This has not been working for a year so I decided to tackle the > job. Pulled the one off one of the parts cars in the back 40. On the GL you > have to pull the window regulator which is actually the entire inside panel > of the door. There are a bunch of torx screws along the edge and the entire > window regulator assembly gets pulled out along with the latch assembly all > as 1 unit. The door latch is mounted to the window regulator. > > With the window regulator out, the entire center of the inner door is wide > open. Within, there is a flimsy piece of sheet metal that runs across the > door that I guess is supposed to reenforce it. It’s not like the big thing > metal bar in the older cars such as 123, 126 etc. Pic attached showing this > as well as the window regulator. > > Typically you just swap the whole lock assembly which best I can describe has > 2 parts. It’s like a puzzle figuring it all out the first time. On my car it > has keyless go, and the parts car does not so I could not simply swap the > whole assembly over because there is an extra harness that that donor part > does not have. I had to separate the core door latch assembly from the other > plastic piece that contains parts for the outside door handle. There is a > cable that runs from the secondary assembly that when the outside door handle > is pulled, it opens the latch. Had to do a little disassembly of this part to > unhook the cable, then transfer it to the good latch out of the parts car. > > After reinstalling the now complete latch assembly onto the window regulator, > it was now time to install the whole mess back in the door. You have to get > it somewhat into place and then working thru the small holes where the > outside door handle goes, fish the latch assembly into place then secured it > with screws. Put everything back together and now the wife will not have to > manually lock the drivers door. > > I will say after figuring out how the GL door panel comes off, there are only > 2 actual screws holding it in place, remove those and the rest is just clips. > Comes off and goes back on super easy. > > <image0.jpeg> > <image1.jpeg> > > > Sent from my 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
