2001 230 CLK Cab - Jammed seat and hood question

[Roger Woods]

We have a 2001 CLK cab that has not been used much in the last year or so and it went in the garage today for MOT and service etc as my wife is going to be using the car a bit for work. It passed the MOT (just, by the sounds of it) with a few advises. the main thing that the garage could not sort was the drivers seat wont adjust and there does not seem to be any manual over ride - Any Ideas and the rear catch on the hood does not release, mostly it seems that because the car has sat around 'things' seem to have seized up, the little garage that had the car was very straight with me and said he did not want to start taking the car apart when there could be an easier way to do things, he had not worked on one before.

Any ideas people or can you recommend anyone close to Crawley that knows about these things - NOT main dealer?

[Roger Woods]

Any ideas guys, it seems no bugger even wants to look at the car, let alone repair the dam thing!

[Bargenosenti]

Not sure if you've been across to mbclub.co.uk - a quick search + post over there may be of help.

Otherwise there is a recommended Merc independents in the stick at the top of the forum. I'm new to Merc ownership so can't recommend anyone at the moment

[Chris Bowes]

You could try http://www.inautos.co.uk/ - Ive not used them myself but someone recommended them to me

regards

Chris

[Roger Woods]

Chris - Thanks, Those chaps are 5 mins from work for me!

I will call in the morning!

[Roger Woods]

Chris Bowes said:

You could try http://www.inautos.co.uk/ - Ive not used them myself but someone recommended them to me

regards

Chris

All booked in to www.inautos.co.uk for this coming Friday, I will let you know how I get on

[Chris Bowes]

Be interested to hear how you get on - a friend said they were good

Chris

[sanguinary]

We have a similar problem with the passenger seat in our SLK. I'm lead to believe they use the same seats and it can be a fairly common issue. The wires in the base of the seat stretch over time, causing them to fail.

Let us know if this is the case on your car. Our seat has been stuck for 12 months now because I can't access to get it off the rails, or even get behind it.

[Roger Woods]

Yep all booked in to drop off at 830 on Friday, I will be sure to report back

[Roger Woods]

All sorted and very pleased with the work, Thanks Guys

[Roger Woods]

Chris Bowes said:

You could try http://www.inautos.co.uk/ - Ive not used them myself but someone recommended them to me

regards

Chris

Cheers Chris, all done and dusted

[sanguinary]

What was the problem with the seat?

[Roger Woods]

Somehow the memory had been lost and the brain had shut off, all was shut down and restarted and all now good, the hood catch had jammed and snapped and was about 120 quid for the new catch