First time watching one of your videos., it didnt disappointed me, on the contrary! One of the best diagnostic videos i've ever seen! Very enjoyable to watch, i loved every minute! Respect from 🇪🇺

Like Ivan says - no parts required. But this job is a brain carnage. You are not just diagnostician. You're a detective ! 👏

You have to bill for your time, because that is what you are selling, just like a doctor.

Great job. I'm really impressed by not only your vast knowledge, but your tremendous patience. You have a calm energy that I wish I had!

Sir, respect 1st. My GLK350 has not moved in 6 months. Two stealerships in Houston quoted $3k and $5k "front Sam" "rear Sam" "ism, tranny, ecm, coding, blah blah blah". After watching this video went to trunk, attached fuse #88, the click from that stalk and watching the actual shift out of "P" made me scream! Thank you for your video.

Top-notch, I love your videos. I was taught early on you're paid for your brain whether it's easy or not.

Very impressed Jake. Great detective work that led you to the problem. I would wager that a lot of people would not have figured that one out. Great job!.

Being European, I totally agree with you. Finding information is not so easy on our cars back here. Nice videos, keep them coming.👏

The CS button on the center console is for the transmission shift for comfort or sport to start on first or second gear. I believe the first step with all Benz is to check all fuse boxes for bad fuses, water damage or corrosion.

Love your logical approach, as allways! Great video

thanks for bringing us along, I believe this is where most people don't understand of what they have to do when diagnosing Europeans.... Most of the time is spent deciphering service information. It takes time, patience, persistency basic knowledge and some common sense to bring it all together to get to the final answer. well done as always.

Been trying to figure the same issue on my 2010 E350. Reviewed many videos but yours worked. The end of the video was the fix. Good thing I watch till the end. Thank you.

I'd rather be lucky than good. The only way to diagnose any problem is with the scientific method, and you did that masterfully as usual. Thank you for another great video.

Wow! Fantastic diagnosis. Your logical thought process was the determining factor in this one.

It's your time and tour skill that found it. One of the most complex ones I've seen from you so far. Great job.

really interesting. helps me a lot the information is usually in there ,and i must always look at repair from multiple angles never be beaten. thanks Jake

I have the Mercedes WIS (workshop information system) and it is also a nightmare to navigate and find the right info, because even when you put the VIN in, it will give you the schematics for a bunch of different models that somehow share the same architecture.

Being a diag tech you get " is that all it was!?" If id have known that!" Thing is they didnt know. Everything's easy when you know. And that was no easy diagnosis. Nice video. There is no better feeling than being the last guy to fix when all else have failed

I just learnt more for having watched this.

What a rollercoaster, loved it!!! I'd rather be lucky than good

JACK, AWESOME AND INTRESTING PROBLEM JUST BECAUSE OF A FUSE THANKS FOR SHARING UR THOUGHT PROCESS AND DIAGNOSESS.CHEEEEEERS FROM CANADA

Awesome video man. Really strange how that fuse link was just dangling there. Have delt with similar issues but mostly tied to a faulty ISM.. Just really enjoyed seeing the actual thought process and strategy leading to the fix. "No parts required" fixes are the best! Thanks for sharing 👍

You followed the data AFTER diagnosing what each code is followed by this translation and that translation, so YES! Bill according to time spent on diagnosing this car AND the crazy translations! Great learning curve! This is why I don't own a European type vehicle. They do things in a complex and confusing way! Very Good Diagnosis!

great video Jake , great step by step process in finding the fault, here in the UK i use Alldata it can take some time to find what you want and impossible to know all the terminology for each manufacturer hence the time taken to find what you want, i think the American version is set out better especially on your wiring diagrams, thanks again, great PODCAST you did too , keep up the good work and the youtube videos much appreciated

Great presentation..thanks 👍.

LMAOOOOO, all that detective work to plug in a measly fuse. Good work. A No parts required conclusion is still the best outcome.

Amazing, Love the diag process😍 This could've easily had a Shift Lever Control Module replaced But, you did it Great work😍

Thanks for the knowledge

Excellent troubleshoot skills, what a complicated system

That was a Great case! BTW be thankful that you have some information, i live in the middle east & we don't get any service data from anyone. Our cars are unique in their systems and layouts, when a US vin car comes in i smile knowing that all data would have detailed information on it , otherwise I'm half blind.

Wow this was good. I was listening to the podcast with Sean Tipping then i saw this in my you tube feed as you said you didnt want to give it away what happened with this MB. You channel is awesome, i really admire your patience when it comes to testing.

Mind boggling! The time you spent navigating through wrong, misleading or conflicting information, is just absurd! Your patience and perseverance got you through several wild geese chases, to end up with a case of missing power - I thought you were going to find a blown fuse in the SAM2, but reality was even weirder! Thanks for recording this epic case study - anyone that eventually has to work on a Mercedes should know about it - the traps in the chain of information are diabolic! Fantastic job, Jake!!

Also a W212 owner here, the WIS navigation can be a nightmare.

Great work 💯 i hope more like this issue

I know this is late, but, “Are you kidding me!!!!!????” Wraps it up.

🤔 almost as if the auction gremlins have been at it again..👍👍

When troubleshooting if a fuse is good or not, you should pull the fuse to see if one of the legs are cut or bent, or if there are signs of corrosion, unless of course by pulling and replacing the fuse you would disrupt your testing, like waking up a vehicle while diagnosing parasitic draw. From a systems standpoint ---- (at least domestic automotive control systems) if you have a fully electronic PRNDL (shift lever position) ---- the TCM ---- (even if it is integrated with the transmission valve body (or close to the valve body) which does make sense if you want to minimize the wire harness length (which has benefits) between the loads (solenoids) and the solenoid amplifier, minimize the number of pins on the transmission housing connector (if the module is internal), and avoid having to package the TCM external to the transmission), ----- should have ownership of the electronic PRNDL. The word "Servo" is an poorly chosen word by the translator or person reading the MB shop manual, the closed loop positional valve control in the transmission they are referring to is the pintle position of a VFS to set line pressure. The VFS pressure is set using switching current control and the output is a measure of the actual pressure (using a analog pressure sensor or pressure switches), so there is a positional closed loop to control pressure, but we do not in the USA traditionally call this a servo system, we would say the line pressure is VFS controlled with no reference to a "positional servo". The reason is if you are testing the transmission by itself on a automatic transmission testing dynamometer (which will happen at the transmission manufacturing plant) you need to have all the required operation I/O present (especially PRNDL) without abstraction through another module to actually test and calibrate the transmission. The control representation can be encoded into a CAN message and monitored by other modules, but the TCM has primary ownership of this real-time control input. So, how things talk is actually a result of the system design requirements for the control function, like a transmission. When we use the term Powertrain for domestic brands we are talking primarily everything in the powertrain, which traditionally means, ECM, TCM, ISM and any other module used to move the vehicle over the road. You can see this on your scan tool under the "Power" Network representation. The high speed real-time data (messages) shared for control is reserved for this bus for powertrain. Any module on the "Power" bus can broadcast information to other modules in the vehicle but this is not considered critical real-time data and has a lower priority. The rear SAM cover must act as a secondary lock to hold in the fuse mini-housings, if the cover is missing can the fuse just vibrate loose?

Your skills are really getting polished on euro cars 🚗 but super mario guy is still leading on European cars 🚗 😀..good luck and great great 👍🏿 👌 info.cheers

Well done 👍

awesome video i learned a lot from it

Unbelievable 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 charge them the hours , you are right ! You deserve and earned it..

very good one tks

Dang, that was some great troubleshooting

What a great story. My daughter has this kind of Mercedes and when driving it I accidentally shifted into neutral when trying to activate the window washer. Not a great experience on the M1 freeway. I'm not sure I like the way auto repair is drifting into the frustrating complexity of module repair. Maybe it would be a different story if you got to work on a single line of vehicles.

40 amp draw, KOEO?😢 are there vacuum tubes within the various logic boxes??😜

Alldata may not be perfect, but you dont know how jealous i am here in Australia. We have very few aftermarket options for information here , and in my experience they are very limited and years behind. I get more useful info from yourself, Ivan and Eric O. keep up the good work 👍

have you ever tested a fuse with test light found power on both sides then pulled the fuse to find one of the leg have rotted off. you did nt get lucky you worked for the win well done and thank you for the vid

Dam. Good diag bro.

Strange fuse set up!!! On troubleshooting..a very thorough visual inspection may have saved you time. Hard to call this..i do not fault you. You logically worked the problem, i approve.

Grasias

Not only look for it but decipher it.

The money makers........Loved it....

What a hoot!!!

Jake, do you think someone threw something or bounced something and that knocked that connector loose. Just thinking about it. In the end it is fixed and congratulations. Thanks for Sharing!

Damn good video ❤

Hi, Only Parts Required: Yes!! A FUSE!! A again 😁😁

QUICK-WITTED Automotive Diagnostics &Programming 👍 From Nick Ayivor from London England 🇬🇧 ⏰️ 21:43pm

I personally think it's wrong to charge for extra time while learning a new car/ new situation. Think about it: now that you've seen this issue and are more familiar, next time you'll be able to find that same problem very quickly, and the next guy will only be charged for 1 hour. So why should we get rewarded for being less experienced and unfamiliar in this first case? Sometimes you just have to chalk it up as a learning session. That's just my 2 cents. I can understand both sides of the argument with this; and I know it's discussed often. I just wouldn't want to be the customer getting hit for picking the wrong technician who is still learning my car vs someone who works on them every day and has seen it all before. Again, I just don't think it makes sense that we (technicians) get penalized as we get more proficient-- since you can find it faster and only charge 1 hour. vs being rewarded when we struggle for hours. I'm sure in this case, they have money and would be happy to pay it: so maybe that does factor into the decision when charging. It's an interesting discussion, for sure. I know scanner danner says the same as you: "they need to be charged".

The part that’s missing in this conversation is the value to the customer. Regardless of where they took it or who worked on it, they we’re looking for a solution to their problem and they got what they paid for. Any reasonable person would understand that paying for a solution at a reasonable cost is fair if the cost is reasonable. And there is no guarantee that a MB technician would have found that any more quickly and that the service adviser wouldn’t charge accordingly for the value of the job. It is very flawed to think that an MB tech would have been any more competent or, that factory data would have been easier to navigate. It simply is not any more enlightening than aftermarket in some areas and generally gives no more than system description and segmented wiring diagrams. It still requires an experienced tech to understand and decipher and test. The more experienced you are as an independent should equate to a higher rate and charging your time spent is what feeds you and your family. I highly doubt that this is a common issue in a TSB. It is more likely that that fuse was not fitted properly by someone working on it in the past and finding someone else’s mistake is time consuming. So is it the customer or tech that should pay for that? Either way the customer got the result they paid for and are happy.

8:08 Jake see "DIN 72552" it's German standard!

You should get paid what u put into it.. good job my friend

272 refers to the engine, whereas 722 refers to the transmission.

Only your customer can answer this ,somebody played with the console and this fuse for sur ,since when a fuse holdervcan move by itself? or maybee you been tested for your honesty??

Dam good video

👍👍👍

lol I just put an hour and half into a misdiagnosed AC compressor that was missing the control side fuse. Data I was getting just didn't seem logical...

Hello sir Sorry for the question, I would like to know what model of scanner you are using. By the way, I really like watching your videos because you make it look very easy,, thanks for sharing all the information

Which test light do you use? I like the red color

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Did you go back and see what fuse 89 should be powering Well done finding that wire was missing off fuse 88

This is happening to me now. I watched diagnosis but what do I do? I'm not a car tech or mechanic.

Mercedes would have just thrown parts at it till it magically started working again, and charge for each diagnosis when the last one didn't fix anything. Dealers are the worst rip off crooks out there. Despite clear and concise instructions given them by the manufacture, they are there to make as much money off each customer possible even at the risk of losing the customer in the future, they are not there to serve their customers in the least.

When i used to flip cars i would get alot of them from the auction and may or may not have done sneaky shit like that.... It makes a car seem less valuable than it actually is knowing that I would then bid on it and if I won it I knew it immediately how to fix it. There are several that I did sneaky things like that too that I ended up not winning and I always wondered how long it would have taken some poor guy to figure out the fuse that I cut one leg off and put back in or connectors I slightly unplugged 🤣🤣🤣🤣

That’s the bill

If this works for my customers car tomorrow, I’ll just charge them the 46 min I spent watching this video.

Have to wonder how it became dislodged.

Now if only there were more resources for coding on these cars. My phoenix plus slid off the steering wheel while diagnosing an issue and "enable power liftgate" was pressed. Have to figure out how to code that function back out 😡

I am watching only upto the point u have removed steering column module, minute 15. The false information started with the scanner telling you N15/5 at the beginning😢. Launch and its co-brands or Autel , none shows up to date modules actual name accurate current to W212. Only MB Xentry being OE scanner will call modules ID accurately. And MB wiring diagram will name modules as per Xentry. All data by looks of its drawing, that is copy n paste MB original drawing. I can feel ur pain. I got all 3 scanners mentioned and MB WIS , hence i know how difficult it will be if one never seen MB Xentry and MB WIS original wiring diagram and task to do what u are doing now using not a Xentry and misled by wrong modules name/s

ever get the feeling you are being tested on some of these??? lol

How well do you like to diag vw? Lol

Bro $120 x 5 =$600

Sprechen sie deutsch? You have to speak German to the car. 😂

Dang almost first 😁