hey what's up YouTube here's another
view by ratchet syringes and today we're
going to be working on this 2003
Mercedes C 230 with the 1.8 liter
supercharged engine my opinion one of
the worst cars ever made by Mercedes in
recent history that is it's just I think
they just try to be a you know make an
economy make a cheap luxury car skimp
that on all sorts of things and these
cars have a variety of small and large
issues which you should I would
recommend you stay away from these cars
okay
it's mistake for me to buy this and kind
of lose money on this problem but anyway
the problem I had with this car was that
I let it sit for a while and the battery
completely drained on this then I went
to open the door and jump-started and I
realized I actually don't have the key
to the car these things come with these
they also come with the key but when I
bought I just didn't come with the door
key and this is what you used to get in
and out of it and as you can just can
tell nothing is happening because this
batteries come with a drain and this is
also what you need to what you use to
turn the car on and off this is another
problem apparently they have is that
these go bad and then you have to go to
dealer spend the what a lot of money
just kicking on level and these but
that's just a tip of the iceberg as far
as these cars go but anyway yeah here's
hi I was able to finally get into the
car I thought you might find this
interesting
okay so basically with the car that's
got the battery is completely drained
well you need to supply power to somehow
you could you know you could work this
good work this hood try to get it open I
tried I couldn't really do anything or
you could obviously do what the most
common thing is and there's tools you
know but you can stick in get it to the
door to the door handle get it open
my opinion a lot of times you use that
stuff especially on the car that's you
know not going to eat up the best
material and you what happens is you
could potentially
and these out of shape and then uh your
car will look worse you look bad you
know people and trying to sell the car
which I'm trying to do people might come
look at it and I think I had an accident
or something but by lines are not line
if they have body lines don't line up so
so in my quest to supply power basically
here's way of it okay so basically you
will need to jack up whichever side of
the car the your starter is on and this
car is going to be on this driver side
but the jacking point for these Mercedes
up for the front is going to be down
here which I'll show you when this is
all properly lifted up and supported one
thing very important is that since this
car is all locked up our emergency
parking brakes aren't on so you want to
choke both the front and the rear of
both your rear wheels before you jack up
the car because your emergency brake
isn't on and it's kind of like in the
cars in neutral you know you left this
up and any kind of small movement
there's potential potentially you could
the car could fall off the slide off the
jack stands and you know cause you great
bodily harm okay so that will triple do
whatever you go you checked everything
make sure both your rear wheels are
choke they're not going anywhere
and then you go to jack up the
effrontery car okay
you
okay and here's a Jacke important for
this car this front of the car this
solid piece of metal right here that is
a jacking point and then I also push
placed my jack stand on this side only
I'm only gonna support the the left side
that's where we're going to be doing our
work that's where our starter is and
just let that side down so just provide
more traction so this thing is gonna
slide while I'm underneath it okay so
with the vehicle property lifted and
supported you wanna get underneath it
now find your starter in our case it's
going to be on the left side there you
can see our stutter motor and the
solenoid next you want to find the where
the the power source for the starter is
connected to it which in our case is
going to be let me see if I can get a
zoom in that bolt there you see a bolt
right there that one actually had a cap
on it the first time I did this actually
I popped that off I never flying so I
can't find it but anyway that's what's
holding that connector in that's your
power source okay next what you want to
do is get a long piece of screwed long
screwdriver as you can see I've tacked
it up because it's powered you know I
got off this power side from my jumper
box that's underneath here connect it to
the bottom of it then i taked it up so
it doesn't swag stone we don't get any
sparks as we're moving up this up there
and then basically make sure your jumper
box is drawn it as well then basically
we just put this on there the tip over
this obviously it's not tape and then
get there remote and there we go lock
unlock everything is working hooray
alrighty now
there we go now we can get in this thing
and do a proper jumpstart and actually
replacing the battery probably a much
better idea they want to keep doing this
so yeah just thought I quickly show you
guys how to do this there's another
safety measure like take something I
forgot to mention is that on this card
there is a splash shield there's
actually two splash shields here that I
had already me removed working on the
suspension and whatnot but uh you know
so if you're doing this on the car and
this car
there's splash shields here if you're
doing a different car you may not have
you may or may not have to remove a
splash shield okay ah so yeah hope you
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