W209 CLK hood stuck.....

[AlexR]

Hi,

I have a strange problem with an '06 W209 CLK 280 hood that I wondered whether anyone else has come accross / may be able to shed some light?!

When trying to retract the hood, a message appears in the dash 'Close Boot Lid'. Of course it is closed. It's as if the car knows the boot is closed, but the hood thinks it isn't - i.e if I open the bootlid and move the car, you get the red warning saying the lid is open and when I close it you don't but...the hood still thinks it is open.

Does anyone know if there are any additional sensors / microswitches that the hood control module relies upon to know the boot is closed, other than the regular one in the catch?

 

[Sp!ke]

I think the error might be referring to the inner boot cover.

Open the boot and reseat the inner cover and make sure it is correctly in place on both corners.

 

[AlexR]

Good point Spike but.... If I open the boot seperator I get the 'Close Boot Seperator' warning instead which would leave me to believe that part of it is working. When I close the seperator it reverts to the 'Close Boot Lid' warning....

 

[chris846]

can't answer your question directly - my car is a W208 but, the manual for it describes how to fiddle with the pin switch so's the bootlight is switched off with the boot open (dunno why they thought that was a worthwhile feature!). So, thinking logically - I'd guess the W208 at least has an additional 'boot open' sensor somewhere - otherwise the pin switch twiddlers could knack things when they tried to operate the folding roof...(and the control module thought the boot lid was shut, cos the boot light wasn't on etc. etc.)
Rubbish answer eh?
But I'd stick my tenner on there being an extra sensor somewhere
Roofs, love 'em!

 

[jaymanek]

Its probably the boot latch.. the micro sensors within tend to fail..

 

[AlexR]

So that's the question I guess!.... Is there an additional switch / sensor or....does the latch have more than one microswitch in it?... I'd tend to go with the former but it's nowhere to be seen.