PaddyPrix
If breakin' parts is cool, consider me Miles Davis
Fellow s550 owners, my apologies if this is a dumb question, but I'm going to ask it anyhow. If you're not switching to a standalone management system (MoTeC M150 group buy!?) and still stripping out your interior, uh, how do you start your car without getting the No Key Detected?
I had taken the armrest/center console out, glove box, and then started on the dash when I realized that I needed that start button, which looks like it's part of a bigger connector. I plugged that back in, and then got the No Key Detected error. Noticed that there were a few connections around the cupholder, one for the cigarette lighter, the other for the USB, and this mysterious mount at the bottom of the cupholder that one might not notice if they haven't removed the plastic drip trays. I'm guessing that's where you'd put your keyfob if you lose all power, and it's some sort of keyfob sonar since it's centrally located and the keyfob would be at worst 2-3 feet away from it, good engineering, I'll give them that. Thing is, once you've removed that carpet, the tissue paper padding, and other things, it sits all goofy against the bare metal. I'm assuming that I could remove or cut the module out from the center console, and duct tape it or something cool like that, but when you guys start doing your cool flip switches, well, then what?
In the meantime, I ended up removing it and putting one end over the white screw coming from underneath, and it looks like I could fix it to some exposed screw with a nut to keep it from bouncing up.
I had taken the armrest/center console out, glove box, and then started on the dash when I realized that I needed that start button, which looks like it's part of a bigger connector. I plugged that back in, and then got the No Key Detected error. Noticed that there were a few connections around the cupholder, one for the cigarette lighter, the other for the USB, and this mysterious mount at the bottom of the cupholder that one might not notice if they haven't removed the plastic drip trays. I'm guessing that's where you'd put your keyfob if you lose all power, and it's some sort of keyfob sonar since it's centrally located and the keyfob would be at worst 2-3 feet away from it, good engineering, I'll give them that. Thing is, once you've removed that carpet, the tissue paper padding, and other things, it sits all goofy against the bare metal. I'm assuming that I could remove or cut the module out from the center console, and duct tape it or something cool like that, but when you guys start doing your cool flip switches, well, then what?
In the meantime, I ended up removing it and putting one end over the white screw coming from underneath, and it looks like I could fix it to some exposed screw with a nut to keep it from bouncing up.