Well it finally happened to me , just under 30,000 , key locked up ! Now going to have to drill it out ! One question since you can’t turn the key to position one , after I drill out pin will the cylinder come out ? Is there any reason to take the tumbler out , won’t the cylinder come out without removing the tumbler ? For those of you who are going to ask why I didn’t do the sticky key fix 1st , for the last year I’ve been trying to find someone to do it been turned down by all the shops around here ! I even had the 4 pages printed on how to do it ! If the shops didn’t want to try , I thought I better not either , even asked for someone here but no luck , nobody close by to help me out . Now I have no other options now that the key is stuck ! Oh the love of a crossfire , but I think it’s waning !!!

OK I’ll fly out, give you $3,000 for an undriveable car, fix it and drive back. I have always liked red.😀

Figures now I get help ! That’s ok it’s at Mercedes now ! They at least offered $4,500 , & your a member !

They do not have the expense of flying out there, hotel expenses etc.
I guess the cost to fix the car will be a lot of money, new ignition switch etc.Take that off the $4,500 and you’ll realize my offer was the best.LOL

I sold it to them for that ! Don’t have to repair it’s theirs ! Now their worry not mine !

No didn’t try simple repair shops ! I took it to a place called German concepts only work on those types of cars Mercedes , BMW, Audi, they did my brake fluid , & it fixed low brake pedal & light . They wouldn’t do key fix , plus went to another high end German car shop we only have two in my area they also looked at the print out I had for repair wouldn’t touch it either ! Went on here nobody close by to help either ! So only thing to do when it locked up in parking lot was to have it towed to Mercedes ! I was planning to try it this fall when I put it away , that’s my luck !

Maybe they realized that it was a job that they could not get much money from, they would sooner do a job that took more hours.
Most people go to a dealer, repair shop or whatever and expect to get hosed so the shops oblige, after all they do not want the customer to be disappointed. 😏

Pizza Guy so you can drill it out & replace it all with in 2 1/2 hrs ? So my question still is , after drilling out the tab lock , do you still have to mess with the tumblers or just get the spring tab out of the cylinder ? And it will work again ?

It would be very hard to drill the pin out, better results have been obtained when using a rotary burr and cut it out.
Taking the car to a Mercedes dealer is just like being asked to get tarred and feathered and run out of town, do not expect a warm welcome.

No I didn’t sell CROSSFIRE ! Just playing with member who tries to lowball ya when you need help !!! My son-in-law is service mgr. for Mercedes ��

Yes so last place to try, don’t like to use the family card , but emergency said yes pull out the card !

Mercedes shop called all done , just owe for towing , but ins will cover that ! So a big shout out to son-in-law & Mercedes for saving the day !