Hello everyone, Josh Chase runs the Mercedes Swap Shop and he is trying to gain some tools in order to help us with our SKREEMs and other things. If you are interested in donating, please go to the link below:

https://fundrazr.com/11RWBd?ref=sh_7...l874ly81mKIl87

 

I think I was contributor #4 at $50.

 

Chrystal,

Saw your post on Facebook and saw Josh's initial request for funds also. Believe this is a worthwhile "seed" money approach to this whole ignition/security issue. From what I've read on this forum, Josh has much experience with these cars' electronics AND he appears to be in it for the long haul.for the benefit of all owners...at a reasonable cost to all. Kudoos to Josh and others here for "diving" in on the issues.

I'm in & contributed!

Regards,

 

I will contribute soon.

 

I'm in. Please keep folks informed here, in addition to Facebook. Thanks!

 

I got in early for $50

 

I'm in - just contributed via PayPal.
I was contributor #12. Come on, gang, you're financing the long life of your Crossfire!

 

It's not clear to me exactly what this is.

A little explaining might go a long ways towards the cause.

 

Josh has offered to see if he can devise some inexpensive way to totally bypass the fob/skreem/ptcm security so a skreem module going bad
( which seems to be happening now with increasing frequency ) will not prevent you from driving the car.
Currently, if this happens to you, you will be looking at a minimum of around $800 to get it going again.
Josh has in the past installed V8's into Crossfires, and even figured out how to get a V8 running with a manual transmission,
so you could say he is qualified for this task.
The monies are for supplies and a programmer box with software to do the research, and a bit for him and his family.

 

Then it sounds like a great cause to me.

 

perhaps could help if the contributions are used as payments when the problem is solved and we make a purchase?
i think more would be willing to join the cause. especially as we know he has already succeeded in making it work.

Josh?

 

Happened to venture on this thread from a Google search. Thank you to anyone who donated because this man deserves any credit he can get and definitely doesn't disappoint in doing what he said! Just had a broken transponder so my car was stuck at work. Sent out my parts to Josh at the MSS and they saved the day! Love it. I made sure to tip when sending payment because well earned!

Thanks again,
XFIRE1

 

Finally have time to to re- engage with the cars again. Glad to see all the interest in these cars. They would die without it. I have heard nothing but good things about this shop. But looks like I am late to the party. Did he receive enough donations to continue his work to rid of us this problem?

 

He has been in business for years and also does tunes. Check them out at Mercedese Swap Shop.

 

@oledoc2u :

He absolutely did. Josh has come up with the fastest and most reliable fix for all these issues:
Failed SKREEM
"I need a second key"
"Lost all my keys"

And he offers a transmission tune that turns your "W/S" switch into a toggle switch to select one of four modes on the fly. I drove an SRT with that mod and a tune at a Dragon a year ago (his east coast rep/tech, James Lee Smith's car, thanks James!) - out of this world control over the wonky automatic in our cars (not that ANY auto isn't crap). It was the first time in my 47 years of driving that I could control and shift an auto like I could a manual, only faster.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, Doc

 

Well Mark I need to get to know this young man. That is great news! One mod that has always escaped me. Thanks for letting me know.

 

you can reach out to us at anytime if you need anything or give me a call
704 868 6723

 

As of Dec 27, 2023 PayPal is the only payment option and it will not allow my donation to go through. It says the recipient account is restricted. Not sure what that means but I will be happy to add my name to the donation list when it is cleared up.

 

As far as I know we only take any major debit/credit card

 

Using the link in post #1 takes me to the fundrazr site and its payment button takes me to paypal. To be fair, paypal allows payment using a credit card but I could not even get that far. See the attached screenshot for the error message I get.