“Dear customer, we need to drill a hole to access the trunk… “

HELL yeah, me every time I drill those holes >:0

@Gavin Haynes secretly...you loved it.

sounds like he’s getting drilled from the back hole

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@Chris Topher probably the dude who filmed it. Seems like he was trying to cover it up.

Jonathan is right guys, you just can't do that, you don't have the right

@Draxindustries1 USA. One can find an address, but you'd have to submit a DMV report request which would include the vehicle's history along with the last address the car was registered to. To be fair though, if you're not a cop or someone who should have special access many states will not give you personal info of the owner, and many times not even the address. So, looking back at it, I will admit it's not plausible one would get much info without a lot of leg work. So, maybe it isn't that bad...

Does anyone give an F is the question

@jonathan you can, also ypu can unlock phones through face id with a picture of said person on another phone.

Even if the car had to be broken into which locks trunks on Mercedes, he could a have used a scanner that could acsess the rear sam to actuate the rear trunk lid to open it. There are many different ways of opening this trunk even if the handle was broken. I'm a current technician for Mercedes and never have seen this done. But would only make sense if he did not have the key, or if the lock was busted

You can see it right there in the video. My car has a hidden one behind a plastic piece on the door handle. Most cars have some sort of key hole. Even if they lost the fob with the built-in key a good lock pick could do it I'm sure.

@TheBanjoShow there’s still multiple ways in without ruining a panel

He probably... didnt have the key... wow

Or just take the tag panel off to access the pneumatic actuator rod, either way this guy is a hack job and has no business working on any Benz!

I heard the snares automatically after reading this comment

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@Triston McCarthy Keep huffing copium. Your car is an overly complicated plastic junk box that loves to fail lol

@ㅤㅤㅤ Moving a seat forward is expensive and time intensive....ok

@OnlySleep a whole.lot.of cars don't have seats that fold down lmao ..what world are u in buddie

@OnlySleep 09 Corolla. The seat release is in the trunk

@kiyosen L. yeah just fold the welded in piece of sheet metal.

@Adam Speck it’s as shitty as it can be

It's poor engineering on Mercedes part. That's just stupid.

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Well if that truly is the only way to open the trunk then those cars are a total piece of shit

@2stroke boys Nope. Without the ski bag option, which was extremely rare in the USA, there is no access to the trunk from inside the vehicle. Even if it did have the ski bag, you’d have to destroy the bag which is probably irreplaceable now and extremely expensive if it is still available. And once you’ve destroyed the exceedingly rare bag, you’ve now got to destroy further interior trim pieces as well as actual structural metal in the trunk lid to gain access to the latch. The seats do not fold down and even if you remove them there is no access to the trunk behind them. Just solid metal unibody and wiring conduit. Removing the rear shelf trim won’t get you anywhere either. To get access to the trunk through the rear shelf, you’ve got to remove the roof lining of the trunk, which requires access to the trunk. Then you’ve got to remove the speakers from the rear shelf which bolt in from the bottom inside the trunk. Just to humor all the doubters out there, let’s pretend that you did decide to cut through the unibody behind the seats or rear shelf, exactly what is it you expect to see or be able to do once you’ve made a hole? The entire trunk is lined with trim and covers blocking further access to anything. So now that you’ve cut your way through the unibody, you’ve now got to cut through the interior liners and carpeting. Let’s say you continue this fools errand and cut through the interior liners, I mean you’ve already destroyed part of the unibody so what’s some interior trim right? Great you’ve now got access to the inside of the trunk. So I ask again, what is it that you expect to be able to do from this point? This vehicle predates the requirements for an emergency release handle or button and the latch mechanism is covered by yet more trim and actual structural metal parts of the trunk lid. So now you’ve spent a ton of time and energy removing the rear seats and or shelf, you’ve cut through the unibody, you’ve cut through interior trim in the trunk, and if your main goal is to open the trunk, well you haven’t done that yet. This vehicle is a full size 4 door sedan. Because of this the trunk is very large and the area of the trunk lid where the latch sits is going to be too far away to access by reaching through the hole you’ve made regardless of where you’ve made it. I also don’t know of any cutters with enough reach to allow you to reach the area of the trunk lid where the latch resides. Remember it’s still covered by trim and metal that needs to be cut away first. So do you continue to cut away the unibody so that you can fit part of you’re body inside the trunk? I’m much taller then the average man and I know I cannot reach that area from the rear shelf let alone the seat backs so it’s extremely unlikely anyone else would be able to as well. Undeterred you press on, enlarging the hole such that you can fit the upper part of your body into the trunk so you can reach the area of the lid where the latch resides. You’ve come this far so why stop now. You cut through yet more interior trim pieces on the trunk lid and now, finally, you’ve got some access to the latch. However depending on what tools you’ve got you may need to cut away part of the metal skeleton of the trunk lid to actually open the latch. If for whatever reason you’ve now decided that the trunk lid trim and metal is a few cuts too far, you could cut open the plastic covering the striker and unbolt the striker to open the trunk. All of this can be avoided by drilling a single hole in a piece of plastic that can be easily repaired or replaced. Look I know how destructive and unnecessary this looks but I promise all the doubters out there that this is the fastest, easiest, cheapest, and least destructive way in. That panel is SMC so it will not rust, can be easily repaired, and even more easily replaced. Since it’s a minor exterior panel that is not complex they can be had from numerous aftermarket manufacturers or even junk yards. And despite what many people claim, it is not structural. Getting in through any other means whatsoever would require cutting or destroying much more expensive, rare, important, and possibly non repairable parts. This would be much harder, more time consuming, and expensive than necessary. The amount of time this took in the video is roughly accurate to the amount of time it takes in real life. Compared to any other amount of much more destructive work this is peanuts.

@Scott Reingold no, I proved that I can copy a fake vin from a used car site and some idiot on the internet would believe me.

@Ryan awesome. You proved you had no more advantage or disadvantage over the guy reading numbers in the market parking lot.

@Scott Reingold okay it's WDDXJ8FB8FA010495

@Ryan ok. Pleas show us how easy it is and tell us the vin now that you know how.

In any office or factory related to engineering lol

I literally say this all the time!!!

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@João_oliveira That explains it BUT he posted this as a short so when watching it as a short there is no description. I was wondering why he didn't get a lock pick. I guess they did and that person destroyed the pins. Should've called the lock picking lawyer. 😂

@scottguyer I do know that Mercedes often puts the latche release to fold down the seats inside the boot, so I'm not sure if you can fold them from the back seat.

@THE DEMON GAMER bro what are you talking about every c and e class i had the seats fold fine i had this C class too the seats fold

@Supermoto. Broo mbn

Someone doesn’t understand engineering or electric benefits. This is user error, errors such as Mercedes and bmw owners

Its not actually electric. Its pneumatic.

@Sam ur Boi the key mechs in these are often completely fucked from never being used or serviced correctly. Believe it or not it is still to this day part of a service to inspect, test and lubricate all mechanical keyholes on a Mercedes. It never gets done though.

@Indians Auto and its A LOT more subsceptible.

@INSTINCTXIV there is also a positve terminal under the hood.

@Craig Swinson No you can't. Different models

@Craig Swinson I guess that is why people have to take it to brand specialist mechanics, lol. I imagine the owner wanted the job done on the cheap because brand specialists cost a lot more money.

@Sioax Aeriken he did this entirely wrong. You can access the emergency mails pull by removing three bolts from the back seat. You have nearly 50% access by removing those bolts.

@Ferrum Ignis In the description it says the hole is sealed, but not sure how. If it's just silicone, it could be cut by the thief, epoxy would basically make it like it was never damaged(in terms of strength). But regardless, I don't think thieves are going to know about opening the trunk in these old cars because he would have to go through the trouble of removing the plate, which is already a red flag because some thieves just want the plate to put on another vehicle for a crime. With that effort, might at well just cut up the door sheet metal to expose the mechanism and steal the car that way. (But most thieves are not going to go through that trouble and it makes too much noise.

@Sioax Aeriken Nice easy access for a car theif: take the plate off, remove the plug and he's in without smashing any windows or forcing a lock.

My guess is that the shop didn't have a locksmith on standby. Plus he said the mechanical key didn't work in the description so idk if picking it would work in the first place.

My mistake. I miss read it. You are correct no connection, no power.

@Taylor Jackman he said the battery was dead. The jump will give you power to pop the trunk. Why would the cable be disconnected in the first place.

@Leury Goncalves you mean pump jack?

@Leury Goncalves you don't think people would have already tried that? Lmao. If the battery is disconnected you can't use a jump box to open the trunk. Open circuit doesn't work.

Put a jump pack on the battery post in the engine bay. The red cap next to the washer cap goes to the battery + in the trunk , the other cable goes to the bolt next to the coolant overflow tank.

@The Lactation Station No there is no access from the back seats, they have a steel panel that seals the whole trunk area from the inside, you would have to cut a large hole to fit through. Also there is no emergency release on these cars they are too old, the emergency release was only mandated on cars around 2010 ish after this car was made.

@NZuncovered is that why there is access to the trunk via the back seats? Where you could crawl in and pull the emergency release

@The Lactation Station Key wasn't lost. The tumbler and link for the boot latch was seized, so this is the fastest and cost effective method unfortunately.

@Lorenzeveryone has a different opinion but all I kno is the ones made in Germany are 1000% better .

Mercedes-Benz is junk?

Maybe the back seat latch AND trunk release by the driver seat were not working? Seems strange, I gotta say