2024 Mercedes-Benz EQA Pricing and Specs

This is an interesting one, because the actual battery on an ML350 is under the driver’s front seat, beneath the carpet in a little cubby hole under the floor. This is partly for better weight distribution but also for under-bonnet packaging, but it makes jump-starting or charging the battery a little bit more complex.

But Mercedes-Benz has thought this through and has provided one negative and one positive jump-point under the bonnet. You can locate them precisely by looking in the owner’s manual. By hooking a jump starter to these easily accessible posts, you can jump-start the vehicle without removing the carpet, floor and battery. As such, the same jump-points should also work as charge points for recharging the battery.

These older Mercedes sedans are seriously under-valued given what they represent. The price of a decent house when new, they’re now available for very reasonable sums, and they represent a lot of car for the money. Provided you get a good one. Because a crook one will bankrupt you.

The car you’re looking at is from the later, facelifted W124 series and the reason it’s had a new wiring harness fitted is because this model suffered form a new type of wring M-B was trialling at the time which turned out to literally fall to bits over time. But the replacement harness should not have the same problem, so that’s in this car’s favour.

The kilometres are also pretty low for a car like this, so I’d say that price, with a RWC thrown in, is a pretty sharp deal and represents good buying. On two conditions: That there’s some evidence of a service record that doesn’t have big gaps suggesting skipped maintenance, and that you carefully test drive the car and make sure you can live with its habits. These old Mercs tend to take off in second gear (they’re designed that way) and, with the four-cylinder engine in this example, you won’t want to be in a hurry. Beyond that, however, a good W124 is a true delight.

Traditionally, Mercedes-Benz has taken the entirely logical step of printing a legend of the fuses and what circuits they relate to on the inside of the fuse box cover. By referencing this, you can quickly identify what each fuse does while you’re in there checking whether they’re blown or not.

For some reason, however, sometimes Mercedes placed a paper diagram of the fuse layout in the boot with the jack and tools. So check there as well. The owner’s manual should also offer this information in the electrical section. If none of that works, you can Google the make and model and ask for fuse box information.

Don’t forget, either, that there are often two fuse boxes in many modern cars; one under the bonnet and one under the dashboard or inside the glovebox.