[k5vya]

yesterday my car center console was showing "Anti-Theft Protection Activated" car was driving as normal, but nothing was working in the center console, so I called the dealer and described the issue, the guy on the phone said never heard of such problem being reported, and booked in for diagnosis.

After that I did a bit of googling and found the following link and the advice did the fix.

http://www.edmunds.com/mercedes-ben...nz-cla250-anti-theft-protection-gremlins.html

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[Dan]

Seems strange that if someone nicks your car the only thing that will happen is that they can't use the stereo lol

 

[Clement]

It's designed so that if the stereo was stolen it couldn't be fitted into another Merc without a dealer visit (and hopefully some questions) for it to be re-coded.