But once the bodywork was completed, reality hit hard. The dashboard stayed dark, the engine wouldn’t start, and the complex hybrid system remained locked in safety mode. For four months, multiple mechanics tried—and failed—to revive it. The owner grew increasingly desperate, knowing that a non-drivable hybrid of this class is essentially an extremely expensive pile of plastic and metal.
As a last resort, the car was handed over to the team behind OGS & Mechanics. What they found was chaos: a dead battery, loose panels, and a flood of digital fault codes. Earlier repair attempts had only made things worse. A damaged control unit had been replaced with a second-hand part that physically fit, but digitally didn’t belong. In Mercedes’ ecosystem, mismatched software between chargers, inverters, and the main computer is enough to cripple the entire vehicle.