E500 135mph limiter..how to remove?

The European car market has a "gentleman's agreement" to limit everything but sports cars to 155. Emanuel

Please tell us what highways you use.

Talk to some of the companies that specialise in so called "super chips", replacement programs for your engine management system. They will probably have the info you want. A modern vehicle like yours is unlikely to rely on a spring tension balance weight in the rotor arm or similarly crude mechanical device.

Have a look at

Your E500 is not listed, but I'd phone them up anyway if I were you. If they can't help they'll point you in the direction of someone who can.

Can you let us know when you are making a journey, so we can stay safely at home?

I originally asked the question of Salesman at Merc dealer and he gave the

135mph figure. I have since found out 155mph is top speed, thanks for all your responses!

I burn up the asphalt on trips thru New Mexico, never a cop around.

Grant

Re: E500 135mph limiter..how to remove? Group: alt.auto.mercedes Date: Thu, Jul 24, 2003, 4:11pm (PDT+7) From: snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.net I originally asked the question of Salesman at Merc dealer and he gave the 135mph figure. I have since found out 155mph is top speed, thanks for all your responses! I burn up the asphalt on trips thru New Mexico, never a cop around. Grant

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I'd like to apologize for my fellow Americans, who've been brainwashed by our government into believing that exceeding 55 mph will somehow result in the car exploding and creating a rip in the space/time continuum. Have fun, and drive safe (which isn't synonymous with driving SLOW everyone!). Emanuel (sheesh!)

Hello,

Whilst you're at switching the chips, see to that the tyres are rated for 155mph. Otherwise, you're in serious trouble if one of them fails between 135 and 155.

They are probably equipped with H-rated tyres rather than V- or Z-rated which are more expensive.

C> 2003 E500 has speed limiter set at 135mph, can this be removed or > deactivated?

You should try that speed for 1 hour or so on a good autobahn, in a nice new MB diesel :-) make sure you know the customs of the autobahn first *-)

When driven by Americans, on American roads, yes. I've seen grannys driving at over 130mph on autobahns, they think nothing of it. but then they are real (trained) drivers driving real cars on real roads.

:-) You must not get out much of the US. Come with me for a cruise around Paris at 150mph and I'll show you how the civilized world drives :-)

Here's a particularly gratifiying MB story:

A test crew of MB engineers took a fleet of new MB models to the state of Montana, where the daytime speed limit is legally deemed to be "safe, reasonable and prudent." A highway patrolman clocked them doing 135 mph on a straight stretch of uninterrupted roadway, four-divided Interstate, and busted them for speeding.

They took the tickets to court, whereupon the judge decided "that 135 mph in a Mercedes-Benz is neither unsafe, unreasonable or unprudent."

I love that story. I'd have driven that way, too, but the farmers pull their tractors onto those same roads.

Thanks for the mental trip to the Autobahn in a new MB diesel, it was every bit as good as you said it would be :)

Rugbyguy

My recent visit to Germany and the autobahn left me disillusioned. Per your comment there used to be an MB ad of US visitor in the back seat of an S class with the host saying they would be arriving at the destination town (180 km distance) in 1 hour to the disbelieving US visitor.....well I could find no stretch of autobahn that was unlimited for longer than 20 km. Limits were 130, 120 or even 100 KPH for more than 70% of my travel from Frankfurt to Regensburg.

So where in Germany can you drive 200 kmph for 1 hour???

Bob B

Idiot.

This was in the mid-1970s.

Bye bye.

Where is Regensburg? I'm trying to figure out in which direction (N, S, E,W, NW,etc) you were going. I know in trips from Frankfurt to Dusseldorf I have driven at 260-270kph for a while. I'd estimate maybe 20% of my road had a speed limit. I hear former east berlin is a good place for driving on the autobahn. Richard

Regensburg is outside Munchen (Munich) in Bavaria, which I think is considered south??? We drove by signposts for Nurenburg (sp?). The was also a lot of road repairs which is where most of the 100KPH limits were indicated.

Bob B

marl>>

Why does anyone want to remove the speed limiter anyway?

BTW, I don't think that this 250 km/h limit (i.e. c. 155 mph) applies to all (European) makes of car, mainly some German ones, incl BMW & Merc.

DAS

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It is an agreement of all German car makers but Porsche excluded.

That is why with the AMG versions the removing of the speed limiters is an option only - remember an SL 55 AMG with all limiters removed goes 325 km/h (202 mph).

Juergen - 1982 W123 240D w/72 PS A lso M ighty G ood ;-))

If you have a few hours time and don't care about the costs for fuel you could do the following "circle", preferably in the early morning hours (very few traffic) with lots of unlimited parts:

Take the A5/A7 Frankfurt-Kassel (north direction - about 190km), continue on A44 Kassel - Paderborn (north-west direction - about 90km), A33 Paderborn - Bielefeld (north direction - about 50km), A2 Bielefeld - Hanover (east direction - about 110km), A7 Hanover - Kassel (south direction - about

165km), A7/A5 Kassel - Frankfurt (south direction - about 190km).

Have fun and drive with care.