The scanners are useful for 1996 and newer cars (OBDII). OBD 1 is manufacturer-specific and you can't get any useful info from your MB with off-the-shelf scanners.
Bill Ditmire Ditmire Motorworks,Inc.
425 White Horse Pike Absecon,NJ 08201Ditto on scanner. I don't see new O2 sensor on your list of new parts.
Can anyone suggest a good third party tool?
I'm currently driving a '99 C43 and I'd love to be able to query the car periodically.
tom
I bought one of these sometime back to use on our Ford Explorer that had recurring problems. It worked great from problem id to resetting the dreaded check engine light. This thing works with your laptop or other PC via a serial port.It is also supposed to work with MB etc. I have not had to try it out yet on my SL320 though. The link is
The one I like is the Palm powered one... that is alot of feature can be done with it...
They also personally sold these on eBay and you can save a bit of money if you are careful.
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