Friend of mine Sylwester has picked up his first MB two weeks back - he's driving on a business trip to the mountains (Silverthorne, CO) and he called to tell me that the engine temps have risen over 110 deg C while driving up the long hills on the way to to the high country - normally his temp has been hovering around 90 in town - he's new to this car and doens't know if this is a normal operating temp of the motor - seems high though. He said in addition, there was a new noise that he could not describe well over the phone. Sorry, not much to go on.

Question - does this model have a scanner port that one could hookup a scanner to and get a head-start at what the problem might be (or if there is one)?! Anything else to check on the car to start the troubleshooting sequence?

Any advice will be welcome -

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