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Originally Posted by M.B.DOC
You need to have codes read from the electronic accelerator computer.
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I was driving home from Philly to Baltimore yesterday in my E500 and along the way, I braked to slow for a red light, which changed to green before I came to a stop. I took my foot off the brake and hit the gas and nothing happened. I pushed the gas further and looked at the IC and the ASR light was on. Then, suddenly, the car downshifted from 3rd to 1st, the revs shot up, and the car rocketed away. It continued to run with the first half of the accel. pedal range doing nothing and the tranny shifting like a drunk. I didn't want to stop because I had my four year old and four month old sleeping in the back (amazing they didn't wake up from the lurching, especially on the B-more Beltway at rush hour). But when I stopped and turned off and back on, the light was gone and car ran fine. Same thing this morning.
Question is, do the codes have to be read during the problem or can it still be dx'ed after the fact?