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Old 01-19-2018, 01:47 PM
shertex shertex is offline
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Originally Posted by pimpernell View Post
I thought I had problems when a bulb blew out on my 96E300D. Reading the posts on members with newer vehicles, it seems that Mercedes has built in a "self destruct" program with all its new electronics. As you mention, I would hate to have a long drive ahead of me and have one of those error messages pop up out of the blue. I would be sitting on pins and needles wondering if the car was going to go into "limp mode" at any moment. Not my cup of tea!!!!!
Think of it as an early warning system...which I'm simply trying better to understand.

The SBC is a great braking system....if once every 200k miles or so it needs to be serviced that's not a big deal.
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