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Old 03-19-2019, 08:52 PM
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Originally Posted by 97 SL320 View Post
Some people on the internet are complete idiots. This car uses a drive by wire throttle and does not have a hard throttle stop for min air nor an idle air control valve. This means that even if the throttle blade is sludged up, the computer will command the throttle to maintain proper idle speed even under load.

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Are you daft or something? A dirty throttle body absolutely will cause a stalling cold weather that's why Mercedes put out a TSB about this very issue on the m112 and M13 engines.

And no the sonnax kit won't fix this issue. The TCC problem does not cause stalling in cold weather.
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