stevebfl,

As I have stated before, I am a rookie to MBs. I did not know ANYTHING about any commonalities within the many models of MGs. No, I do not megadollars of special test equipment for MBs either. (I HAVE ordered an ODBII interface for one of my laptops and the software, however) I do have a background in electronics and computer science, just nothing automotive.

I didn't realize that everyone here are professional MB owners/technicians. I appreciate all of your attempts to educate me. Generally, when it comes to automotive repair, the "blue car method", as you call it, along with small amounts of advice and good historical information usually works for me for most other types of cars, motorcycles and planes.

Again, my apologies to everyone for wasting so much of their time and bandwidth. I have found most of the people here to be very helpful and tolerable of my incredible lack of MB knowledge.

cl