Dealer repair codes

[benzboy87]

Anyone have the repair codes that dealers use? I am trying to determine what all has been done to my car from the repair records that the dealer has provided. There are pages and pages or I would just ask the service rep. to decypher it for me. Thanks.

[Mike Murrell]

Post the year and model of your vehicle. This will help those who might have such codes. If you have a CD for your vehicle or the MB repair manuals, you can decipher the codes.

Every service task has a code that's displayed at the start of that task in the hard copy manual or CD.

[benzboy87]

It is a '90 420SEL. Thanks.

[Mike Murrell]

The following may or may not help.

http://skinnerbox.steaky.org/Service/Library.html

[benzboy87]

The dealer service records and the repair CD codes do not match. On some of the entries of the dealer records there is a line that tells what was done such as "4201 - renewed brake fluid" but the repair CD lists that job as "42-0010 - bleed brake system, renew fluid". The numbers are similar for that but there are other codes such as 11m; 4205m; 20746270; 10N; etc.
There is absolutely no rhyme or reason. I also looked at the previous thread and went to that sight. The codes are the same as the CDs.
Anyone have any idea about this?

[Mike Murrell]

Originally Posted by benzboy87

There are pages and pages or I would just ask the service rep. to decypher it for me. Thanks.

Be it one entry on a work order or pages & pages, the only place to get an answer is from the place that created the work order.

Go back to the dealer and ask them to explain it. Pretty simple.