AGC35
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- C class, C 180, 1996, Sport, Automatic, 1800
Hello,
About a year ago, I purchased a 1996 C class, C180, Esport, petrol, 1.8, automatic, RH drive, 120,000 miles, W202?
I live in Cornwall UK, by the sea, and I’d like to use this car until at least 200,000
Just whistled through MOT, with only a few advisories, but I’d like to get hold of a diagnostic scanner for it.
Background: A while ago, the following lights came on as I braked hard at a roundabout: ABS fault, Worn brake pads, & Low brake fluid level/Parking brake applied, plus the speedo went to 0. I continued driving and got home, turned the engine off, and later that day started the engine, and everything was back to normal. So worried, but as the days went by, forgot about it.
6 months later, it goes in for the MOT, and passes – but the very next morning, those lights come on again, and the speedo stops. I made my journey, driving normally, sounded like I was going through the gears alright, arrived home, turned off the engine, but when I started it again, those warning lights came on again, and the speedo isn’t working.
Within a forum, it was suggested that severe braking within the MOT test can set these warnings off. When I picked up the car there were no warning lights – maybe they’d been re-set? There was an advisory of ‘brake pads wearing thin’, and the car is booked in to deal with that.
Meantime, my question is: Is it OBD2 compliant, and if so, where is the port? Or is it something else?
Please advise as elsewhere many causes & solutions have been suggested for similar occurences, and I’d like to see what a scanner says.
Thanks in advance.
About a year ago, I purchased a 1996 C class, C180, Esport, petrol, 1.8, automatic, RH drive, 120,000 miles, W202?
I live in Cornwall UK, by the sea, and I’d like to use this car until at least 200,000
Just whistled through MOT, with only a few advisories, but I’d like to get hold of a diagnostic scanner for it.
Background: A while ago, the following lights came on as I braked hard at a roundabout: ABS fault, Worn brake pads, & Low brake fluid level/Parking brake applied, plus the speedo went to 0. I continued driving and got home, turned the engine off, and later that day started the engine, and everything was back to normal. So worried, but as the days went by, forgot about it.
6 months later, it goes in for the MOT, and passes – but the very next morning, those lights come on again, and the speedo stops. I made my journey, driving normally, sounded like I was going through the gears alright, arrived home, turned off the engine, but when I started it again, those warning lights came on again, and the speedo isn’t working.
Within a forum, it was suggested that severe braking within the MOT test can set these warnings off. When I picked up the car there were no warning lights – maybe they’d been re-set? There was an advisory of ‘brake pads wearing thin’, and the car is booked in to deal with that.
Meantime, my question is: Is it OBD2 compliant, and if so, where is the port? Or is it something else?
Please advise as elsewhere many causes & solutions have been suggested for similar occurences, and I’d like to see what a scanner says.
Thanks in advance.