Pg111
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- C200 Cdi 2001 estate 'Mary Benz'
Hi everyone,
Do 2001 C220cdi have some kind of special ability to learn how you drive and in a way remap themselves to suit?
Long and short of it is that this car I've been given keeps going into a sort of limp mode but its not limp mode. It drives great if I drive like a tw@ and thrash it everywhere but as soon as I get into traffic or follow someone and have to do a nice steady 30 it changes gear too early as in straight up the box still doing 25 and the throttle stops working beyond about 10%. It will still get to 80-90mph but just takes all day.
First thing is like it thinks I want it to drive like I'm 90 and secondly it doesn't give any warning symbols on the dash or flag anything when I plug it into STAR.
I've started thinking its a throttle position sensor but would this fault all the time or only after I've been taking it steady? Is there anyway of doing a DIY test on it with a multimeter?
Also a little note. I've tried it with a new MAF and its still the same.
Thanks! X
Do 2001 C220cdi have some kind of special ability to learn how you drive and in a way remap themselves to suit?
Long and short of it is that this car I've been given keeps going into a sort of limp mode but its not limp mode. It drives great if I drive like a tw@ and thrash it everywhere but as soon as I get into traffic or follow someone and have to do a nice steady 30 it changes gear too early as in straight up the box still doing 25 and the throttle stops working beyond about 10%. It will still get to 80-90mph but just takes all day.
First thing is like it thinks I want it to drive like I'm 90 and secondly it doesn't give any warning symbols on the dash or flag anything when I plug it into STAR.
I've started thinking its a throttle position sensor but would this fault all the time or only after I've been taking it steady? Is there anyway of doing a DIY test on it with a multimeter?
Also a little note. I've tried it with a new MAF and its still the same.
Thanks! X