Help!BAS warning light and engine cut out SLK 200

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Hello
I've recently bought a 2001 reg SLK 200 Kompressor. The BAS ESP warning light comes on intermittently and today the engine suddenly cut out at a junction. Luckily, the car restarted again at the first try. Mileage is just over 32K.
I've searched through the forums and have seen a few posts with similar problems but call me a technobimbo :Oops: the solutions seem a bit too technical for me...

a) is this a serious problem? (the engine cutting out, not my technical lack of knowledge)
b) can anyone recommend a good independent garage/mechanic near weybridge where I can get the fault fixed without being ripped off

Many thanks in advance for your help
Tanya
 
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Reading might be a bit too far, specially if the engine keeps cutting out! could take me days...
 
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What about a mobile mechanic with a star machine.........................
 
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Thanks Alf230.
Is that a major job or easy enough to sort out?
 

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What about a mobile mechanic with a star machine.........................

I am pleased tat you have posted I was just thinking of you and if it was too far :D:D
 
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No its not too far i was in rochester in kent today so weybridge is just round the corner
 
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Thanks Willow!
Are you going to be 'around the corner' soon? :)
 

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if its the CPS, would it have restarted straight away with no cool down period?
 

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What would? Normally a CKS fault won't allow instant restart.

Of coarse it will not
Read it how you want to, but I was saying that it would not have started straight away if it was that
 

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No problem, it was just on first read it didn't read as if you thought that to be the case.
 
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Of coarse it will not
Read it how you want to, but I was saying that it would not have started straight away if it was that

so, I take it that it is probably not the CPS/CKS? Is that the same thing as the crank sensor? (I did warn you that I'm a technobimbo...)

Thanks for taking time to reply - much appreciated by a newbie
 

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No problem, it was just on first read it didn't read as if you thought that to be the case.

It was how it was all worded, forgive me through being ratty this evening
 

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so, I take it that it is probably not the CPS/CKS? Is that the same thing as the crank sensor? (I did warn you that I'm a technobimbo...)

Thanks for taking time to reply - much appreciated by a newbie

Yes that would be the same thing,you would have had to wait for quite a time if it was that.

How many times did it stop
 
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Just the once. The BAS warning light came on a couple of miles later.
 

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well it sounds like willow could soon be on the case so we will soon know whats broke
 

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Just the once. The BAS warning light came on a couple of miles later.

There is not that much to the BAS but STAR will tell you what that fault is.

The stopping is too hard at this stage
 


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