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Decided I did indeed need to go out in this afternoon.
Opened the car (keyless, so just pulled the handle), the pump under the bonnet starts to do it's thing (never did work out what) and then on come the warning lights in a nice shade of red.
"Reduced brake effect. Start the engine" alternating with "Incr braking distance. Start the engine".
Duuuuh .... so started the engine & all ok. No stored malfunction
The book states that "the battery has insufficient voltage & cannot supply sufficient power to the SBC braking system".
Why then did I not get "electric consumers offline" ???
My drive was all of 3 miles round trip, slowly, with headlights & wipers on all the way so not much chance of charging up a low battery. Put a meter on the battery when I got home - 13.2 volts
Does SBC have any sort of reserve system (I suppose the opposite of vacuum reserve)?
Has something fallen off? Is this likely to happen again? Could it have been "one of those things" at which Mercedes are masters? Does SBC stand for "Sad Brainless Car"?
Any pointers please? R230 SL55
It wouldn't be a complete week without some form of mechanical interference!
Opened the car (keyless, so just pulled the handle), the pump under the bonnet starts to do it's thing (never did work out what) and then on come the warning lights in a nice shade of red.
"Reduced brake effect. Start the engine" alternating with "Incr braking distance. Start the engine".
Duuuuh .... so started the engine & all ok. No stored malfunction
The book states that "the battery has insufficient voltage & cannot supply sufficient power to the SBC braking system".
Why then did I not get "electric consumers offline" ???
My drive was all of 3 miles round trip, slowly, with headlights & wipers on all the way so not much chance of charging up a low battery. Put a meter on the battery when I got home - 13.2 volts
Does SBC have any sort of reserve system (I suppose the opposite of vacuum reserve)?
Has something fallen off? Is this likely to happen again? Could it have been "one of those things" at which Mercedes are masters? Does SBC stand for "Sad Brainless Car"?
Any pointers please? R230 SL55
It wouldn't be a complete week without some form of mechanical interference!
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