Hi all,
Having been away for several weeks twice in the recent past I was not surprised that I had to Jump start the above car.
Its been fine for the last two weeks of occasional use perhaps 5 drives in that time, not sure if it has but had a feeling that there was a slight flare of revs on the 2 to 3 shift, was unsure if its always been like that.
This morning, cold and windows iced over I did my normal start up (which was fine) and went round clearing the windows of ice, on getting back in less that 2 minutes I had an ESP error, which I cancelled, it came back after 75 yards or so. I drove to my lift share pickup point (about 5 miles and all was fine but the ESP error was still there.
Tonight when I was dropped off and after reading about the error I started the car and went to full lock and held for a few seconds and to the other end and same, cleared the error, switched off and waited about 30 seconds. The error was gone.
Started the car and drove home 5 miles with no problems, I parked out side and turned off, restarted a few mins later to check the ESP error still not returned. I left the car outside in the road to wait on the other half to arrive and put her car in the drive first. Upon going back out to move mine in (3 hours later) I cannot get it to crank, I've tried several times and even swapped over keys as the battery was getting low on my normal set but no joy. no crank, lights are all strong and dashboard display lights up as it should, no errors displayed.
I'm leaving it for tomorrow as its dark, I have put a spare Battery on charge so that I have plenty of power, also have decent jumper cables (welding cable). plenty of tools and have a good working knowledge of engines and vehicles in general but never really had a lot to do with MB's of any sort.
Any common problems I should look out for??
Thanks in advance
Sam
Having been away for several weeks twice in the recent past I was not surprised that I had to Jump start the above car.
Its been fine for the last two weeks of occasional use perhaps 5 drives in that time, not sure if it has but had a feeling that there was a slight flare of revs on the 2 to 3 shift, was unsure if its always been like that.
This morning, cold and windows iced over I did my normal start up (which was fine) and went round clearing the windows of ice, on getting back in less that 2 minutes I had an ESP error, which I cancelled, it came back after 75 yards or so. I drove to my lift share pickup point (about 5 miles and all was fine but the ESP error was still there.
Tonight when I was dropped off and after reading about the error I started the car and went to full lock and held for a few seconds and to the other end and same, cleared the error, switched off and waited about 30 seconds. The error was gone.
Started the car and drove home 5 miles with no problems, I parked out side and turned off, restarted a few mins later to check the ESP error still not returned. I left the car outside in the road to wait on the other half to arrive and put her car in the drive first. Upon going back out to move mine in (3 hours later) I cannot get it to crank, I've tried several times and even swapped over keys as the battery was getting low on my normal set but no joy. no crank, lights are all strong and dashboard display lights up as it should, no errors displayed.
I'm leaving it for tomorrow as its dark, I have put a spare Battery on charge so that I have plenty of power, also have decent jumper cables (welding cable). plenty of tools and have a good working knowledge of engines and vehicles in general but never really had a lot to do with MB's of any sort.
Any common problems I should look out for??
Thanks in advance
Sam
