ESP light / Yaw sensor / Scanner Tool options

[b830ag2]

Hi all,
I will try to keep this brief, to ease reading.
Car: '05 C-Class Sports Coupe, C180K.
Problem: ESP warning (MOT due soon)
Question: Should I take to someone with Star Diagnostics? Or buy a 3rd party reader to adapt the Yaw Sensor?

Basically, got MOT'd last year, had an ESP fault, but garage said wasn't an MOT fail and kindly gave me the fault codes;
C1161, C1152, C1151, C1150 - all referencing B24/15 Rotation Speed and Lateral Accln Sensor.

I bought a second hand Lateral Accln sensor and installed it, but looking online it seems it requires 'adaptation'. To do this I need to perform a 'road test', which can only be instigated by a Star machine.
However, I did read online somewhere, that a Merc owner had 'accidentally' instigated the road test when using his iCarsoft MB V2 machine.

So...I was wondering, might it be worth me buying an icarsoft MB V2 machine to attempt this? Or am I messing with fire? Would an icarsoft MB V2 even help me in this respect? Or is there even a cheaper scanner that I could use?

Many thanks.

 

[Riva811]

You can use it to clear out the code but usually they reappear on next startup if it's a genuine problem.
For example my aircon wouldn't work because I had a flat battery at some point and the error code stayed there waiting to be cleared out.

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[b830ag2]

OK thanks for that... Might do a bit more research.

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