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Mercedes WIS / DAS Disk

Wully

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As we all know there are various sellers on the popular auction site selling copies of the above programs and what i want to know is:-
1) Are they worth buying?
2) What exactly do they contain? How to's?
3) What should you be paying for them?

Then again should i just get a Haynes?
 
Wully said:
As we all know there are various sellers on the popular auction site selling copies of the above programs and what i want to know is:-
1) Are they worth buying?
2) What exactly do they contain? How to's?
3) What should you be paying for them?

Then again should i just get a Haynes?

a) do you feel comfortable pulling apart your car ?

b) You can't install DAS !

c) what specific work do you need to undertake ?

d) do you have the Mercedes tools ?
 
Wully said:
As we all know there are various sellers on the popular auction site selling copies of the above programs and what i want to know is:-
1) Are they worth buying?
2) What exactly do they contain? How to's?
3) What should you be paying for them?

Then again should i just get a Haynes?

For the money they are okay. You get HOWTO's, part numbers and data cards. As they are so cheap, you only really need to use it once or twice to have had your money's worth.

I found my copy useful for obtaining the data card on a car I was looking at purchasing. Told me exactly what was fitted to the car from new!
 
Concur

I found them very useful and informative - it depends how geeky you want to get about your car.

I have the 209 and 211 series discs - v good.
 
I concur with all thats been said but you should definitely have a haynes anyway.

wish I'de got one ages ago but very useful
for the price but only if you are a little geeky
and dont mind faffing with it as part of the fun
 
Don't know if any of you have seen them lately but there seems to be 2 or 4 DVD sets.

Does anyone know what the difference is?
 
I think you'll find its 2 dvd's each for EPC and WIS - ie 4 for both

but why not ask the seller to confirm
 
grasmere said:
I think you'll find its 2 dvd's each for EPC and WIS - ie 4 for both

but why not ask the seller to confirm


It should be a 9Gb DVD. I dont think they have those in the former eastern block :crazy:
 
If its the full proper Mercedes WIS then its good, mine (genuine Mercedes) covers just about every model built as far as I can tell.
 
GSBellew said:
If its the full proper Mercedes WIS then its good, mine (genuine Mercedes) covers just about every model built as far as I can tell.


Most of the cars that are previously on microfiche are still on microfiche. All you get in WIS is the heading that they exist. It doesnt actually give you much data at all.

So its not ALL cars per se. It's just the ones most likely to be found in this club.
 

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