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Bazzle
27-05-2005, 08:33 AM
Gooday. (BAzzle from OZ)
My Oz delivered SLK230 auto 1998 only has the 28 pin round socket under the hood for the diagnostic connection.
I have searched the Net for a Code reader and have only come up with one mentioned on the site linked here http://pages.prodigy.net/jforgione/MB_S500.html
His 3rd menu item http://pages.prodigy.net/jforgione/mb_scnrs.html
seems to be the one to do the job, BUT costs $550 US dollars About $800 Aussie dollars.. wheww..

Doe any one know of an alternative that can be purchased that reads codes from this socket? for a fair price .. maybe similar to the US OBD2 scanners costing $40 US.

Cheers BAzzle

R2D2
27-05-2005, 09:29 PM
The diagnostic port on your Mercedes can give you about 10,000 readout or fault codes. I think you need pretty elaborate kit to read them. Sorry