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new owner 95 e320 "idle speed control inoperative"

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Old 04-28-2016, 02:55 PM
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new owner 95 e320 "idle speed control inoperative"

hello new to the forum. Just bought a 1995 e320 geo green sedan with 128k mi. The car runs great and is in pretty good shape interior wise but the body has quite a few minor scrapes nothing major. I would like to fully restore this car to factory condition I have cleaned the interior to a point that it's like a space station. My next priority is repairing any mechanical issues and then onto body work. My question relates to the check engine light.

I got 6 blinks and that is the only code coming up which is apparently "inoperative idle speed control" the car idles at about 700 which I imagine is proper for this engine, seems to be running fine but I would guess needs a basic service. Any ideas on how to fix or what might be causing an inoperative idle speed control when it seems to idle fine? Forgive me if a search could have resolved this but I couldn't seem to find anything



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Bump any ideas? On a side note my cigarette lighter didn't work before couldn't charge my phone found another Mercedes in the junkyard pulled out the ashtray thought it would go in the same but the wood is slightly bigger but I was able to pull the lighter part out and replace mine now I'm in the modern era!
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Hi will you look under the hood at the throttle linkage, You will see two micro switches check them to see if they work . Just pull the linkage away from the switch and it will click if its working.
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Can't seem to find he switches

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