What? Are you trying to tell me you can set your own text with SDS for the cluster? That's the funniest thing I've ever heard.

 

loving this. need to try this one out.

 

Question would be how did our Polar Bear do this

 

yes, we are all waiting for the answer polar bear. U gonna keep us out here in the cold or break the ice for us

 

Indeed you can. That was nearly a year ago - hard to believe.

 

Polar Bear:
1. Polar Bear has exceeded their stored private messages quota and cannot accept further messages until they clear some space.

 

In regards to your problem, that started to happen to my 2003 E320 like 6 months ago. It would come up and then after turning off and turning on the car back it would go away, then several days later it would come up again. I read in one post to check the Battery contacts on both the Main Battery (Trunk) and the one on the front. It turned out that the contacts on the Main Battery were a bit lose, after tightening them up, the message stopped showing up. I am not saying that this will be your case because you could have a different problem but you might want to check this out, it saved me a good chunk money I am sure!

 

I assume it is a diagnosis test step? Not like making the cluster permanently show what you want?

 

On a serious note here. I had this malfunction (electrical consumers switched off) for several weeks, sporadically. During a service the dealer gave me a rambling story about how batteries fluctuate blah blah - and basically said to live with it bacuse it could happen again. They 'reset' everything and 2 days later the malfunction was back.

We have a really informed 'indy' locally - he ran the diagnostics for 3 minutes and advised the alternator to be faulty. He was correct -it was actually overcharging at times and was forcing the fault. The alternator's rear end components were replaced with OE MB parts - problem solved. (Cost = approx US$300) I spent a lot of time chasing battery faults and testing wiring and fuses - the alternator fault is apparently quite frequent and is worth looking at as the solution.

 

That is correct.

 

has this battery issue been resolved ?
I have a 2006 model, and have 68,000km on my car. Will I probably be seeing this message in the near future ?

 

I could imagine it is. I think MB is pretty good in resolving known issues in their face-lift versions and later versions or by issuing DTBs.

 

fixed.