Fixed airmatic wire short
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Fixed airmatic wire short
A few days ago, my 2003 E500 gave me an "Airmatic-Visit Workshop" message. Everything seemed fine, so I decided to ignore the warning until I had time to buy a code reader. This morning when I went out to the garage, the suspension was raised up to maximum height on all four corners; I remember reading the airmatic pump ground wire breakage thread; sure enough, when I removed the driver's front wheel well liner, I saw the broken wire. I stripped and soldered the wire, and was happy to see my car settle back down to Sport I a few seconds after hitting the key. The airmatic warning also disappeared off the cluster. I've only owned the car for about a month, and the airmatic has never left the car sitting level at shutdown, it always had a slight tilt towards the driver's side. Now, it sits perfectly level. And it sits a bit lower in Sport I and Sport II than it ever has.
Last edited by foreyes; May 16, 2010 at 06:06 AM.
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airmatic and ABC are like very hot women. when everything works fine, things couldn't be better. when things go a little south... eeeeeeeeyyyyyy... things get ugly 
lol btw, love the user name, foreyes, very fitting for the w211
lol btw, love the user name, foreyes, very fitting for the w211
Last edited by gaazmon; May 16, 2010 at 04:21 AM.
