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Hello everyone!
Long story short, since as you can see it's literally my first message on this forum and I HATE to subscribe forums just to ask for a help... But in this case I literally don't know what to do anymore.
I was given as work car an old (but fantastic) 2011 W212 E 250 CDI BlueEFFICIENCY with a 5G-TRONIC transmission (yes, it's an italian market thing) and FULL of small problems and mistreated since it was passed down a lot.
But I shall tell you, no other car is as comfortable and good to drive as this one. But the fact is, the car is still full of problems, it's got more than 250k km and... The last time I drove it i had to almost push it, since after about an hour of highway drive ( ~ 130km/h ) it suddenly lost engine power and literally kept going ever so slowly, only reaching 50 km/h on A SINGLE GEAR, stuck there with no auto or manual shifting, no power steering, no speedometer, nothing... Just driving on limp mode.
The only new code thrown was a generic "ESP EBV ABS inoperative" which didn't go away even after restarting the car, disconnecting the battery, trying (unsuccessfully) to use the MB me adapter obs thing and even trying the transmission reset thing, It immediatly appeared with the key on pos2
So, do you have any suggestion to try and save a car that will probably get misdiagnosed ?
Thanks in advance
Hello everyone!
Long story short, since as you can see it's literally my first message on this forum and I HATE to subscribe forums just to ask for a help... But in this case I literally don't know what to do anymore.
I was given as work car an old (but fantastic) 2011 W212 E 250 CDI BlueEFFICIENCY with a 5G-TRONIC transmission (yes, it's an italian market thing) and FULL of small problems and mistreated since it was passed down a lot.
But I shall tell you, no other car is as comfortable and good to drive as this one. But the fact is, the car is still full of problems, it's got more than 250k km and... The last time I drove it i had to almost push it, since after about an hour of highway drive ( ~ 130km/h ) it suddenly lost engine power and literally kept going ever so slowly, only reaching 50 km/h on A SINGLE GEAR, stuck there with no auto or manual shifting, no power steering, no speedometer, nothing... Just driving on limp mode.
The only new code thrown was a generic "ESP EBV ABS inoperative" which didn't go away even after restarting the car, disconnecting the battery, trying (unsuccessfully) to use the MB me adapter obs thing and even trying the transmission reset thing, It immediatly appeared with the key on pos2
So, do you have any suggestion to try and save a car that will probably get misdiagnosed ?
Thanks in advance
ps. I made a picture of the dash, if it can help
long story short: rusted wheel reluctor ring. Look that up with video in your language.
Confirm issues with whole chassis scan and ESP faults descriptions.
I had the right rear wheel speed sensor go out just like CaliBenzDriver described. It was on my W211, but it also had the 5G transmission. It didn't make the car go into limp mode and I drove it that way for a few months, but maybe the W212 software is being stricter about this system because of the way it ties into other systems the W211 didn't have...
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