E Active Body Control
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3 months / 8500km - love it.
One of my favorite packages - will include it in future orders.
- Curve mode - wonderful sensation on winding roads, on/off ramps etc, the reduced centrifugal force adds to the comfort and confidence esp when paired with the massive rear wheels.
Pretty cool listening to the actuators work when the cabin is silent too - Surface scan - smoothens the ride even more beyond airmatic
- Sport+ - additional body control, FUN when pushing harder, doesn't feel like a larger vehicle at all in this mode
One of my favorite packages - will include it in future orders.
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Road Surface Scan
IMO, it’s noticeable, but fairly subtle. Also, be aware it doesn’t work at night. In Comfort mode I find the ride pretty plush even with 21s.
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It’s just the Road Scanning that is not operable at night because it relies on cameras. All other functions work. And no, it’s not a night/day difference with/without the scan function.
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Personally, upon reflection of cost and E-ABC's effects, but without a ton of direct side-by-side comparison, if I had to do it over again, I'd skip the E-ABC and just get the air suspension. Other than the curve function and a few other modes, I didn't find a huge difference in overall on-the-road ride quality between the two. At least not enough to justify cost. At half the price, I could see it, but it's still not the S-class ride I was hoping for (which I know well). This is, of course, my opinion only and YMMV.
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To tell you the truth, I haven't even explored the Individual program yet. But, I just noticed an error in that referenced post (now corrected). I meant to say Road Surface Scan is active in "Comfort" & "Curve" modes. I'm sure there is no way to activate it in other modes.
This picture is from the GLS manual but I expect it to be the same for GLE (v167).
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My 53 is coming with AMG Body Control with air suspension. Would that be the same as Active body control. This is all standard on the Canadian GLE53.
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The AMG version has different versions of Air Suspension settings with a firmer ride but is more like the standard Air Suspension. Then there is AMG Active Ride Control that regulates the Sway Bars. E-ABC is more sophisticated and instantly varies ride height/compression of each wheel independently (oversimplification). There is a lot of detailed info in previous threads on this Forum.
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OK, I get it. I have the standard AMG air suspension. The active ride control comes with the AMG track package. My CLS53 has a variance of that, mostly trim and exhaust and track timer but nothing re: the suspension. I don't think I need that for my kind of driving.
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Or Canadian Market you will need to add Active ride control to your stander AMG tuned air suspension. Or you will get stander sway bar system instead an electronic control sway bar system.