Headlights flickering R230
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From: Central, IL
SL500
Headlights flickering R230
Hello all,
As the title states, I'm having issues with my headlights flickering on a 2003 SL500. It only does it when the battery is a bit low or when it's cold. The Ambient temp sensor always reads 185* when the lights are flashing and then corrects itself to normal ambient temp and the lights no longer flicker when it changes back to correct ambient temp.
I recently got a STAR C3 unit and hooked up today. It had a bunch of old codes so I started by clearing all first. Driving the car for a bit, and then coming back to see what came back. Here are my results from Quick Test:
Had a "!" on the Airbag. I dont know what that means..
I had 3 faults shown here:
Lower Control Panel code B1010
System Diagnosis code B1E40
Instrument Cluster code B1116
Any help is greatly appreciated as I'm very new to using DAS.
TIA
As the title states, I'm having issues with my headlights flickering on a 2003 SL500. It only does it when the battery is a bit low or when it's cold. The Ambient temp sensor always reads 185* when the lights are flashing and then corrects itself to normal ambient temp and the lights no longer flicker when it changes back to correct ambient temp.
I recently got a STAR C3 unit and hooked up today. It had a bunch of old codes so I started by clearing all first. Driving the car for a bit, and then coming back to see what came back. Here are my results from Quick Test:
Had a "!" on the Airbag. I dont know what that means..
I had 3 faults shown here:
Lower Control Panel code B1010
System Diagnosis code B1E40
Instrument Cluster code B1116
Any help is greatly appreciated as I'm very new to using DAS.
TIA
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From: Central, IL
SL500
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SL500 and S400
I had similar symptoms to your description. Temp read 185. A lot of lights were going on and off. ABC when up and down. I scanned the car and I could not see BNS or any SAM. I got a single wire code on CAN on my icarsoft reader. It all started after a dead battery and I had to jump it. I cam to the computyer and saw this post. I let the car run and now the car (or OBDC) sees the missing modules. I deleted lots and lots of codes and it seems to be working ok. now. After hours of playing with it. Very strange.
