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Old Aug 30, 2012 | 05:51 PM
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Hello MBWorld Members! New member here and new Mercedes owner for that matter. I've always had an American and/or Japanese car, but years ago fell in love with the W210 E55 AMG. I've finally been able to acquire one now that it has depreciated enough. Here is my 2001 E55 AMG with 130K mi, but in pristine condition.

My question is.. this sucker has a lot of torque, and at times when I put too much pedal to the metal I see a yellow exclamation mark in a triangle on the instrument cluster flash a few times? I searched online and cannot find what that is indicating? Thanks!


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Old Aug 30, 2012 | 06:06 PM
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Wow nice specimen/clean looks so cool! this yellow triangle is telling you the rear tires are trying to spin and the traction control slow down the torque of the engine to prevent that. you will see a little switch in the center console (left side to the shift knob) ESP off, when you depress it you will see the yellow triangle stay on telling you the "ESP IS NOW OFF" this way you can drag/spin the tires without traction control depress it on the dawn side and will turn on the ESP again (Yellow triangle off) Enjoy

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Old Aug 30, 2012 | 06:08 PM
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Welcome aboard mate

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Old Aug 30, 2012 | 07:20 PM
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Nice car!
I don't know if your car came with the Owner's Manual,but if it did,you can have a lot of questions answered just by reading it. This would've been one of them.
Enjoy!

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Old Aug 30, 2012 | 07:45 PM
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Old Aug 31, 2012 | 12:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Vega_AMG
Hello MBWorld Members! New member here and new Mercedes owner for that matter. I've always had an American and/or Japanese car, but years ago fell in love with the W210 E55 AMG. I've finally been able to acquire one now that it has depreciated enough. Here is my 2001 E55 AMG with 130K mi, but in pristine condition.

My question is.. this sucker has a lot of torque, and at times when I put too much pedal to the metal I see a yellow exclamation mark in a triangle on the instrument cluster flash a few times? I searched online and cannot find what that is indicating? Thanks!
It means - you are using up valuable rubber on your rear tires
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Old Aug 31, 2012 | 01:18 AM
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Hey thanks for the explanation Fabio D! And thank you for the other replies as well. Yes it did not come with the Owners manual so I resorted to this Forum for your guys insight I would like to get the manual though, I see some available on ebay.
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Old Aug 31, 2012 | 01:20 AM
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No only 1 Key FOB, but I discovered the latch on top of the FOB releases some sort of backup key that's part of the FOB keyring holder, cool!
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