EPC Confirmed to be Phased Out with new replacement coming: XPPIS / ISPPI

[Vinnie]

Nemigaparts.com is a Great resource. Mbepc.com is another.

They are solid/reliable IME.

Jono

Thank you! At least nemigaparts.com works for me. Although that seems to be associated with Belarusian company, and considering the current political situation there, I don't know how long it may be accessible.
MBepc.com redirects now to Marc Barry Engineering, but this must have changes not long ago. I recall I used mbepc.com some time in the past.

I still recommend using the EPC that is found in the pre-packaged images available through this forum, for Oracle VirtualBox and VMware Fusion. These are factory items, and include the WIS if you need it. Otherwise, as Jono mentioned, there are decent resources online as well.

I have not seen any announcement that the ISPPI will no longer be made available to the public. If so, that is news.

That being said, the ISPPI, at least here in the US, is offered through MBUSA channels. See top center of the attached screen shot.

The ISPPI in Europe is similar, I think the background image in my case was different. I haven't seen the announcement on discontinuation of access to ISPPI too, but to be honest - I did not read those info messages signaled with red dot over the triangle. They mostly were about interruption of service during night hours, so I started to ignore them. Maybe one of those was about discontinuation of access.

 

[Vinnie]

So far nothing changed - I can't renew it. I checked whether maybe there something else instead and they added a link to Mercedes-Benz Used Parts:



It simply redirects to MB GTC B2C Shop | MB GTC B2C Shop , and at the bottom there is the following info:

Operating under the famous Mercedes-Benz star, we offer affordable repair services for workshops, taxi companies, fleet operators and, of course, your private Mercedes.As the first proprietary dismantling facility of it's kind, we specialise in recycling Mercedes-Benz components, from the 190 to the SL. Our repair solutions are in accordance with the current market value of the vehicle and tailored to models such as the 124, 129 and 140, all current series, as well as A-Class, B-Class, C-Class, E-Class, S-Class, G-Class, R-Class and commercial vehicles like the Sprinter, Altego and Actros.

That looks like alternative source of parts (my immediate feeling was "oh, yes!"), but when searching by Vehicle Type it goes back at most to W210, and search for any part from my "to find list" gave no result.

Having no access to the thread with forum images of EPC I bought one via eBay. For about 4$ (I picked thee cheapest one available) that was hardly any risk. That gave me EPC under VM, and surprisingly that works quite fast and I'm not noticing any delays. I thought that WIS will provide me also with wiring diagrams, but there are hardly any there for W124 (no matter E220 or E420).

 

[gerryvz]

You can have the full EPC + WIS for free via this forum. I have created downloadable VM images for the free Oracle VirtualBox and VMware Fusion that you can download and freely use.

Were you not aware of this capability from this site?

https://www.500eboard.co/forums/threads/epc-isppi-wis-asra-and-ewa-net-information-on-buying-installing.3724/post-207699

 

[Vinnie]

Were you not aware of this capability from this site?

https://www.500eboard.co/forums/thr...rmation-on-buying-installing.3724/post-207699

Surely I was But for me that thread results in:

Oops! We ran into some problems.​

You do not have permission to view this page or perform this action.

I supposed that maybe I do not have sufficient Points/Reaction Score/etc, what was kind of understandable (that surely was an effort to prepare those images, and now imagine new guy, just registers, jumps in to grab whatever is available and is gone).

 

[gerryvz]

Are you really sure about that?

 

[Vinnie]

Well, for a moment I thought that maybe working too much made me so tired, that I do not control myself what I click and see, but I still had that tab opened (and I recall that was the effect I saw a few weeks ago):



But...it works now I don't know whether I've been granted access just now, or something fixed by itself, but anyway thank you for the effort of providing those images of EPC!

 

[gerryvz]

I just received notification from MB that starting as of January 2022, they are raising the annual price of the ISPPI to $92, from the former price of $79. Prior to the prior price increase, the ISPPI was initially offered at $75 annually.





This makes the 500Eboard "EPC+WIS" virtual machine download an even better deal for parts information.

The one key benefit I see to the ISPPI at this point, is that it does include up-to-date supercession information for many parts (although generally if parts are ordered using the old part numbers, the supercession will show up at the time of ordering).

 

[zentoed]

Hmmm, I was not aware of this capability. I purchased a Vmware version but it has been a hassle because my computers are too old to run the latest versions of Virtual Machine and finding free copies of older versions didnt work out.

But I also get the

Oops! We ran into some problems.​

You do not have permission to view this page or perform this action.

 

[gsxr]

@zentoed , try the link again... should be fixed now.

 

[zentoed]

@zentoed , try the link again... should be fixed now.

Thanks, it is indeed working for me now.

 

[socal210]

The link is not working for me as well. Any chance that I can have access to it as well?

 

[gsxr]

@socal210, try it again...

 

[socal210]

@socal210, try it again...

appears to be working. Thank you!

 

[Bashterm]

Also having issues with the link.

 

[gsxr]

Also having issues with the link.

Try it now and see if it's working.

 

[MERCEDES26]

Me too gsxr...ooops...We ran into some problems error..!

Regards
Rick

 

[gsxr]

Try it again, Rick!

 

[cargen]

Sorry to bump up an old thread; can I also get access to the link?

 

[gsxr]

@cargen, try it now...

 

[Alphasud40]

I ran into this a while back. Checked again this morning and I don’t have access.

 

[gerryvz]

I ran into this a while back. Checked again this morning and I don’t have access.

Try again ?!?

 

[sushipaste]

Link doesn’t work… can someone just host the download on google drive?

 

[sushipaste]

Oops! We ran into some problems.​

You do not have permission to view this page or perform this action.

 

[gsxr]

Link doesn’t work… can someone just host the download on google drive?

Which link?

BTW, welcome to 500Eboard, Sushi!

 

[sushipaste]

Which link?

BTW, welcome to 500Eboard, Sushi!

In Gerry’s post #103 for the epc vm images he was talking about:

Post in thread 'EPC Confirmed to be Phased Out with new replacement coming: XPPIS / ISPPI'

Nov 12, 2021

You can have the full EPC + WIS for free via this forum. I have created downloadable VM images for the free Oracle VirtualBox and VMware Fusion that you can download and freely use.

Were you not aware of this capability from this site?

https://www.500eboard.co/forums/threads/epc-isppi-wis-asra-and-ewa-net-information-on-buying-installing.3724/post-207699

• gerryvz

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[gsxr]

In Gerry’s post #103 for the epc vm images he was talking about:

Ah, got it. The forum has restricted permissions for new users. I think you get automatically "upgraded" after X posts or something like that.

I tried editing your profile, see if the link works for you now...

 

[topinhas]

Hello

Sorry to bother, but I don't have acess to the EPC link too. Can you please correct that?

Thank you very much.

Kind regards

 

[gsxr]

Hello

Sorry to bother, but I don't have acess to the EPC link too. Can you please correct that?

Thank you very much.

Kind regards

I believe @xfadmin has fixed this - please try again!

 

[gerryvz]

I believe @xfadmin has fixed this - please try again!

Let me know if this problem is un-resolved and if @The Emperor genie lamp needs to be rubbed......

 

[sushipaste]

Ah, got it. The forum has restricted permissions for new users. I think you get automatically "upgraded" after X posts or something like that.

I tried editing your profile, see if the link works for you now...

Thank You it worked!

 

[jmanbball]

I'm running into the same issue. Would it be possible to get my account changed so that I can get access to the thread?: https://www.500eboard.co/forums/thr...rmation-on-buying-installing.3724/post-207699

 

[gsxr]

I'm running into the same issue. Would it be possible to get my account changed so that I can get access to the thread?: https://www.500eboard.co/forums/thr...rmation-on-buying-installing.3724/post-207699

Done!