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To Chip or Not to Chip...That is the Question
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Yes the top speed limiter + the cold start gear hold I would like to delete as well as get the WOT enrichment at some point. The gear hold now seems more manageable with the vacuum leaks fixed though. First really cold morning will tell that tale.
Not doing anything till I'm sure she is back to true condition 0 though!!
Not doing anything till I'm sure she is back to true condition 0 though!!
Correct on the model years for the limiter set speed. However IIRC on the 034 the limit is a mere 149MPH.
If anybody here did not know and ever wondered, the 130 mph (actually 210km per hour) on most of the USA versiom vehicles starting in model year '94 was done so that the cars could be factory fitted with the much longer wearing, lower speed rated, all season tires so loved by Americans.
Remember this is the era where things were just starting to be driven by JD power consumerism, something that people imagine to be fabulous, but that I find to be destructive in the long term. On one hand, it does prompt responsiveness towards the customer. On the other hand it results in the wholesale "lowest common denominator" dumbing down of interesting and / or iconic products.
A great example is this USA speed limiter thing. In my deeper emotional center, I absolutely abhor this. My more intellectual and practical mind wished for this out loud, as did those of everybody else involved in the sale and servicing of these cars.
Believe me when I tell you that you absolutely can not even slightly imagine the customer dissatisfaction and relationship issues that got to be commonplace as these cars were routinely fitted with lower profile and V, W, Z rated tires. Unless you were there, you don't have the slightest idea. Our 300SE customer really wasn't trying to hear that his 8500 mile and six month old car needed new tires because it was designed to safely cruise a damp Autobahn at 220kph. It might've been my favorite thing about this gigantic paragon, but it was not his!
You know what, none of these customers are trying to hear that today either, ironically least of all the AMG customer with the cord showing on the center of the rear tires, and the shoulders of the front tires at 3800 miles, especially since, as he reports he is just the gentlest of drivers. There are a bout a bazillion of these occurrences. You get to see this on the Internet with the opening line "You won't believe what those idiots at the stealership told me today!"
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The correct line would be: "You won't believe what those idiots were told at the stealership today!"
Too bad MB didn't just buy their cars back and send them to the Cadillac dealer down the street.
Oh that guy is down there to today telling them the same story about his supercharged CTS V! Only in that Internet post, the last line will be "I never got treated this way at the MB / Lexus / BMW (pick one) dealer!
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