Originally Posted by LantanaTX
Through tons of research I was able to hook up with Beckman Technologies who is one of the only guys who has been able to hack the Mercedes computers and unlock used ECM's.
He also is able to use the SDS developer mode which is in German language only.
The other leading theory and the one that is closest to being proven is Kanzus. Kanzus has been great at sharing his experience and I hope he is successful as his approach is much easier than what I was planning.
Thank you LantanaTX, I hope success too
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As the mechanic level will be terminated soon: normally at monday 18-05-09, I will start level 2 of my CLK V6 to V8 55K project conversion which is electronics.
I have many idears and 3 possibilities to approach the problem:
1- simply use DAS Developper mode to encode the ECM and EGS ECUs;
2- swap EEPROMs from ECM to another;
3- make ECM virgin and recode it within normal DAS Module;
I tried DAS training module to see how developper mode works, and it's very interesting, espacially it is possible to recode ECU without SCN number which is only can be provided by MB itself.
My Goal is to start the car first, I hope it will start from the first possibility (DAS Dev). At a second time I will test the others and provide community a how to do manual : HOW TO HACK MERCEDES-BENZ ELECTRONICS
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I found an interesting software to virgin the ECM, but have to desolder EPROM reprogram then re-solder it.
How do you think about my approach?
Karim.