DAY 758 (since first post)

Today's plan:

This has been a busy morning picking brains! Robert Kraus and I have been in contact this morning with Rudy (Rcompart), Marty Vellozzi of LMV Industries (He trains MB mechanics all over th country), and Bob Beckmann. We believe we have either a CAN problem or ECU probelm. Since the CAN worked fine before and that fact that the ECU was involved in a violent rearend collision and fire and then sat around for seven years and maybe got moisture in it, I am betting on the ECU. As a plan B I found a great deal on a replacement ECU this morning on Ebay and bought it.

today we are going to put my ECU in another Benz and program it to that car and see if the car starts. doing this has two benfits. 1 we will know if the ECU is good and 2. puting the ECU in another car will reset the key turns we have left before it automatically locks. We are not worried about losing the coding we have as that has all been copied and can easily put back in my ECU or the replacement ECU I have coming. If we have to use the replacement ECU, it will need to be sent to Beckmann to be unlocked which means I am looking at late next week before the project is 100% finished.

We are thinking that we may take the car for a drive today if we have any time left over.