It became an option on the 201 in that period too, 86ish maybe? Curt Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 8:28 AM, Curley McLain via Mercedes<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: The 85 R107 has ABS.
> Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes <mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com> > January 7, 2018 at 5:28 AM > I havent found that hill descent button yet. Will have to look for it! > Busy installing a class 3 factory hitch and wiring harness on the wife's > newish x5d. It was the only diesel suv I could find on the market. Hitch > (aka rear collision mitigation system) is pretty straightforward except > plugging a bunch of new leads into the fuse block and CAN bus setup. I am > also supposed to reprogram it to turn the trailer module setting on; will > have to see if my old VAG setup from the vw will do that. > > In Georgetown we had a little hill like that ending in a T with T > street. I > slid the 85 wagon down on glare ice one morning and ate an ice berm off to > one side to avoid running out into cross traffic. Then watched as every > subsequent car with abs managed the hill successfully, and every car > without abs slid down and ran into something. It was really something, all > happening in slow motion, watching those computers manage each wheel > multiple times per second. Abs is the only thing I feel the 85 td is > lacking. We did factory pickup on a new 84 audi; that car was so much more > advanced than an 85 mercedes, really. Abs was standard, and flush glass. > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
