It became an option on the 201 in that period too, 86ish maybe?
Curt

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  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.
>

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