IT is a CARB ploy. Kollyfurnia mandated a magical port for reading pollution failures. Everybody came up with his own solution, which made CA.gov confused how to hook up and read things, so they made a new regulation to make it standardized in all things, so the mirror foggers they employ can understand
clay 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green 1986 SDL - Polei 1982 300 SD - Allen retired models- 2002 s430 - Victor, a Stately & well tailored crap 1976 300D - Blei Vanst - it looks silvery 1972 220D - Gump - She was green, simple and ran 1995 E300D - Gave her life to save me against a Dame in a SUV POS 1987 SDL - Beware Nigerian Scammers > On Jul 27, 2018, at 7:19 PM, G Mann via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > The whole OBD 2, and up, electrical diagnostics system struggled into > existence until some genius finally put a "standard for all cars" [sort of > ] in late model year 1996. Early 1996 cars sometimes made the "new > standard" for plug in ports and sensor codes.. sometimes didn't, depending > on which manufacturer and which model. > > Earlier years, and models, used various types of plug ports and signal > systems to "identify" faults... sort of. > > 86 models, as a rule, didn't have much in the way of electrical fault > recording. _______________________________________ 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