I already posted this earlier on banned so some of you may have seen it. I have banned on the computer at home and the main list on the one at the office so the two never meet.
In any event, one of the things that I have been advised to do by the list, is to change the brake fluid. I had the rear wheels off on Saturday so I bled the back brakes. The old fashioned way - my wife sat in the car and pressed the brake pedal when I asked her to and let it up when I asked her to while I opened and closed the bleed valves. I tried to drain the resevoir down pretty good in order to get new fluid in, and then bled it again. I have not yet done the front wheels. In any event, I have now created an issue as the brake light will not go out on the dash. I have looked at the owner's manual and it tells me that the light will come on if the fuid is low or if the brakes are leaking. I have also looked through the cd service manual and it comments in a similar fashion but does not tell me how to re-set once the light is on. I note that there is a switch on the resevoir and I assume there is a float attached to some sort of rod on the back part of the resevoir under the little rubber cap. I have pushed up down on that a couple of times in the hope that it would pop back up. The resevoir appears to be full of fluid. I have also rapped on the side of the resevoir with a screw driver handle to no avail. The brakes appear to be normal so I do not think it is telling me anything but has been triggered by my intervention and is stuck on. I drove the car to Grand Forks, North Dakota and back on Monday - about 250 miles round trip at highway speeds. Vibration has not corrected my problem as I hoped it might. So, I am about to look closer. I just wondered if anyone had experienced this and had any sage words of advice. Randy By the way - it ran real nice on the highway. 4 of us in the car and the trunk full on the way home. It did not seem to mind 70 mph and I had to keep backing off as I would have ended up going 80 mph. Driving them is obviously good for them as I do not think it would have done that when I got it. That was about 7K miles ago and some of that has been highway travel so I appear to have cleaned out the carbon. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
