4-matic light

[SNOWCLOUD]

Yesterday the 4-matic light came on and stayed on on my wife's 92-300e
Visions of Xmas funds being transfered
to my dealers hands danced in my head.
After a trip to the dealer where I found out
that it would be several weeks before they would even look at it. I had a flash
nothing was going clunk, no funny noises,
so it must be electrical. So I disconnect the battery and let it set for 20 min. I then reconnected and guess what. the 4-matic
worked again, the light was out .and all was well. Of course I had to reset the radio code but everything works.
Up here in the far north this car is great

John Rogers Wasilla Alaska

[Robert Goodwin]

Congratulations on learning how to reset the memory on your computer chips. Have a Merry Christmas.

[Robby Ackerman]

It doesn't have to be expensive. My son pushed the button ('93 4-matic) that gives the error code flashes and the light blinked 5 times...a $16 brake light switch.

[Unregistered]

My light was on when I was taking my car in for an oil change the other day. Flashed a code 3-the hydraulic valve checked out so the brake switch was replaced. Car test drove fine, after that the light came back on. I needed the car for Christmas. After putting several hundred miles on it, it suddenly went out though the bulb is good, In test mode it comes on. i had tried the battery reset, also moving the switch a number of times back and forth from Test. This had noi effect, than it fixed itself, or so it seems. Any explanations aside from a divine miracle?

[Unregistered]

Dear Unregistered,

Since I haven't the time to wait for a devine miracle, can you provide a little more information about your car? What is it? 124? 210? Something else? Miles?

[Robby Ackerman]

My son is driving a '93 300TE 4 Matic with about 160,000 miles on it and Continental tires. Earlier this week we had 10" - 12" of snow and we used his wagon to bring some of our nurses in to work.

We had a competition to see which car could make the best time around the block; his 4 Matic or my 2.3-16. When the 2.3-16 didn't reappear we sent the 4 Matic out to tow it in.

The 300 TE 4 Matic and team Red ready to go:

[Robby Ackerman]

And prepping the competition ....

[Robby Ackerman]

But not moving very fast:

[Robby Ackerman]

Once we got it moving it didn't stop. :(