Hello from Vienna, MB E280CDI (3.2)

by **doctork** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 2:14 pm

Dear all,

I am located in Vienna, Austria. My current car is a MB E280CDI (3.2) 2005. This ones quite rare and was produced only 1,5 Years, they needed a successor to the 270CDI (5Cyl). So they just downtuned a 320CDI and named it 280CDI. Horses were 204 downgraded to 177. Obviously a good idea to tune it up to the 320CDI performance again.

When I bought mine, it was "chipped" already. Performance was good, but it felt like Pedal-tuned. I learned in the past days, that this must have come from a "too sporty" tuned Drivers Wish.

Anyway, I got a "Xentry Star Diagnosis", to get rid of the belt beep, and DVD Playing while driving and so on. While fiddling around, I did an "compression test". What I did not know, The SD flashed the ECU to 0 Injection (for the test) and than flashed back the original file, of course not the tuned one!

So my mission is, tune it back to 320CDI performance. I bought an MPPS V12 Flasher from Ebay. Guess I need balls of steel when flashing. If anyone has hints where to get good flashing hardware for a reasonable price, that would be wonderful.

In the meantime, I'm trying to learn locating the important maps for an EDC16 280CDI......

Best Regards - Clemens

by **doctork** » Fri Jun 13, 2014 2:19 pm

One additional thing, I am not going to be a commercial tuning pro, I just want to tune my car "back". Also, the star diagnosis I did only use for my own car. Well the china mux was around 300EUros with the risk to turn out as crap, but it works find. Guess I need some luck with my MPPS 12 China Clone....

Regards, Clemens