STAR Diagnosis Benz S280 an Alarm Fault Oil Repair

An owner of Mercedes S280 sedan with W220 chassis says: " It is very ofen to see that engine oil is less than 2L on the car meter multi-function display. "
When I took the car, I pulled out the dipstick to check the car's oil level height is normal or not with V2015.05 MB SD Connect Compact 4 displaying oil Ievel temperature oil position and temperature. After asking the owner, I got that the car has been diagnosed in several large-scale diagnostic repair shops and they say the oil level sensor is faulty. And the sensor has been replaced in the two repair shop. Then they regarded the issue resolved because of the change of the sensor, but before long the multi-function meter will display on the oil than 2L.

Given the previously encountered failure and the solutions of replacing the oil level sensor, I decided to replace an oil level sensor. I then add the right amount of oil to refit after commissioning; the multifunction meter still shows the oil is less than 2L. Apparently, the problem was not oil level sensor. At this point I had some doubts that the car's mileage is not too much, but we had to consider whether there are some problem in the oil level sensor to the line between the right of the ME control module group or not. So it was measured with a multimeter oil level sensor 7 to 3 lead right side ME computer, which three lines are brownish-black, gray-blue and red and green. The measurements showed that each of the wires are normal, no breaks in. Is ME computer will be a problem? Of course, we can only think so, but must put it in the end. To accurately determine the fault, I have made a measurement of the line, but I still found no problems. Then, I continue to check the oil level sensor connector between right and SAM, but I found no bent pin, or damage to the phenomenon. The test sensor supply voltage is normal, with an oscilloscope measurement signal normal.

At that time, I was puzzled because if there is any problem on the multi-function display, ME computer, or CANBUS, MB SD Connect Compact 4 Wireless Star Diagnosis should be detected; however, we considered maybe the line virtual access are with some problems.

So we put the wires on the connector pin with a multimeter block to measure the voltage change between the voltage sensor and the right side of the SAM. The results were also found no abnormalities. And when we will lead with a pin inserted into the line terminal, the findings on the MB STAR multiplexer （I got the 2015.05 verison）showed that flashing on the black box of oil position, temperature and quality of the sensor and multi-function instrument dashboard also from time to time. If we remove pin lead and plug it directly, the fault would appear again. If we sway it back and forth by hand, the harness fault appear sometimes. Therefore, we drew a conclusion that the three pins on the right side of the engine computer connected to the oil position sensor B40 in the gray-blue line sometimes occurred virtual connection. After we dealt with it, the fault completely ruled out.

Having ruled out of the car after the failure, I got that in fact line virtual access problems on all types of vehicles are occurred relatively common, but it is relatively rare, in the Mercedes-Benz W220 chassis of the car because the level of technology of the car could not really make this failure occur. And because STAR diagnostic misled that the back and forth motion of the harness make the plug hard to change sometimes, and our fault diagnosis brought some resistance. It also illustrates that, no matter what kind of vehicle, it is very necessary to have the conventional fault diagnosis and logical thinking.

(Quote) too much info dedicated to MB Star

While searching for a fix for another member I have come across a blog dedicated to MB Star and it has 8 pages of how to's images and tutorials, as well as common problems with star units and how to go about fixing/updating them etc

Far too much info for me to copy and paste here so here is the link
Technical - http://blog.mbstartool.com/category/mb-star-tech-support/page/3/
Software - http://blog.mbstartool.com/category/mb-star-software-service/
The number 3 in the URL is the page number (last page at time of posting this is page 8), you can just change that to say 5 or 6 etc if you don't want to navigate through the "older posts" - "newer posts"

Around page 6-5 downwards it starts getting into tweaks for example a few are
gas tank mod
fan mod
lowering
seatbelt chime
tv/dvd while driving
SBC
Speed Limiter
Transmission
Telephone
TPMS
How to Chip your Multiplexer
the list goes on, it's a good read

* Mods if the link is not allowed on this site please remove this post
There seems to be quite a few STAR posts popping up so I hope this helps
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MB SD C4 Connect Error OBD365 Technical support

Getting an error message when I try to connect to the vehicle. It says "Initialization of diagnosis multiplexer failed...." [fault (1.1)-1.501.9551]. I have only used the machine once and now this is happening. Can you help me with this please?

Solution:
1) SETUP problem.
If you bought SD connect compact 4, please check the setup information. If IP address, WIFI setup all is ok. Please see the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql3vKstL_4k
2) Software problem.
If you bought SD Connect compact 4, you cannot use ordinary star software for c3/c4. SD C4 software only can be used on SD C4, cannot be used on other star, like c3, c4, super star c3. Other C3, C4, SUPER C3 software cannot be used on SD C4 too. Check if you bought the wrong software.
Do you install other software on the PC or HDD? Do you use anti-virus software on your PC? Another reason is your software is destroyed.
3) Firmware problem or connection problem.
Check your connection, if cable is connected rightly and tightly. Cable has problem? Cable is the right one?
If cable do not have problem. Check your firmware. If your software HDD is internal, then do the self test. star diagnosis

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Set up MB STAR diagnostic Xentry and DAS software language

CHANGE MB STAR XENTRY SOFTWARE LANGUAGE:
Step 1:
Open XENTRY software on the desktop. Select "System Setting" icon marked red below

Step 2: Select "Setting language" under System setting. Select the language you want on the right program.

Step 3: Click "OK" when the system pops out "Xentry must be restarted for these changes to take effect” message.

MB SD Connect Compact 4
CHANGE MB STAR DIAGNOSTIC DAS SOFTWARE LANGUAGE
Step 1: Right click the DAS icon on desktop to open DAS Properties and click Shortcut

Step 2: Replace "-len" in Target column to "-ide"

Step 3: Click "OK" to save setting.

MB star c3 2012.eleven CAL Error quantity 870 difficulty and remedy

Description
Soon after you active the software program hdd of mb star c3 2012.11, you use it to diagnose your automobile, and you also meet this difficulty:

Difficulty prompt: Internal error: Communication computer software error "CAL Error number 870", please speak to the user assist desk

Difficulty photograph shown:


Mb star Remedy:
Here may be the bin file. Download this file and put it to F:/Program Files das/bin. You then will solve this trouble. Right here is definitely the download website link of this bin file: http://www.mediafire.com/?uooc3c2cyegpd9f