How to reset the air suspension on a Mercedes W205

Pneumatic failure is one of the types of damage that directly endanger the safety of vehicle occupants. To avoid awkward situations during its operation, Obd2tool team will help you to check and deal with this error in the next article.

What is Airmatic? This system basically includes front and rear air suspension tubes, an air compressor, a central air tank and a control box. Airmatic’s mission is to keep the car stable even on the bumpiest roads by absorbing bumps and shocks and providing comfort from the driving experience to the smoothness of the passengers and all ages.

Airmatic malfunction:

The easiest sign is that you will see that your car will be lower than normal and on the central dashboard there will be an error message displayed.

There are many causes of problems on Airmatic:
* Defective strut
* AirMatic Compressor broken
* The relay or fuse of the air suspension system burnt
* air divider valve
* Failure of the lift control box
* …..

In this writing, we will show you how to reset Airmatic suspension.

How to reset Airmatic Mercedes?

* Required software and connected devices for reset Airmatic Mercedes:

To fix this error, you need to prepare:

* Software: DTS Monaco or Vediamo. These are two specialized software used to program and re-code the ECU boxes on the vehicle system.
* Connecting device: MB Star C4 – this is a diagnostic, coding, programming, reading and debugging device,… for Mercedes-Benz vehicles. (this device is required)

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Remedial steps

After preparing the necessary software and equipment. We will proceed with the following steps:

Step 1: Connect the Xentry on the computer to the vehicle and identify the Airmatic control box as the SPC222 box.

Step 2: Run the DTS Monaco software and connect to the SPC222 box.

Step 3: Run the CFF flash file again

Step 4: Re-code the ECU box SPC222

Step 5: Check the system again on Xentry

Step 6: Test drive the car to check if the system is working properly or not.

These are the steps to reset the Airmatic using the encoding software. However, these operations require users who are experienced in using coding software with absolute precision. If you are inexperienced with this, we are happy to support remote coding with a team of professional technicians. Contact us today to minimise your exposure.