Recent content by nathanrobo

I have an '09 w204 estate, which has had a rear door issue for a while (stopped locking / unlocking on the key or with the other doors). I've been locking / unlocking the doors manually and opening the n/s door, the internal handle was a bit stiff and needed doing with care. This evening, my...

I did wonder about the fuel pressure regulator as I had something similar on my IL6 W211. Although you can definitely hear the lift pump for a while each time the car is cold. Is this more likely to be a lift pump or FPR fault? I take it that there's no question of a problem with the...

Not sure... In the summer I replaced the fuel filter as part of a big service and it's done a couple of thousand miles since. There shouldn't be any other way of air getting in should there?

I have an S204 (2009) which can be difficult to start. At first I thought it was glow plug related and allowed the glow light to come on a couple of times before starting. But then every now and then it feels as though there's fuel starvation. You can hear the pump in the tank pressuring up...

Thanks for the confirmation. I've disconnected the rear SAM - nothing on visual inspection. Next step STAR!

Is there anyone out there that knows the W204 really well? I have the estate and for some time now, I've had to lock the rear doors manually. I have a buddy with a similar model and was able to swap out both rear door control modules and could confirm both as working. If I open the door and...

I took the car into the legendary Albert Lock in Rushden yesterday. He put the Star on it, but no codes & it doesn't call for any adaptations. It's booked in for Friday next week. On the way down there, it's seems that the judder has given way to the transmission slipping (a bit less so in...

Normally that would be my approach, but the car has only done 6K miles since the last drain (including cooler and pipes), proper clean of pan and replacement filter. I suspect I'm in for a bill no matter what

My '09 C320 Sport CDI developed a judder today, which I at first thought was a flat tyre. To begin with the judder was occurring at between 60 & 75. It wasn't there all the time but was pretty severe when it happened. It couldn't be felt under hard acceleration. After about 100 miles the...

I often see police on their mobiles!

As 4life211 says, 10 litres is more than you'd expect. I recently swapped a 7g Tronic box out which has a similar capacity. The box was properly drained, the control module and valve body swapped (on the bench) - you would have struggled to get a thimble more oil out. Also flushed the cooler...

find a good indie, he might not charge for the diagnosis if he's getting the work. But I'd get him to read the fault after it's occurred, but importantly before turning the engine off.

I heard from an indie that when he worked for a franchised dealer that the mechanics were banned from taking out E63... as they used to compete, taking these cars out and leathering them to see if they could get the screen to crack... Wasn't sure if this was just 'street rumour' or whether...

Reading through the thread I wondered when the D question would come up... Any ideas what the depreciation slope will be compared with the C63?

Thanks guys... the hangup 1 # did work. Odd though that doing the same thing doesn't always bring the menu up. Having the diags available on screen is a great feature over what you could do with the older S211 :-)