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Hello everyone, can someone equipped with the right tools do a VIN look up for me. (Assuming it makes no difference the vehicle was sold in The Netherlands). I like to know the list how this vehicle left factory, motorcode etc. I need a new startermotor and there is a choice of three, I want to...

Tonight when driving home the yellow Check Engine Light came on and stayed on. The manual says it's the motor management system that needs attention, what can it be? It's the 2008 C230 V6 (272 eng.) and has some 160.000 km at the odo (100K miles) so it can very well be one of the O2 sensors...

For those who still don't know, your key is not a floating device. Last Wednesday my wife and I went to Germany for a 4 days stay in a hotel along the Bitburg Stausee to celebrate our wedding anniversary. A kilometre along the lakeshore you could rent paddleboats and being mr. romance I took my...

The sevice history of my 2008 S204 C230 is only documented until 2014 Service A at 102.000 km, today the odo says 156.000 km. so the past months I've been busy to refresh anything that contains fluid. Yesterday it was box time, I know a specialist who's only activity is flushing autoboxes, he...

My S204 C230 V6 takes about 15 minutes (driving) to reach operating temperature, I know it's cold weather but this has to do better. I suspect a stuck open thermostat. Question: what's the temperature range of this thermostat. Aftermarket ones I found open at 100ºC and include housing and...

The rear wiper does strange things. Sometimes it parks somewhere halfway the swipe, sometimes not. This can be the motor gear dirty or worn, or one of the two relays. When I look at the fuse location table there is a relay in front and one in the rear, swapping them makes no difference. The...

The past few days we also had our share of winter (a bit), when I unlocked my C230 and opened the driversdoor the mirror refused to unfold. I realised the mirror mechanism could be frozen so relocked, unlocked again and entered through the rear door. With a heatgun I carefully warmed the mirror...

2008 S204 C230 with 7G tronic. I have a question about the use of the comfort/sport mode. Apart from the obvious functinality I was wondering if it should be wise to permanently use the sports-mode. From the days I owned a P38 (previous disease I'm cured from) I remember I used the sport mode...

My 2008 S204 estate has the standard 17" alloys fitted with Uniroyal Rainsport 225/45 ZR 17 summertyres. For the winter to come I bought a set of almost new Vredestein Snowtracs 205/55 R16 M+S fitted on (obvious) 16" steel rims 7Jx16 H2 ET43, so far all according owners handbook. Q.: Can I use...

The W/S 204 has foldable mirrors, if desired. My right mirror, in folded position, touches the chrome doorfinisher in a way that there is already a dent in the finisher. A small one, but still. Is there some sort of adjustment inside the housing that it keeps clear of the finisher or is it just...

Since a few months I'm the proud owner of a S204 C230 from 2008. Not knowing it's service history I started refreshing all fluids for Original MB stuff. The coolant it has now is from Carex, the stuff is pink and the spare bottle says it is protected until -26ºC, it is ready to use and may not...

I'm getting a message that a passenger on the rear seat does not use the safetybelt (in Dutch of course) but there is nobody in the rear! I must say I have had the rearseat removed last week so I'm wondering if I have messed up some sort of sensor if there is any?

As follow-up on my previous post I'm replacing damaged parts of my C230. The parts to be replaced are: front bumper assembly both headlamps both headlamp frames radiator/AC condenser/PS oilcooler bonnet/grill RF fender front-bottom enginebay cover To get it all nicely lined up and for...

Hello everyone, this a 'better safe than sorry' question. The frontend of my S204 is damaged and I'm starting the repair which may include some hammering on the front inner bumperbeam. Knowing the two airbag sensors fitted there, is it sufficient to just undo them or is it wise to pull the...

Just to say hello from the Netherlands, it's rather fun being a newbie at 67. New to the forum, not to MB. My first Mercedes I bought in 1972 which was a '64 190 heckflosse on petrol, through the years I've owned a 5 pot 300D, it needed more oil than fuel, a C200 and a C220 from the mid-'90s, a...