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    W163 ML500 Suspension upgrade

    She handles like a car at times instead of a high up jeep/truck. But always remember she is very high off the ground, so will not corner like a low down race car. I have ended up with my vehicle sitting just right, NOT lowered and prepared for a race track. (It actually sits at the correct...
  2. W163ML500

    Eletronic Transmission Control

    All 100% fixed and on the road from yesterday morning. Thanks all for reading on what I was going through this end with my vehicle. I got a phone-call on Friday morning from MB dealership to say vehicle is all fixed, tested and working. They started Thursday afternoon, and finished first thing...
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    Eletronic Transmission Control

    here are the fake cables, X2 no less. Both these are made in Spain, no name, logo, brand, or anything. Then you see the original cable removed from vehicle, stamped, and logo. Even the price told me something is not right when I bought them from my MB dealership, as in £20 +vat, yet cheapest I...
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    Eletronic Transmission Control

    Just confirming and backing up what other MB suppliers are telling and showing me. I have a print-out of the American side of my vehicle on their database and parts catalouge Mercedes-Benz after sales and parts. Here also the same cable and part numbers from the WIS/EPC, but the garage owner who...
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    Eletronic Transmission Control

    Martyn_n, I have bought the cable from eBay, so now I will have this out tomorrow with the dealership here in Wales, and i suspect i may have to go higher up the chain of command in this branch, as I intend to right the wrongs I have suffered at the hands of this franchise/dealership. My only...
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    Eletronic Transmission Control

    Hi again, like everyone here, I am also trying to understand what is happening with this cable. Martyn, you may have spotted something the MB dealership has not picked up on until now. The cable number you gave me is the correct one for my ML500, RHD model, as this was the number inprinted on...
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    Eletronic Transmission Control

    I am going to simply tie a knot in the inner cable, Lift the ball and socket off the throttle pedal sensor arm, tie a knot in it and push it back on. Someone here did suggest a piece of plastic as a sleeve to extend the outer cable, but the outer cable has no way of doing this at either end of...
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    Eletronic Transmission Control

    Thanks petrol pete. I put myself in the dealerships hands, hoping for a simple little outcome of fixing my throttle after the cable was simply swapped out and the throttle pedal assembly. I never saw this happening, what i am encountering now, it beggers belief in this day and age.
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    Eletronic Transmission Control

    I have decided to go on Monday and remove my ML500 from this particular dealership called MB Sinclair of Swansea. I have thought long and hard over this and I have come to the conclusion this dealership is actually taking the mickey out of me. Then they said also they could not supply me a...
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    Eletronic Transmission Control

    here is the throttle attachment under the bonnet, and as you can see the throttle cable is too long on the inner, even with the adjustment at the end, the cable is still too lose.
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    Eletronic Transmission Control

    I have just returned home, saw your message, and like you, I am stumped with what is happening and why the dealership, not a back street garage, but the actual car maker dealership, is telling me the cable will not be with them until 8th July in Germany, and 4 days for shipping. Sinclair of...
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    Eletronic Transmission Control

    You and me both I am afraid to say. A1633010623 does not fit, and this is the problem they and me are having. A dealership also knows to check and re-check things like seating of pedal etc, but I know myslef this is 100% correctly fitted and seated. The throttle pedal assembly is idiot proof...
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    Eletronic Transmission Control

    Another update if anyone was still wondering on what has happened to my ML500 this end. Mercedes of Swansea delership just phoned me to tell me the throttle cable will not be shipped until 8th July from Germany, as had to be made to order. another 4 days for delivery, so 12-14 July before I can...
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    Eletronic Transmission Control

    Petrol Pete, yes an over-kill, but it might be something back then done as if you remember the world was shocked about aeroplanes and fake industry parts being used and sold as genuine in the US. Maybe Germany saying look, we know our parts and suppliers, as we have vetted them before-hand.
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    Eletronic Transmission Control

    Thanks for the thumbs up Petrol Pete. I am following in others footsteps on this vehicle, as lots of you have known them or had them in the past. I am still learning on this one, which seems to be a rarer SUV for the UK. I found this out afterwards, but I am still happy with the hooligan 5.0L...
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    Eletronic Transmission Control

    Every single part on my ML is logo marked Daimler benz, including even the radiator top hose. The throttle cable was marked/logo MB that was removed and even the ABS plastic pedal assembly. Austria were one of the right hand makers and Crysler/Daimler the US makers, of which all my parts are...
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    Eletronic Transmission Control

    I revived this thread folks to let you all know how I have got on with this problem of poor throttle. After paying £183 to have my ETC module rebuilt, coming back to me with no faults and 100% fully functional, I was stumped as to why still no throttle. My ML500 has now been at the MB dealership...
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    Rocker cover detailing

    I said already in the beginning of the post what i did and how i walked away knowing the damage was done, and the company also knew what they had done. I let it go and suffered the loss myself, as to go after the company, just one person who has just started up not long ago, would be out of...
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    Rocker cover detailing

    Yes water blasting with a medium, as in soda crystals. done wet with water, or dry with compressed air. These covers are Magnesium, not alloy,
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    unreliable throttle response

    The throttle problem is the exact same problem my end on my ML500 right now. All i did was replace my throttle cable and throttle pedal assembly due to old age and wear, and the pedal wobbling side to side. I had to get the vehicle to a MB dealership to fix. Exactly what DSM10000 above said to...
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