efficiency

Evening, Just wondered if any body has a newish e class 200cdi? My wife's car is approaching 3yrs old and she has an e220cdi. Not been a bad car, but she's only averaged 33mpg since she's had it. On a motorway at 65mph, it only does low 40's. The 200 looks a tad slower on the 0-60 etc...

Is anyone else experiencing major problems with the reliability of their Blue Efficiency cars? I have a C200CDi estate that is getting increasingly unreliable. The latest problem is a faulty near-side rear wheel bearing that needed replacing after 31000 miles, only for the replacement to fail...

I am thinking of buying my first Mercedes, a 2009 Blue Efficiency C220 CDi Sport saloon (s/h). I had read of some bad press regards the fuel injectors. How serious a problem are they? I would like to think Mercedes have it sorted it by now? I test drove an early C class diesel (W203?) some...

Guys Can anybody help me help a friend please? Car is a new (Feb10) ML as above - let me know if you need any further details. It has recently been left standing for a couple of months during which time the battery (predictably) drained completely. Restarted OK with the help of jump...

I was given an E250 (petrol) hire car while mine was in the garage for a week to run around in and after a week of driving thought I'd post some feedback. Don't be fooled by the badge its an 1800 turbo under the bonnet and while you can feel its a 4 pot the power is pretty amazing with 200BHP...

Hi I am thinking of getting my E350 CDi BE (2010) chipped. I know there are various manufacturers out there doing perfomance chips. Has anyone had this done on such a new model? How does it affect the MB warranty? Worth doing or not? I hear the fuel economy is improved too...?

Hi. I have a 2009 W204 C220cdi Blue Efficiency Sport Estate which has the OM651 engine. I understand that this engine is also used in the rest of the range in the C200 and the C250 Blue Efficiency's. I was wondering if there was any differences other than engine software between the C220 and the...

The current A,B,C and E classes are the only new cars with blue efficiency engines. Where is the incentive to buy any new current SLK and SL car if they still got the old engine(non Blue efficiency). Then there is the Blue efficiency CDI to avoid. There is a follow up with Blue direct...

Just to get an idea of how many E Class CDI Blue Efficiency Coupe/Saloon owners are experiencing Injector, ECU or other problems. Date of manufacture, may help too.

Hi Guys I'm new to this forum and thought you might like to know of another potential problem other than injectors on the new C250CDI - MB of Stafford have had my car now for 7 weeks after going in for its first 16,000 mile service after getting it 5 months previously. I had noticed a puff of...

Hi All I have the E220Cdi W210 (pre-facelift) 2005 and am not getting the fuel efficiency I should be expecting on this car. Around town I average about 28mpg and on a run 38mpg. I have done the following to the car but have still had not luck in achieving the efficiency that other members...

Right here goes, I am brand spanking new member (only just signed up about mins ago) and have been an avid BMW driver for the past 5 years and have decided to make the leap and by a Merc. Now I have looked around and read as much as possible but still have some unanswered questions which I...

I have a 2001 E240 Estate and last week the Engine Management light came on. The car continued to drive well so waited until today to investigate. My Gendan EOBD interface was hot-wired into the 38pin socket and the codes downloaded by the Engine Check software. Two Stored Codes: P0422...

Jst picked my car up- fingers crossed injectors will be ok.They asure me there will be no problems! Just gone through paperwork - no service book. Dealer tells me they do not come with one, as service will be logged on computer when wrequired/ Is this correct?

We have all been knocking the poor cars for months now whther or not our particular one has broken down. If it isn't injectors it's poor mpg. Well I for one am very pleased with mine and at 3000 miles or so it's loosening up nicely. It's quite a strange car to drive. You can make effortless...

Dealer tells me it is a 'glue' failing within the injectors. I know that glues/adhesives are quite spectacular in their performance i.e. aircraft, rockets etc are held together by them but was this this a problem from the outset or did it occur at a certain point? Does anyone know when...

Hi all, I've been running a C250 CDi (auto) for a couple of weeks now. Bought it as an ex MB management car with 3k on the clock. When I picked it up I noted the trip computer showed fuel consumption of 29.1mpg for the 3000 miles on the clock. I was worried that the previous driver had...

Mercedes e220cdi fuel efficiency at 32mpg combined! Hi All I have recently purchased an e220cdi avantgarde on a 55 plate about a month ago thinking the efficiency on these were good. I have now filled up the tank to the brim about 4 times with everytime the average consumption ranging from...

I've just recently bought one of these and just wanted some feedback from others who may have the same car. 1. I was expecting alot better fuel consumption than i'm currently getting, round town driving i'm lucky if i get 23 mpg and thats with easy driving. 2. Have also noticed gear change...

Whilst reading the review of the new Seat Ibiza Cupra (petrol) I thought that the combined mpg of 44 was really impressive considering the 0-60 in 7s performance. So if this gives an efficiency/performance ration of 44/7 = 6.3 it made me think if there is anything better out there? I don't...