shadowandspace
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I have a lovely 2002 W210 E320T Elegance that I have just purchased. It is a single owner car that has only done 39k miles but sat around for the later stages of the previous careful ownership being turned over doing a few hundred miles per year. It was fully and regularly serviced and very well looked after.
But I have a problem with the brake pedal sticking intermittently since I purchased the car 5 weeks ago. For example I drove the car yesterday morning for 30 minutes with no issues. However after the car sat parked for 2 hours the brake pedal was sticking almost always during my return journey, needing me to gently flick it back up from underneath to release the pedal and the brakes. It doesn't seem to happen when the pedal is fully depressed and sometimes doing this releases the pedal after it sticks.
I have had the car into the garage to check the brakes with wheels off which were fine, and to a second garage to have the pedal itself disassembled and fully lubricated. Both have not solved the issue.
A third garage I have now spoken to test drove the car and the pedal sticking didn't happen during this. Their advice is to change the master and servo which is an expensive outlay and best done together to save on labour as the servo has to come out to get to the master.
My question to the forum is are there any other things to try and would anyone be able to advise on using second hard parts, which could bring the outlay down dramatically (the MB parts are around £850 for both items). Any advice on sourcing good quality parts would be really appreciated.
But I have a problem with the brake pedal sticking intermittently since I purchased the car 5 weeks ago. For example I drove the car yesterday morning for 30 minutes with no issues. However after the car sat parked for 2 hours the brake pedal was sticking almost always during my return journey, needing me to gently flick it back up from underneath to release the pedal and the brakes. It doesn't seem to happen when the pedal is fully depressed and sometimes doing this releases the pedal after it sticks.
I have had the car into the garage to check the brakes with wheels off which were fine, and to a second garage to have the pedal itself disassembled and fully lubricated. Both have not solved the issue.
A third garage I have now spoken to test drove the car and the pedal sticking didn't happen during this. Their advice is to change the master and servo which is an expensive outlay and best done together to save on labour as the servo has to come out to get to the master.
My question to the forum is are there any other things to try and would anyone be able to advise on using second hard parts, which could bring the outlay down dramatically (the MB parts are around £850 for both items). Any advice on sourcing good quality parts would be really appreciated.
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