C350e owners club

[Flyingpig73]

You can get a charging point installed for £150.. Type 1 or 2...

I am an electrician by trade and installed my own external socket. I tried the brick plugged into the wall and it was intermittent.

Installed a new RCD fuseboard, with just one socket off it, with a 15 A breaker to an external socket. Since then been great. I do notice that on the higher amperage the plug does get warm, which worries me. The cable doesnt, so I am thinking the plug, cable and socket are all okay for the hihger amps, but not convinced on teh plug.

 

[Hicksy]

Not exactly but mine arrived back in March with the bottom radiator hose leaking. Was a slow leak so only showed up after a few days when the coolant was near empty. Local MB service centre looked at it, ran pressure tests and sent me away telling me nothing was wrong. After getting the coolant warning and topping up several times, I pressed the "I've broken down" phone button and got MB Central to arrange to collect my car from my home. The 3rd party engineer arrived 11pm and in the dark with just a torch found the leak in about 2 minutes. Well done main MB Service Centre! All fixed back in April, no recurrence.

Not sure that will help.

As an aside, moral of my story seems that, if you need something fixed, go through the "I've broken down" process and all the faff that involves of your car being collected on a truck and taken to your dealer and having a replacement hire car. That way I believe MB Central has to organise it all and so presumably pays for the work. If you try to be helpful and drive the car to the dealer for them to squeeze you into their schedule to save everyone time and money, you risk being seen as a nuisance and a cost and getting crap service. Go figure.

 

[imi123]

My 350e came in September great extras but I feel like getting like scam on pure electric getting only 11 to 15 on full battery charged and when driving only getting like 6 miles ,no temp showing ,command online no UK on select country so can't play I player need to go back to dealers, new car so many faults should have stuck with my diesels

 

[Dodgy]

My 350e came in September great extras but I feel like getting like scam on pure electric getting only 11 to 15 on full battery charged and when driving only getting like 6 miles ,no temp showing ,command online no UK on select country so can't play I player need to go back to dealers, new car so many faults should have stuck with my diesels

Sorry to hear it's been traumatic. The C350e definitely has had a snag list, although some things have been resolved.

I wasn't aware that the temperature display and COMAND issues could be C350e specific (or plug-in hybrid specific). I realise many of the screens on the multifunction display are about the hybrid features, but does it have completely different console software to other C class vehicles?

I'm grumpy about the electric performance as well, but good luck getting a diesel that will deliver the quoted fuel economy.

 

[JulesFB]

I'm grumpy about the electric performance as well, but good luck getting a diesel that will deliver the quoted fuel economy.

Good luck getting a C350e that will deliver the quoted fuel economy!

 

[Dodgy]

Good luck getting a C350e that will deliver the quoted fuel economy!

Quite! I've not heard anyone say they've done a 135mpg tank of fuel. My last one was my best at 88mpg, with very few long journeys.

Someone said a while back that PHEVs should have a quoted electric range then a fuel economy number based on minimum charge. Mercedes and others are designing cars to hit tax thresholds based on the New European Test Cycle. If your journeys are slightly different to the test, the economy results will be massively different. If you never do more than 10 miles between charges, you'll get hundreds of mpg. If you never charge, you could get as little as 30mpg.

More range would help but the batteries would weigh more and the 211hp engine under the bonnet would be less justifiable.

 

[Laurona12]

OK so I've now done around 20k in my 350e and started to get an annoying clicking sound !

After around 30 seconds after starting the vehicle I'm getting a clicking noise from behind the dash on the passengers side. It only lasts for around 20 seconds and then goes away. It is louder when cold and can also 'sometimes' be heard when I change the temperature. Has anyone else experienced this or have any ideas ? Thanks

 

[CaptainChaos]

Sounds like a flap in the heating system is sticking.
Either that or you've got a leaf (from a tree, not Nissan) stuck in there.

 

[TheCorm]

Good luck getting a C350e that will deliver the quoted fuel economy!

My best tank for me was about 110mpg...950 mile between fillup that onr and that required a lot of short journeys and charging! On cold days you do wish it had bigger batteries but be a shame for that ICE to go below 200bhp in exchange for that.

 

[dtj1987]

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[dtj1987]

^ my new black sport premium with night package... delivered this morning [emoji4]


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[CaptainChaos]

Can you find it in the dark?


Congrats. Enjoy it!

 

[Goldngin]

Interesting to see car was showing 17 miles electric range after charging at work this morning, that's as good as it's been even throughout the Summer. Then actually got 15 miles out of it on the way home before the ICE kicked in, but had to put it in emode to get as much juice out of the battery as possible. Journey consists of a mix of roads, town/rural and motorway, stayed in slow lane at at 50 - 60 mph on the Mway to help achieve it.

 

[Goldngin]

78.4 mpg over 33 miles, can't complain.

 

[derekthetree]

..... stayed in slow lane at at 50 - 60 mph on the Mway to help achieve it.��

In normal traffic with everything trying to go 70?

 

[Goldngin]

In normal traffic with everything trying to go 70?

Nah, Busy M25, just following other traffic.

 

[wivenhoe]

OK so I've now done around 20k in my 350e and started to get an annoying clicking sound !

After around 30 seconds after starting the vehicle I'm getting a clicking noise from behind the dash on the passengers side. It only lasts for around 20 seconds and then goes away. It is louder when cold and can also 'sometimes' be heard when I change the temperature. Has anyone else experienced this or have any ideas ? Thanks

Funny - I noticed the same thing for the first time yesterday. I've had the car 14 months. I'll check for leaves !

 

[Brookwood]

Do you have run flat tyres? We didn't get a tyre fix kit and I was told we therefore had run flats but the markings on the tyres don't bear this out. We have 18" wheels on an estate.

The tyres are Bridgestone and say tubeless radials MO not MOE as I was expecting. Does anybody else have similar tyres?

 

[salman002]

if the tyres are runflat they should have the some wordings on the tyres:

Bridgestone: RFT

Continental: SSR (SelfSupportingRunflat)

Dunlop: DSST or DSST CTT or DSST RunOnFlat

Firestone: RFT

Goodyear: EMT or RunOnFlat

Kumho: XRP

Michelin: ZP

Pirelli: RSC | RFT | the full word Run-flat | MOE

Yokohama: ZPS


Hope this helps!

 

[Dodgy]

if the tyres are runflat they should have the some wordings on the tyres:



Bridgestone: RFT



Continental: SSR (SelfSupportingRunflat)



Dunlop: DSST or DSST CTT or DSST RunOnFlat



Firestone: RFT



Goodyear: EMT or RunOnFlat



Kumho: XRP



Michelin: ZP



Pirelli: RSC | RFT | the full word Run-flat | MOE



Yokohama: ZPS





Hope this helps!

Anyone know about Hankooks? I wasn't expecting run-flats, but it would be a pleasant surprise...


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