JuJigsaw
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- Sep 11, 2012
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- E-Class 250 CDi Sport Estate Tip
My 2017 E-220 currently has a non-AdBlue related issue which is covered under the extended warranty I took out with the lease company. However, the car has to go in to be fixed, but last year I had a separate AdBlue sensor failed issue, wouldn’t recognise any level change when topped up, giving the dreaded countdown.
This would have been fine had it not happened two days before our annual family holiday abroad in that car, and our only car at the time. I looked into it and saw it was time consuming to fix conventionally (possibly weeks), so temporarily ruled this solution out. But to avoid a potential holiday cancellation (and guaranteed domestic nuclear meltdown), I searched for a solution and found a guy who could "deactivate the sensor", allowing the car to run as normal for the holiday, and "which could be reactivated" when I got back, and then I'd get it fixed under warranty. The car ran fine, exactly as said, so I called him when we returned but the number was deactivated (go figure). I intended to then find someone else to sort this, but life went on and as the car ran fine, and work was chaotic, I forgot about the issue and it got put on the back burner. Yep, my bad.
As the car now needs to go in for other warranty work, I'd like to get the AdBlue sensor issue sorted at the same time also under warranty. But as the dash states "Cannot measure fluid level" I'm assuming this is a red-flag that the garage will check/spot? Or is there another standard Merc fault which also flags-up this same dash warning? i.e. this warning doesn't solely show up when the AdBlue software has been deleted.
If there isn't another standard fault which generates this message, I guess my only alternative is to find someone who can undelete, or possibly reinstall the OE AdBlue software, if this is even possible?
I'd simply like the car to go in with 'normal' looking faults and there not be any red flags, and the issues be fixed under warranty.
Any help or experience on this would be much appreciated.
This would have been fine had it not happened two days before our annual family holiday abroad in that car, and our only car at the time. I looked into it and saw it was time consuming to fix conventionally (possibly weeks), so temporarily ruled this solution out. But to avoid a potential holiday cancellation (and guaranteed domestic nuclear meltdown), I searched for a solution and found a guy who could "deactivate the sensor", allowing the car to run as normal for the holiday, and "which could be reactivated" when I got back, and then I'd get it fixed under warranty. The car ran fine, exactly as said, so I called him when we returned but the number was deactivated (go figure). I intended to then find someone else to sort this, but life went on and as the car ran fine, and work was chaotic, I forgot about the issue and it got put on the back burner. Yep, my bad.
As the car now needs to go in for other warranty work, I'd like to get the AdBlue sensor issue sorted at the same time also under warranty. But as the dash states "Cannot measure fluid level" I'm assuming this is a red-flag that the garage will check/spot? Or is there another standard Merc fault which also flags-up this same dash warning? i.e. this warning doesn't solely show up when the AdBlue software has been deleted.
If there isn't another standard fault which generates this message, I guess my only alternative is to find someone who can undelete, or possibly reinstall the OE AdBlue software, if this is even possible?
I'd simply like the car to go in with 'normal' looking faults and there not be any red flags, and the issues be fixed under warranty.
Any help or experience on this would be much appreciated.
