CLK200K engine official power increase

[grober]

Can anyone give me the date that the CLK200 Kompressor engine power was uprated by Mercedes from 163bhp to 184bhp? No doubt its been discussed before on the forum but would like a quick answer please.

 

[markjay]

I think that happened when they changed the C-Class from W203 to W204, i.e. mid-2007... my owners manual (W203 2006) shows 163bhp, but the W204 C-Class brochure that I picked-up at the dealership says 184bhp.

 

[grober]

I think that happened when they changed the C-Class from W203 to W204, i.e. mid-2007... my owners manual (W203 2006) shows 163bhp, but the W204 C-Class brochure that I picked-up at the dealership says 184bhp.

Thanks for that info, although I suspect the power upgrade may have happened in the CLK before that??

 

[markjay]

Thanks for that info, although I suspect the power upgrade may have happened in the CLK before that??

Donnow... the C-Class and CLK may have similar under-pinnings, but they have separate owners manuals and sales brochures - and I only have the C-Class ones...

 

[sweeney]

Parkers model guides that are online show the years and the bhp's

 

[grober]

Parkers model guides that are online show the years and the bhp's

Thanks. :bannana: I did look at PARKERS but didn't notice the lower power models listed further down the page. From that it would appear the 163bhp model ran from1 Oct 2002 to 31 May 2005 and the 184bhp onwards from then. No doubt there will be "slippage" related to when they started to come off the production line as opposed to when they hit the showrooms .As far as the C class saloon is concerned it would appear a higher powered 4 cylinder engine was taken care of by the introduction of the 192bhp 230 Kompressor engine which replaced the 170bhp 2.6 litre V6 engine. The 184bhp version did not appear in the C class till the the w204 series as has been said already. This business of designating engines with "theoretical" capacity when they are all based on the same 1.8 supercharged engine is most confusing. I must say.

 

[markjay]

Thanks. :bannana: I did look at PARKERS but didn't notice the lower power models listed further down the page. From that it would appear the 163bhp model ran from1 Oct 2002 to 31 May 2005 and the 184bhp onwards from then. No doubt there will be "slippage" related to when they started to come off the production line as opposed to when they hit the showrooms .As far as the C class saloon is concerned it would appear a higher powered 4 cylinder engine was taken care of by the introduction of the 192bhp 230 Kompressor engine which replaced the 170bhp 2.6 litre V6 engine. The 184bhp version did not appear in the C class till the the w204 series as has been said already. This business of designating engines with "theoretical" capacity when they are all based on the same 1.8 supercharged engine is most confusing. I must say.

..a bit like AMD naming their processors according to their 'theoretical' speed as opposed to their actual MHz, which make them sound as if they faster than Intel's...

But to be fair, BMW also have strange model numbering conventions that misleadingly do not always correspond to the actual engine capacity....

 

[Dieselman]

..a bit like AMD naming their processors according to their 'theoretical' speed as opposed to their actual MHz, which make them sound as if they faster than Intel's...

But on thest they can sometimes beat faster Intels, so who's in error.?

 

[markjay]

But on thest they can sometimes beat faster Intels, so who's in error.?

It's not about which processor is actually faster.... If Intel has a processor range named by its rated MHz clock speed, then AMD releasing a series of processors similarly named but where the numbering deliberately exceeds the MHz rating, is misleading.... in the same way as most laymen seeing a C200 will assume that it is a 2.0L car, even though it might be 2.0 and it might be 1.8.... I have no issue with the higher output of the MB C200 engine, or with the faster AMD processors, all I am saying is that facts and figures should be just that.... rant end

 

[markjay]

And as for BMW model naming... well I lost the plot many years ago.