e350 cdi advice
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W1ghty
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Consider getting an MB specialist doing a pdi on the car ?
Problems could be oil cooler seals £1000
Turbo, swirl flap, inlet port motor issues as well .
Make sure the car had its gearbox oil and filter change at 40k miles as well
Any link to the car buddy ?
Problems could be oil cooler seals £1000
Turbo, swirl flap, inlet port motor issues as well .
Make sure the car had its gearbox oil and filter change at 40k miles as well
Any link to the car buddy ?
I bought a 2011 e350cdi (upgraded engine with 265bhp) in 2014. It had circa 35k on the clock.
Now it's about 108k. It's never let me down, I've followed the service schedule and nothing major has gone wrong. It's a brilliant car, comfortable, refined, smooth and quiet. Has sufficient poke too when you open the taps.
Now it's about 108k. It's never let me down, I've followed the service schedule and nothing major has gone wrong. It's a brilliant car, comfortable, refined, smooth and quiet. Has sufficient poke too when you open the taps.
W1ghty
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Does your city have any low emissions anti diesel zones coming up ?
Good point - I had a look and it's June 2023 for Glasgae.
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That’s a very good point
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Don’t remind me.
I have the same car (265) and apart from routine servicing, I’ve only had to fit a thermostat, new Bilstein shocks and had the rusty brake pipes replaced. It’s on 92k and has to be genuinely one of the best cars ever.
It's very expensive for a euro 5 car; there's going to be more and more forced sellers of these great cars over the next few years; it can only mean serious falls in value - whilst the more unreliable euro 6 models will presumably hold their value as more people are "forced" to buy them. I think I would either buy a £5k ish euro 5 or a more expensive euro 6 atm - spending £14k on a euro 5 seems a bit daft imho.
I was looking into getting a 265 and adding a Brabus box to it when I was planning on replacing my 211. That would take it up to 300-odd bhp which was pretty much the same as my outgoing E500.
Then someone warned me about the then-rumoured London ULEZ and that was that. I didn't fancy buying something in 2017 and then having to sell it in 2019 so switched back to looking for a large petrol.
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It’s a pita. I can still take it to the office which is on the edge of the city centre so won’t impact me that much. However it’s when you need to go into the centre that’s the issue.
I will replace it next year with a heavy heart.
It's hard. My problem is that 80% of my mileage is on motorways (when a diesel makes sense) but 80% of journeys are within London's ULEZ zone. Hence what might seem like the illogical choice of a 5.5 V8 petrol.
My neighbour's solution to a similar issue was to get a 400d when he moved his 211 5.5 on. It's Euro 6 and is quite quick for a diesel; plenty fast enough for a family bus.
But then I start thinking of failing pumps in AdBlue tanks (what a stupid bit of engineering) and also wonder about DPF's and EGRs in the long weeks when the car's not leaving the city.
So then I look at E43's (two turbos....hmmm...) and E53's (one turbo, one electric supercharger and a bit lump of electronic gubbins in the gearbox) and I get twitchy.
My wife and daughter are lobbying me to get a hybrid next and I just look at the cost and complexity when something goes wrong as the car nears 10 years old. I don't want to lay out any more than £25k and that gets me something 5 years old. How about an £8k bill for a battery five years down the line? Plus you get some form of underwhelming 4 pot and a load of extra weight to drag around. Hmmm...
At this point in my cogitating I reach the same conclusion; get the paint tidied up on the 212, stick some door speakers in and hang onto it for another year......
I feel lucky to have been able to enjoy four V8's in a row over the last 20 years and may just hang on a while longer.
I have a slightly newer, same mileage E350d
Check for brake pipe corrosion, not just where you can see it but down the near side under the plastic floor cover. The pipes to the rear brakes go down that side. Mine had a load of dirt wedged between the car and the pipe which rusted it through because they are steel - and which moron thought that was a good idea!!
Also, the pipe which goes from NSR to OSR is a bugger to replace, so check that too.
Other than that, just check all the electrical bits work, including ECO stop/start and the brake HOLD if it has them. If it has and they don't work it means a new battery which are getting expensive.
Check for brake pipe corrosion, not just where you can see it but down the near side under the plastic floor cover. The pipes to the rear brakes go down that side. Mine had a load of dirt wedged between the car and the pipe which rusted it through because they are steel - and which moron thought that was a good idea!!
Also, the pipe which goes from NSR to OSR is a bugger to replace, so check that too.
Other than that, just check all the electrical bits work, including ECO stop/start and the brake HOLD if it has them. If it has and they don't work it means a new battery which are getting expensive.
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Another one hit wonderThat's well, expensive! Don't think the OP's posted since his original post.
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It is the ones that join and ask an obvious question that the car handbook or Google could quickly answer and then do not return that are irritating.Another one hit wonder
One recently came here and admitted they could not bothered to read the manual!
There seem to be very few decent s211/212 for sale in any engine config - my guess is that lots of people are concluding the same as you - stick with their current car. The only ones forced to change are those living or driving into the new £9/12.50 per day charging zones.....that's a hell of an incentive to do something.
That happens all the time on FB; it is easier to pop a photo of a car display (eg simple TPMS warning) and ask the question online than it is to look in your own car manual. The question is usually answered within minutes - the person asking the question doesn't even need to get up; just sits there phone in hand waiting to be served up with the answer......
It's just a different approach; usually segmented by age
