stu
Active Member
One day last August my wife was driving locally and came to a halt in the traffic. Our car - a W205 C200 Petrol - stopped the engine as it should. Foot off the brake and onto the accelerator and ... nothing. Press the start button , same result. It was locked in park as well, Half an hour later Mercedes sent us an RAC man. After some fiddling he got it started, but confessed he was not sure how. He escorted her to the local independent. There it showed no faults, just one historical one which had no data available with it. Ran lots of checks and drove it round for a while where it behaved perfectly. He replaced the stop/start software which he said was out of date. Four months later we had the car serviced at a dealer who said it was all fine. Yesterday we drove it one mile, left it for an hour and a half and then set off back home. Coming to a junction the engine stopped as it should and then totally failed to restart. After some time and a lot of cross other motorists we got it started with ECO Stop/start disabled (not the first time we tried that)
My options appear to get all the batteries checked/replaced. The one in the key was 4 days old and no messages saying it was low. We have had this in the past so that does (or did) work.
We generally do a lot of short journeys in West London traffic but did 120 miles last Wednesday. Four years old, 27,000 miles.
Paying by the hour for more head scratching is not an option I want to pursue.
Anyone else had this problem?
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Stuart
My options appear to get all the batteries checked/replaced. The one in the key was 4 days old and no messages saying it was low. We have had this in the past so that does (or did) work.
We generally do a lot of short journeys in West London traffic but did 120 miles last Wednesday. Four years old, 27,000 miles.
Paying by the hour for more head scratching is not an option I want to pursue.
Anyone else had this problem?
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Stuart