Dave Jones
Member
- Joined
- Jan 14, 2011
- Messages
- 37
- Location
- Colchester, Essex
- Car
- '07 W211 E280 CDI Sport & '99 W208 CLK320 Elegance
Wayhey! I was right, the inlet port shut off motor was the cause of all the problems!
I got the parts from Merc on Tuesday but could not get a garage to fit it till next week. So I swallowed a brave pill and cracked out the spanners! I was hoping to get the motor out without having to remove too much but after an hour of fiddling on Tuesday afternoon it became obvious that the turbo was going to have to be removed (again!) to change the motor over. Yesterday morning taking a big breath (and several more brave pills!) I set about removing the turbo and several swearing sessions later the turbo was off. Got access to the motor but the clips that hold it the the arms that go to the inlet ports were so brittle they snapped when I removed them from the old one.
As sods law would have it although the replacement clips were only £3.48 the stealers in Colchester didn't have any so after a 40 mile round trip to the stealers in Ipswich I set about refitting everything (refitting the clips was a mare and several more swearing sessions and a kicking the wall session took place!) but eventually at 7pm last night the car was back in one piece.
Fingers crossed I turned the key and all was well in the world of my E. Cancelled the engine management light (which hasn't returned since) and went for a test drive. My god, my car must have been sick the whole time I have owned it (4 and a bit months) it's never been this fast and it's soooooo smooth, even the gear changes are smoother!
Sorry for the essay but I am one happy camper.
One thing I would say is if you own a car with the same engine as mine it would be very worth your while pulling the inlet pipe for the turbo off (it's only 3 jubilee clips, 2 plugs and pulling out a breather pipe to get it off) and check for oil seeping out on to the wires and the plastic box under the wires. If your is wet I would recommend you clean up what you can get to and change the big orange rubber seal in the inlet pipe (it just pulls out and the new one pushes in) and the end of the breather pipe which you pulled out (you just take the plug off and pull it out of the black pipe and push the new one in). Reassemble and you will probably find like I did that where the orange seals push in and over they are a lot tighter. This will stop any oil leak and hopefully save you from having the same problem as me. It's a simple job to do, the tools required are.......a flat head screwdriver....... that's it! The new parts from the stealers are just over £30.
Any one who is local and no good with spanners, if you'd like me to check yours for you I would be happy to do it (I'm not a mechanic but as you can probably see I do know a bit). This is a common problem and I'm damned if I'm gonna let Merc screw anyone else over.
Dave
I got the parts from Merc on Tuesday but could not get a garage to fit it till next week. So I swallowed a brave pill and cracked out the spanners! I was hoping to get the motor out without having to remove too much but after an hour of fiddling on Tuesday afternoon it became obvious that the turbo was going to have to be removed (again!) to change the motor over. Yesterday morning taking a big breath (and several more brave pills!) I set about removing the turbo and several swearing sessions later the turbo was off. Got access to the motor but the clips that hold it the the arms that go to the inlet ports were so brittle they snapped when I removed them from the old one.
As sods law would have it although the replacement clips were only £3.48 the stealers in Colchester didn't have any so after a 40 mile round trip to the stealers in Ipswich I set about refitting everything (refitting the clips was a mare and several more swearing sessions and a kicking the wall session took place!) but eventually at 7pm last night the car was back in one piece.
Fingers crossed I turned the key and all was well in the world of my E. Cancelled the engine management light (which hasn't returned since) and went for a test drive. My god, my car must have been sick the whole time I have owned it (4 and a bit months) it's never been this fast and it's soooooo smooth, even the gear changes are smoother!
Sorry for the essay but I am one happy camper.
One thing I would say is if you own a car with the same engine as mine it would be very worth your while pulling the inlet pipe for the turbo off (it's only 3 jubilee clips, 2 plugs and pulling out a breather pipe to get it off) and check for oil seeping out on to the wires and the plastic box under the wires. If your is wet I would recommend you clean up what you can get to and change the big orange rubber seal in the inlet pipe (it just pulls out and the new one pushes in) and the end of the breather pipe which you pulled out (you just take the plug off and pull it out of the black pipe and push the new one in). Reassemble and you will probably find like I did that where the orange seals push in and over they are a lot tighter. This will stop any oil leak and hopefully save you from having the same problem as me. It's a simple job to do, the tools required are.......a flat head screwdriver....... that's it! The new parts from the stealers are just over £30.
Any one who is local and no good with spanners, if you'd like me to check yours for you I would be happy to do it (I'm not a mechanic but as you can probably see I do know a bit). This is a common problem and I'm damned if I'm gonna let Merc screw anyone else over.
Dave