Hi everyone,
I have taken ownership of a 2010 CLC 220 CDi. It has 70k on the clock. Previous owner was my mother in law who has had it since 2013 and she has had it serviced yearly by Mercedes.
With that out of the way, I have a couple of questions to start with. For what it's worth, there are no engine lights or errors showing. I have not had it connected up to have any fault codes read that may not be showing.
1. The first is that on occasion, you can be driving along and suddenly all power goes, engine cuts. It can be short enough that the engine doesn't cut and the car picks up again and away you go. Once so far, it has cut out and I had to do a drop to park, turn off the ignition, and restart, which wasn't easy as I was in a traffic light queue with the lights just going to green so I had about 5 seconds. Any thoughts?
2. This maybe related, but when you turn the ignition just prior to firing up, the glowplug light comes on, and after a few seconds goes off, and then you start normally as you'd expect. On occasion, the glowplug lights come back on, but go off again after about 30 seconds. Any thoughts?
3. The boot lid I think needs new gas boot struts as they can't lift the tail lid up without help. Would that be right? I can do that myself quite easily.
4. When it has been raining and you lift the boot up, water drips down from the lip into the boot area so it can get damp. If looks to me as if there is something like a rubber gasket missing and some rubber grommets missing from the inner boot lid but without a reference car, I don't know. If I take a picture of the inner boot lid, could someone compare it with theirs and let me know?
5. This last one might just be my inexperience with Mercedes, but the power steering seems quite heavy. Quite similar to the heaviness of my old PT Cruiser I had a few years ago. It is notably heavier than my VW T-Roc and my old KIA Niro. Is the steering heavy on these cars?
6. Finally, the headlights. The stock ones are pretty crap. Very dull and yellow compared to modern cars. Any suggestions on suitable replacement ones withouth replacing the entire headlight assembly?
Many thanks,
V
I have taken ownership of a 2010 CLC 220 CDi. It has 70k on the clock. Previous owner was my mother in law who has had it since 2013 and she has had it serviced yearly by Mercedes.
With that out of the way, I have a couple of questions to start with. For what it's worth, there are no engine lights or errors showing. I have not had it connected up to have any fault codes read that may not be showing.
1. The first is that on occasion, you can be driving along and suddenly all power goes, engine cuts. It can be short enough that the engine doesn't cut and the car picks up again and away you go. Once so far, it has cut out and I had to do a drop to park, turn off the ignition, and restart, which wasn't easy as I was in a traffic light queue with the lights just going to green so I had about 5 seconds. Any thoughts?
2. This maybe related, but when you turn the ignition just prior to firing up, the glowplug light comes on, and after a few seconds goes off, and then you start normally as you'd expect. On occasion, the glowplug lights come back on, but go off again after about 30 seconds. Any thoughts?
3. The boot lid I think needs new gas boot struts as they can't lift the tail lid up without help. Would that be right? I can do that myself quite easily.
4. When it has been raining and you lift the boot up, water drips down from the lip into the boot area so it can get damp. If looks to me as if there is something like a rubber gasket missing and some rubber grommets missing from the inner boot lid but without a reference car, I don't know. If I take a picture of the inner boot lid, could someone compare it with theirs and let me know?
5. This last one might just be my inexperience with Mercedes, but the power steering seems quite heavy. Quite similar to the heaviness of my old PT Cruiser I had a few years ago. It is notably heavier than my VW T-Roc and my old KIA Niro. Is the steering heavy on these cars?
6. Finally, the headlights. The stock ones are pretty crap. Very dull and yellow compared to modern cars. Any suggestions on suitable replacement ones withouth replacing the entire headlight assembly?
Many thanks,
V