woter324
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Ok, My MB Stealer has now had my car over 5 weeks. The last time I heard anything from them, 3 weeks ago, the issue was with coil packs....
The car developed a miss fire and pluging in my OBD-II tool, it reported a miss fire on #2 and #4. When the MB mobile mechanic arrived his Xentry showed the same thing and after poking around in the engine bay for an hour, breaking off several plug clips, he determined it was the coil packs. Not that he had the new double type on board and even if he had, they need to be coded to the car in Germany.
The car was taken away on the Sunday. Roll to the following Tuesday when said Stealer calls to say they thought a software update would solve it. It hadn't so they had to order a special compression testing tool that would take 5 days...
Roll another 10 days, after I had called them, they spoke to my missus and the message I got was a faulty coil pack. Wasn't that diagnosed by the mobile mechanic! And why did it take so long to switch over some coil packs and clear the DTCs.
Anyway, it turns 6 weeks on Sunday. Clearly the Stealer hasn't got a clue and I'm beginning to wonder if Germany does either.
I wrote to Dr. Dieter Zetsche, CC'ing the Franchise CEO on Thursday. I know they have the letter, but as yet, not a word... It looks like MB are further up their own bottom than Audi and VW combined. That's a mighty long way.
Anyway, the point of this post is to put it out there to see if anyone else has experienced miss firing on the W205. Maybe I can pass on this info to MB so I can get my car back some time this year.
Franz Hinzbecker from AMG could have built me a new engine in this time!
Thanks W.
The car developed a miss fire and pluging in my OBD-II tool, it reported a miss fire on #2 and #4. When the MB mobile mechanic arrived his Xentry showed the same thing and after poking around in the engine bay for an hour, breaking off several plug clips, he determined it was the coil packs. Not that he had the new double type on board and even if he had, they need to be coded to the car in Germany.
The car was taken away on the Sunday. Roll to the following Tuesday when said Stealer calls to say they thought a software update would solve it. It hadn't so they had to order a special compression testing tool that would take 5 days...
Roll another 10 days, after I had called them, they spoke to my missus and the message I got was a faulty coil pack. Wasn't that diagnosed by the mobile mechanic! And why did it take so long to switch over some coil packs and clear the DTCs.
Anyway, it turns 6 weeks on Sunday. Clearly the Stealer hasn't got a clue and I'm beginning to wonder if Germany does either.
I wrote to Dr. Dieter Zetsche, CC'ing the Franchise CEO on Thursday. I know they have the letter, but as yet, not a word... It looks like MB are further up their own bottom than Audi and VW combined. That's a mighty long way.
Anyway, the point of this post is to put it out there to see if anyone else has experienced miss firing on the W205. Maybe I can pass on this info to MB so I can get my car back some time this year.
Franz Hinzbecker from AMG could have built me a new engine in this time!
Thanks W.