What Have You Done To Your Merc Today?

[RogerSausage]

I don't know what i was doing wrong when i used one of them on a W205 diesel, but it left 1.5Lt of oil in the engine i couldn't get out, i had to take plug out to get the rest out Has anyone else had that problem with that engine 2.2 ?

Did you get the oil hot first? I go for a good run first and get it up to temperature, then park with the nose down slightly towards the dipstick tube. The measurement scale is totally wrong though, my engine holds 7.4 litres according to the M-B spec, I always put 8.0 in though to get it right to the maximum. I pulled 9 out

 

[OneForTheRoad]

Did you get the oil hot first? I go for a good run first and get it up to temperature, then park with the nose down slightly towards the dipstick tube. The measurement scale is totally wrong though, my engine holds 7.4 litres according to the M-B spec, I always put 8.0 in though to get it right to the maximum. I pulled 9 out

Be careful overfilling , oil expands in volume when it's hot . If it states 7.4 pour in 7 . It doesn't need to be on the maximum, it can be from min to max ,on the dipstick. Which is probably only a difference of half a litre anyways. Then some say measure the oil hot ?? I've always measured it cold , but hot will be more accurate for Upto running temperatures. If your pulling out 9 then you need to at least think .

 

[Gazwould]

I don't know what i was doing wrong when i used one of them on a W205 diesel, but it left 1.5Lt of oil in the engine i couldn't get out, i had to take plug out to get the rest out Has anyone else had that problem with that engine 2.2 ?

2143cc OM651 ?

 

[merc estate]

Yea thats the engine Yea i did read that before, but seeing that i thought i may try again, but then again i will be kicking myself if it dosen't work out again. I May pay the specialist.

 

[Gazwould]

Had a Sealey 6.5 L extractor for years , was filling right up to capacity of the OM651 which is 6.5L poured out a bit and tried again only to find it was on point .

It was doing blow jobs on 3 cars sometimes twice a year , the bottom seal has gone now but I've got my £ out of it .

Will invest in an ebay 9L soon .

 

[ToeKnee]

Had a Sealey 6.5 L extractor for years , was filling right up to capacity of the OM651 which is 6.5L poured out a bit and tried again only to find it was on point .

It was doing blow jobs on 3 cars sometimes twice a year , the bottom seal has gone now but I've got my £ out of it .

Will invest in an ebay 9L soon .

Suck jobs surely??

 

[RogerSausage]

Be careful overfilling , oil expands in volume when it's hot . If it states 7.4 pour in 7 . It doesn't need to be on the maximum, it can be from min to max ,on the dipstick. Which is probably only a difference of half a litre anyways. Then some say measure the oil hot ?? I've always measured it cold , but hot will be more accurate for Upto running temperatures. If your pulling out 9 then you need to at least think .

I'm more inclined to believe the measurement scale on the extractor is wrong! 9 litres of oil would be a couple of inches or so above the dipstick max mark.

I've been a Mercedes-Benz tech for 25 years, and always put 8.0 litres in an M113 engine. It's fine

 

[W1ghty]

I had picked up some Bosch gp’s a while ago in a super duper sale . So sunny day thought I would change the 4 year old ones .
As per @Jobsworth tip I got the engine really hot first and they all came out really easily .
A bit of ceramic paste on the threads and 8nm .
Finished off with new air filters and a new orange turbo seal .

 

[Jobsworth]

Nice one!

 

[ToeKnee]

160 mile round trip to Malvern show ground for a car show. Walk in the sun, see some old friends and catch a tan. Sit in the club AGM and get voted back into the committee and then a pleasant drive home again.

 

[JHS]

Sold it.

 

[pioneercollector]

Two new batteries and some windscreen wipers ..... and a run out to a local car meet, then back home ...... Lovely

 

[BTB 500]

New propshaft on the Vito (this is a very common failure item).

We could play "guess the price from MB" but I'll tell you ... £2,460 plus VAT = £2,952 (plus labour of course) Or a reconditioned one instead for £1,400 plus VAT.

I went with a GSF one for £730 all-in (fitted, including VAT). Have done 300 miles on it in the last 24 hrs (nearly all motorway) and it seems absolutely fine. May not last the 164k miles the original did but it'll hopefully do for the remainder of the time we have the van.

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

New propshaft on the Vito (this is a very common failure item).

We could play "guess the price from MB" but I'll tell you ... £2,460 plus VAT = £2,952 (plus labour of course) Or a reconditioned one instead for £1,400 plus VAT.

I went with a GSF one for £730 all-in (fitted, including VAT). Have done 300 miles on it in the last 24 hrs (nearly all motorway) and it seems absolutely fine. May not last the 164k miles the original did but it'll hopefully do for the remainder of the time we have the van.

Blimey, quite a difference in cost!

 

[alzieboy]

Spent the morning getting the old wheel weight adhesive pads of the wheels, after having four new tyres fitted.
Why couldn’t the tyre fitter have removed them ?

 

[Trickythemerc]

Because he is a tyre fitter and not a valeter.

 

[KillerHERTZ]

Spent the morning getting the old wheel weight adhesive pads of the wheels, after having four new tyres fitted.
Why couldn’t the tyre fitter have removed them ?

You spent the morning doing 4 wheels, that guy possibly changes upto 50 (Sets) of wheels a day, how would he ever get any wheels changed if he was spending his time cleaning the first set of wheels every morning.

 

[BTB 500]

I put 340 miles on the C300 yesterday. Before I left it had done 120 miles since last filling it up, and it was showing 147 miles of range left when I got home Got 46 mpg on the outward leg and 42 mpg on the way back (full of furniture) - pretty happy with that from a decent-sized petrol estate car.

 

[OldskoolRS]

More of a 'what have you done to your Merc over the past few weeks?' but I finished with topping up the oil and screenwash after a good wash and polish today.

Previous weeks; replaced two sensors chasing an EML error. Did an oil/filter and spark plug change. Got it through the MOT (EML light stayed off thankfully) just an advisory on the lower/rear suspension arm for play, which I'll do this summer. Still need to get to the bottom of the EML error too (low voltage on o2 sensor (post cat).

 

[alzieboy]

You spent the morning doing 4 wheels, that guy possibly changes upto 50 (Sets) of wheels a day, how would he ever get any wheels changed if he was spending his time cleaning the first set of wheels every morning.

But he had the wheels off the Car I did not ,
There’s always one , no correction two