Hello Everyone,
I'm new to this forum. I'm in Essex in the UK and on a whim have bought my neighbours old CLK Convertible to enjoy in the finer weather. I also have a C250 Estate AMG Sport on a 2010 MY.
The CLK (2001 X) has just been run in at 100k and is getting about 33MPG on mid runs, pretty good.
My brother owns a garage and does a lot of work on Merc's and other high end German stuff.
Roof is OK but fails to work all the time, hydraulic fluid is at the correct level but despite replacing the brake switch (behind brake pedal) to clear the ABS/BAS issue it's still coming on - so with some fiddling and turning the car on and off the roof does reset.
Question 1 - what else should be check to ensure the roof will be reliable or are the simply problematic?
Question 2 - Does the ABS/BAS issue stop the roof working? And is it unusual for it to still be showing after replacing the brake switch?
Question 3 - the car will only indicate right, all functions on the stalk work, hazards work, wipers, washers and high beam but it will not indicate left (most of the time) fuses in front SAM are OK -what else should be looked at?
I'm sure these are common issues that have been covered before, I don't have 100's to waste on this fun toy, but clearly it has to be sage (turn signals) and the roof should be more reliable than it currently is...any help to point me around this forum would be great.
Thank you all!
Simon
I'm new to this forum. I'm in Essex in the UK and on a whim have bought my neighbours old CLK Convertible to enjoy in the finer weather. I also have a C250 Estate AMG Sport on a 2010 MY.
The CLK (2001 X) has just been run in at 100k and is getting about 33MPG on mid runs, pretty good.
My brother owns a garage and does a lot of work on Merc's and other high end German stuff.
Roof is OK but fails to work all the time, hydraulic fluid is at the correct level but despite replacing the brake switch (behind brake pedal) to clear the ABS/BAS issue it's still coming on - so with some fiddling and turning the car on and off the roof does reset.
Question 1 - what else should be check to ensure the roof will be reliable or are the simply problematic?
Question 2 - Does the ABS/BAS issue stop the roof working? And is it unusual for it to still be showing after replacing the brake switch?
Question 3 - the car will only indicate right, all functions on the stalk work, hazards work, wipers, washers and high beam but it will not indicate left (most of the time) fuses in front SAM are OK -what else should be looked at?
I'm sure these are common issues that have been covered before, I don't have 100's to waste on this fun toy, but clearly it has to be sage (turn signals) and the roof should be more reliable than it currently is...any help to point me around this forum would be great.
Thank you all!
Simon