What Have You Done To Your Merc Today?

[Frosty149]

Went to start it and battery flat
Looks like the battery has sucuumbed to old age.

Yep, I know that problem and it ain’t just cars

 

[Blobcat]

Didn't do anything but I couldn't get my E220 - W213 running last night, unlocked it as normal but when I opened the door the alarm went off. I locked and unlocked it again and when I pressed the started every warning light under the sun came on and it wouldn't start. It settled down to just SRS and Parking Warnings, I switched it off, plugged in my OBDII reader which couldn't find any errors so I called Mercedes. I couldn't even lock the car as it wouldn't respond to the key.
After talking to Mobilo for awhile I tried the car again, switched it off, locked it then opened it again and it then started. It had a warning displayed of a light bulb until I switched it off again, once I started it again later no warnings and nothing stored. Worked perfectly again this morning. Bit of a concern though as reliability is what I'm interested in.

 

[LostKiwi]

Yep, I know that problem and it ain’t just cars

Yep... and my CTEK is in France

 

[alexanderfoti]

Changed the oil on one, rain stopped play on the other one

 

[LostKiwi]

Drove the 230 to work to check for ABC leaks and thankfully it seems fine.
Put the 129 on charge to recover the battery....

 

[DREAMER NO2]

Started on replacing the steering damper . For other owners of ageing, cars this is a must .
I knew mine was original and 29 years old . Orderd one from enay. The make of it was BOGE .
Me being me , i wanted to do the job myself, just to have the satisfaction that the job was done right. You know how some of us are. Well i drove the car on to the ramps , and soon the undershield was off , and out of the way. Looked at the steering damper, and no way could i get the bolt to pull out of the one end, this was after i had removed the nut . The steering needed turned to move the link above it so i could pull out the bolt .And as i was on plastic ramps i was unable to turn the wheels .Then i had to jack the car up and remove the wheels on both sides Bolts out, and the new Boge steering damper in place .The old one was totaly shot and worked like a bike pump with no washer on .These are easy to check by just removing the bolt thats fixed on to the steering link and not the one on the chassis.If you steering wheel kicks when you hit a pothole , then check this part out first.

 

[ZZZZ]

Fixed this year's poppy to the radiator grille. Forgot to take a pic.

 

[John Laidlaw]

Nice graceful glide down the M53 with a 911 Carrera for company....what fun!

 

[daveenty]

Charged the battery on the E Class as it came up as partially charged through Mercedes ME.

I've only had the car two months but, due to damaging my shoulder and arm, have hardly driven it yet, mainly just doing little runs of less than 3 miles to get a newspaper in the mornings hence the flat battery. This seems such a waste but hopefully I'll be back to normal soon and be able to give it one or two decent runs which it obviously needs.

 

[EmilysDad]

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I've only had the car two months but, due to damaging my shoulder and arm, have hardly driven it yet, mainly just doing little runs of less than 3 miles to get a newspaper in the mornings hence the flat battery. This seems such a waste but hopefully I'll be back to normal .......

Sorry about your shoulder but don't forget that I'm only over the road ..... I could help your flat battery problems by using for work every day now & again

 

[John Laidlaw]

Charged the battery on the E Class as it came up as partially charged through Mercedes ME.

I've only had the car two months but, due to damaging my shoulder and arm, have hardly driven it yet, mainly just doing little runs of less than 3 miles to get a newspaper in the mornings hence the flat battery. This seems such a waste but hopefully I'll be back to normal soon and be able to give it one or two decent runs which it obviously needs.

Off up to Edinburgh tonight, back tomorrow...could always give it a run out for you

 

[EmilysDad]

Off up to Edinburgh tonight, back tomorrow...could always give it a run out for you

I've got 1st dibs ..... I'm closer than you

 

[John Laidlaw]

I've got 1st dibs ..... I'm closer than you

Darn it! Aw OK then

 

[daveenty]

Sorry guys, it's not going to happen as there are the odd occasions when it's needed. Like today when I had to visit my upholsterer with one of the door cards off the 190E.

These are notorious for coming apart at the top where damp gets to them and I've been lucky in that only one of mine (N/S/F) needed repairing, so I whipped it over to the main man and will pick it up early next week. I was drooling at a 500E which he had in at the time, he reckons the owner has a few of them., No wonder I couldn't find one when I was looking, this guy seems to have them all.

I may just give the E Class a run out this weekend, shoulder and weather dependant, probably down to MSL or somewhere equally salubrious.

 

[Blobcat]

Sorry guys, it's not going to happen as there are the odd occasions when it's needed. Like today when I had to visit my upholsterer with one of the door cards off the 190E.

These are notorious for coming apart at the top where damp gets to them and I've been lucky in that only one of mine (N/S/F) needed repairing, so I whipped it over to the main man and will pick it up early next week. I was drooling at a 500E which he had in at the time, he reckons the owner has a few of them., No wonder I couldn't find one when I was looking, this guy seems to have them all.

I may just give the E Class a run out this weekend, shoulder and weather dependant, probably down to MSL or somewhere equally salubrious.

I have a solar charger that plugs in the OBDII port on the Smart and it's made quite a difference. I had optimates on the others but the Smart isn't close to a socket.

 

[DREAMER NO2]

Thinking of one of those OBD port chargers .but i have no OBD port to plug in to.

 

[ZZZZ]

Thinking of one of those OBD port chargers .but i have no OBD port to plug in to.

You can turn a power socket into an always-on type quite easily (and revert to the standard ignition on later), so you can plug a solar charger into it: all you need is a fuse tap - I can email you a simple diagram.

 

[Taffy7hfa]

Der Panzerwagon passed its MOT today with flying colours and no advisory's, hooray !!

 

[LostKiwi]

Thinking of one of those OBD port chargers .but i have no OBD port to plug in to.

Add an obd2 to 38 pin converter cable and it should work.

 

[John Laidlaw]

Sorry guys, it's not going to happen as there are the odd occasions when it's needed. Like today when I had to visit my upholsterer with one of the door cards off the 190E.

These are notorious for coming apart at the top where damp gets to them and I've been lucky in that only one of mine (N/S/F) needed repairing, so I whipped it over to the main man and will pick it up early next week. I was drooling at a 500E which he had in at the time, he reckons the owner has a few of them., No wonder I couldn't find one when I was looking, this guy seems to have them all.

I may just give the E Class a run out this weekend, shoulder and weather dependant, probably down to MSL or somewhere equally salubrious.

Wouldn’t have done it much justice until I reached Lancaster anyway Dave....took me from the Wirral to there just under 3 hours!!
The remaining 190 miles took under under 2 mind