amosuro
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Hi everyone,
I have an issue with my C180 Kompressor (2003) Automatic 1.8.
Sometime last week, when I was approaching a slip road on the motorway, as soon as I started giving it some gas, it seemed to just loose power and almost go into a neutral state for a few seconds.
Once this happened, I can literally put my foot all the way down on the pedal and there's no power, the car just starts to slow down to about 40MPH...obviously you can imagine this is quite dangerous on a motorway.
But what is strange, is when I gradually put my foot on the accelerator it's absolutely fine, it only seems to be when I give it quite a bit of gas. I'm able to drive the car still, I just have to spend about a minute gradually increasing the speed to about 60MPH...which is an absolute pain!
I've had a mechanic drive it around, and he thinks it's something to do with the intercooler rad, saying that it might be blocked and that I should replace it. Intercooler rads are not cheap, and I'm hesistant to go out and pay that sort of money on a hunch.
I found this thread, and the guy seems to have exactly the same problem!
http://forums.mercedesclub.org.uk/showthread.php?t=89648
Unfortunately he didn't come back to say whether it was the hose or not.
Has anybody else experienced this problem? I'm thinking about trying the hose first, as it seems like the cheaper option, but I wonder if anybody has a diagram so that I can locate exactly which hose it is I'm looking for.
Thanks guys!
I have an issue with my C180 Kompressor (2003) Automatic 1.8.
Sometime last week, when I was approaching a slip road on the motorway, as soon as I started giving it some gas, it seemed to just loose power and almost go into a neutral state for a few seconds.
Once this happened, I can literally put my foot all the way down on the pedal and there's no power, the car just starts to slow down to about 40MPH...obviously you can imagine this is quite dangerous on a motorway.
But what is strange, is when I gradually put my foot on the accelerator it's absolutely fine, it only seems to be when I give it quite a bit of gas. I'm able to drive the car still, I just have to spend about a minute gradually increasing the speed to about 60MPH...which is an absolute pain!
I've had a mechanic drive it around, and he thinks it's something to do with the intercooler rad, saying that it might be blocked and that I should replace it. Intercooler rads are not cheap, and I'm hesistant to go out and pay that sort of money on a hunch.
I found this thread, and the guy seems to have exactly the same problem!
http://forums.mercedesclub.org.uk/showthread.php?t=89648
Unfortunately he didn't come back to say whether it was the hose or not.
Has anybody else experienced this problem? I'm thinking about trying the hose first, as it seems like the cheaper option, but I wonder if anybody has a diagram so that I can locate exactly which hose it is I'm looking for.
Thanks guys!