Mallo
Senior Member
Hi there,
Long time lurker and reader. It's thanks to this forum that I got into MB ownership and I haven't regretted a minute of it. I've now had a E320CDI, CLS55 and I'm now on an S320CDI. I'm thinking of getting an S500 (back to petrol - yay) with the M278 engine. I can only afford high milers so I was wondering if there are any potential disasters looming with the engine? I know all about airmatic having replaced 3 struts and electrical gremlins (why doesn't my clock change now?) etc.
The ones I'm looking at are in the 70-100k range - I'm particularly worried about the turbos. I have read about fual injector failures and timing chain tensioners but those problems usually surface early on. My plan is to keep it for about 3 years and 20k miles.
As ever any advice welcome!
Long time lurker and reader. It's thanks to this forum that I got into MB ownership and I haven't regretted a minute of it. I've now had a E320CDI, CLS55 and I'm now on an S320CDI. I'm thinking of getting an S500 (back to petrol - yay) with the M278 engine. I can only afford high milers so I was wondering if there are any potential disasters looming with the engine? I know all about airmatic having replaced 3 struts and electrical gremlins (why doesn't my clock change now?) etc.
The ones I'm looking at are in the 70-100k range - I'm particularly worried about the turbos. I have read about fual injector failures and timing chain tensioners but those problems usually surface early on. My plan is to keep it for about 3 years and 20k miles.
As ever any advice welcome!