Mercedes S320 CDI - Service D overdue message

[JOHN COPE]

Good Afternoon,
Can anyone tell me what a Service C is please and what does it entail. I have a 2008 S320 CDI

 

[JBell]

Sounds like the big one:

Oil and Filter
Pollen Filter
Fuel Filter
Brake Fluid

Poss Gearbox service as well

 

[Larkone]

https://www.mbwhiteplains.com/service/service-and-parts-tips/mercedes-benz-service-c/

Should be in the manual as well

 

[Malcolm Johnson]

Honestly i never gave the service much notice both W220 were motorway tools, which had oil and filter changes when the car told me. W221 started as a motorway tool but stopped work 5 years ago so W221 is a drive paper weight now. If you never intend to sell, the onus is on you to maintain correctly.
Both my cars each have a book detailing all expenditure, maintenance and items bought(history). Your intentions for the car will dictate your actions

 

[DSK]

Please avoid avoid all this cobblers about A, B, C etc. it’s all marketing bollox to portray cheaper service costs to the dimwits who buy stuff on tick. I’m stunned to even read what that entails and why I call modern cars with modern service intervals shag knackers.

Those items are shocking! Every service should at the very least be the following, no more than every 10k, ideally 5k.

Oil
Oil filter
Air filter(s)
Fuel filter
Plugs (on petrol)

Just get Mann filters from EuroCarParts and either DIY or get it into your Indy and enjoy the car.

Then obviously stuff like washer fluid, brake fluid check, diagnostics etc is just things you would do anyway.


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[Chrishazle]

MB sneakily changed the Assyst service intervals around 2007 when the W204 replaced the 203 - I had a 203, Assyst interval was 15.5k miles or 2 years, whichever came first, on the 204 it became 15.5k miles or 1 year, whichever came first. With synthetic oil and our low mileage (15.5k miles is 2 years on the main car, 4 on the toy) I ignore Assyst and have them serviced at roughly 2 year intervals. Fuel and air/pollen filters are every 4 years, plugs on the SLK were done 3 1/2 years ago, will have them checked next service and change only if required, brake fluid MB say 2 years but again I have the fluid checked and change if necessary.

 

[harrye500]

I do the 207 (toy car summer use only) every year despite low mileage. I think older oil can become acidic if not changed for some time though I'm deffo no oil expert, but I'd be getting sleepless nights if every 4 years, but that's just my thought on it

 

[harrye500]

MB do the 213 on the service plan.

 

[S500 Pete]

Please avoid avoid all this cobblers about A, B, C etc. it’s all marketing bollox to portray cheaper service costs to the dimwits who buy stuff on tick. I’m stunned to even read what that entails and why I call modern cars with modern service intervals shag knackers.

Those items are shocking! Every service should at the very least be the following, no more than every 10k, ideally 5k.

Oil
Oil filter
Air filter(s)
Fuel filter
Plugs (on petrol)

Just get Mann filters from EuroCarParts and either DIY or get it into your Indy and enjoy the car.

Then obviously stuff like washer fluid, brake fluid check, diagnostics etc is just things you would do anyway.


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Surely not plugs every 5,000!!

 

[grayb]

Surely not plugs every 5,000!!

But we are 'dimwits' if we don't, apparently...

 

[Botus]

Please avoid avoid all this cobblers about A, B, C etc. it’s all marketing bollox to portray cheaper service costs to the dimwits who buy stuff on tick. I’m stunned to even read what that entails and why I call modern cars with modern service intervals shag knackers.

Those items are shocking! Every service should at the very least be the following, no more than every 10k, ideally 5k.

Oil
Oil filter
Air filter(s)
Fuel filter
Plugs (on petrol)

not quite

spark plugs of decent quality these days are 60 or 100k miles - the muppets that throw 20 quid iridium 100k mile plugs designed to give the correct spark and fit some budget bosch 3 quid ones that almost don't have a spark are plain wrong

 

[Malcolm Johnson]

Common sense really needs to prevail on service / maintenance S gone from 22 k yearly to 4 k a year five years ago (drive paper Weight )
So just oil changed this year with 7945 completed since change 24 months previously.
SL500 (toy) oil changed this year with 4098 completed since change 24 months previously.
Brake fluid, air filter, transmission fluid, hydraulics, plugs, bearings, suspension tend to lean earlier rather than later but not insanely.

 

[malcolm E53 AMG]

not quite

spark plugs of decent quality these days are 60 or 100k miles - the muppets that throw 20 quid iridium 100k mile plugs designed to give the correct spark and fit some budget bosch 3 quid ones that almost don't have a spark are plain wrong

Yep, such a waste, my BMW spark plug interval is 60k miles or 4 yearly and I only do 15k over that period so they will get changed 8 yearly they are high quality expensive items not like the spark plugs of yesteryear

 

[DSK]

Surely not plugs every 5,000!!

I do! It’s OTT as the engines are healthy etc but it’s the way I have always done it and will always do it.

50 k etc. is absurd. Modern engines push them hard And extended intervals simply means niggly issues such S inefficiency and misfires. Just look at how many examples of this there are in the mean age which, is cured by a new set of plugs.


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[mioba]

each to thier own @DSK, but every 5k for plugs. I am OTT but thats wayyyyyy OTT.

 

[DSK]

It’s only another £70 for a set of plugs on each Volvo so no big deal and nice to know everything is fresh and at its best and never suffering running issues due to such components not being changed often enough.

Even the motorbike which I don’t get a chance to ride over recent years gets the usual MOT and a proper DSK style service annually which leaves the folks who look after it stunned but always begging to buy it. None of this extended interval bullsh!t for me thank you as anything less is not a ‘service’.