Mercedes E320 Diesels

[SiC]

Down at the local pull-your-own part scrapyard yesterday, another E320 had met its fate...

 

Had more holes in the body panels than a colander. Interestingly the MOT hasn't expired.

[Bren]

I'm surprised these did'nt do for MB what the beta did for lancia.

[twosmoke300]

Wish they had !

[Bear]

They did, in some ways. Just look at how bad MB residuals are now compared to the '90s

 

I saw an SLK - with MOT - advertised for £350. Allegedly working. I was sorely tempted to grab it just as a beater.

[Station]

Tonight I felt a judder through the pedal at about 5 mph - then all the lights came on. I'm guessing this is a sensor or a reluctor ring problem?
I'll fix the dodgy dash LCD displays tomorrow (allegedly an easy fix), and attempt to cure the dripping from the sump (possibly a crack or something).
If car manufacturers learnt by their mistakes by now, we'd be driving round in perfect 100% reliable cars. There's a definite list of problems with the W210 that are guaranteed to occur eventually!

SiC ask about those mirrors, mine have been customised with woodscrews and too many collisions with stationary objects and one has a Metro mirror glass in it!

[twosmoke300]

Abs is prob an abs ring rusted out - surprise surprise . Rears usually

[jonathan_dyane]

Looks great, what sort of money will you be needing for it?

[oldcars]

Down at the local pull-your-own part scrapyard yesterday, another E320 had met its fate...

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Had more holes in the body panels than a colander. Interestingly the MOT hasn't expired.

That merc has not even had an rust advisory or fail on the mot.

[Lukas]

I'm surprised these did'nt do for MB what the beta did for lancia.

 

The W210 is considered a horrible rust-bucket, but the company-image did not suffer too much here in Austria. Why? Because it´s a german car and german cars are the best cars ever. No matter how bad they are. 

[Lacquer Peel]

Yes, premium European brands are forgiven all kinds of problems, and people still keep buying them. I guess having car magazines in your thrall helps.

[Mike D]

320 CDI are all facelift jobs, which means they get the 722.6 5 G-tronic auto box, which is nigh on bombproof*. They'll take 795 lb ft...

 

*Richard K's example shat itself.

 

*as did mine too

[Station]

A few things today - firstly, no warning lights, wouldn't go out of first gear and the speedo went to zero.

I stopped the leaking sump. I checked the 'black death' under the engine cover and there was a lot of black death. I somehow managed to disturb something and it started chuffing. Messed about with it and broke a leak off pipe t-thing on top of one of the injectors - everything is so brittle. God damn you Mercedes!! You also use an M6 bolt to hold in a 2000psi injector!

So I took the injector out and will replace all the copper seals. It's solid with hard black death. Was satisfying breaking it all off though!!

 

I'm definitely looking at selling the car in a few weeks after I've moved house, but I'm not going further than fixing the seals.

[Pete-M]

You did buy new stretch bolts didn't you?

 

Reuse the old ones and you'll go through the water jacket.

 

Also, it ain't 2000 psi. It's 1600 BAR - 23200 psi.

[Station]

I haven't even bought them yet, will go to Mercedes tomorrow, in my Toyota.

I read the seals on Honda Accord 2.2CTDI engines are better and have not failed on those who have used them.

[Lukas]

Yes, premium European brands are forgiven all kinds of problems, and people still keep buying them. I guess having car magazines in your thrall helps.

 

Fact! I have to agree 100%. Thats exactly like it is in Austria. 

 

But here, it´s not only the german "premiums" (Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi), its Volkswagen over all. People in Austria even buy more VW and Audi and Seat and Skoda now, because "the americans try to kill our favorite car-maker".      Its an act of defiance, I think. 

[Pete-M]

I've heard that.

 

I just went to Mercedes. It's near work, and the originals did 185k.

[cort1977]

All the lights went out - I jacked the car up to fix the front fogs (another problem with these cars) and when I finished, no malfunctions.

Tonight I felt a judder through the pedal at about 5 mph - then all the lights came back on. I'm guessing this is a sensor or a reluctor ring problem?

I'll fix the dodgy dash LCD displays tomorrow (allegedly an easy fix), and attempt to cure the dripping from the sump (possibly a crack or something).

If car manufacturers learnt by their mistakes by now, we'd be driving round in perfect 100% reliable cars. There's a definite list of problems with the W210 that are guaranteed to occur eventually!

 

SiC ask about those mirrors, mine have been customised with woodscrews and too many collisions with stationary objects and one has a Metro mirror glass in it!

I tried to fix the LCD displays with a new ribbon.   One worked perfectly, one still doesn't - probably due to my incompetence so I just look at my watch.   Did you get a new ribbon from an obliging bloke from Scotland on Ebay?

[Station]

No I put a strip of rubber behind, it did improve it, but missing a few pixels.

After splurging out for copper seals from Honda (only four get two more tomorrow) , for a bum raping 4 quid each and six bolts from Mercedes at a bum soothing 1.50 each, I got two injectors sorted and now they don't leak. Both came out fine, cleaned up bores and recut seat, retapped bolt holes, and popped back in with ceramic lubricant, bolts torqued down to 7nm and 180 degrees. All the Black Death is removed and it'll be spotless once I've done everything.

 

 

 

 

 

Does anyone want to make an offer on this, bearing in mind I paid 400 quid for it with no mot (it's now motd).

[Bear]

*as did mine too

 

Though in fairness, it was easily fixed - I just ran out of fucks to give for that car as it broke down during a low-ebb moment.

[Royale80]

Here's one

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2006-MERCEDES-E320-CDI-ELEGANCE-7-SEATS-LEATHER-CLIMATE-HSEATS-PDC-10-SERVICES-/291681150154?hash=item43e98d24ca:g:-78AAOSwUuFWujAq