Tag Archive: mercedes

2004 Mercedes Benz E55 AMG – Valve Stem Seals Blown Out, Spectacular Smoke Show Guaranteed

May 21, 2021 Auto Care, Car Repair, Engine, Mercedes Benz

This car is a beautiful, luxurious beast. Its owner loves to drive it fast. The valve stem seals were a good 1 to 2 mm off the stems, producing an incredible quantity of smoke out of the tail pipes. Read More

2012 Mercedes Benz C250 – Engine Top-End Rebuild

December 18, 2020 Car Repair, Engine, Mercedes Benz

The engine in this car was originally designed for the C-Coupe from the early 2000s. That was a port-injected, naturally aspirated affair. Now they've bolted on a vacuum pump to one cam, a high pressure fuel pump to the other cam, beefed up the timing chain to more than twice its original strength, and put a turbo on it. Read More

2011 Mercedes Benz C300 / Another Case of Mouse-itosis

December 11, 2020 Auto Care, Car Maintenance, Mercedes Benz

The intake manifold had to be removed from this engine for repair. The "tumble flap" intake control rods are made of plastic and commonly break after a while. Nothing unusual there. Read More

1999 Mercedes Benz ML430 “Leaping Engine”

December 11, 2020 Auto Care, Car Repair, Mercedes Benz

If you're getting the occasional engine misfire and no one can figure it out, maybe it's your engine mounts. Read More