mr747

Hi Guys

There was a guy on FB last night that suffered a failed turbo
His Car was plated FEB 14
If you have any loud squeals or noises take your car back to MB

There might be a recall on the turbo soon

There has been 3 cases so far

nlpamg

Oh crap. Mine was built in February of 2014.

mr747

call your dealer bud and ask them if there is any recalls
When i get home tonight i will post the link from FB here so you can see

ML63 AMG

Already?!... Damn that was quick

Were they "stock" (aka modded). Or were they actually really stock?

nlpamg

Thank you! Are you talking about Akram? I'm on the Facebook group as well.

It wasn't that quick. He's referring to A45 AMG's which have been sold for almost a year already.

mr747

^^^yes im talking about AKram

Koru_Kinshi

Mine was built in October. I'm good, I think.

bmoney12

The below talks about a recall for some with build dates before Feb 2014 but after are supposedly ok. I would assume this is something completely different?

http://www.mercedescla.org/forum/14-...33-engine.html

Exotic-metal55

Anyone get a new Turbo under warranty yet?

mr747

australian customers just recvd there letter from mercedes
All cars need to be checked both cold and hot and it will take app 2 1/2 hrs to do

bigantne1968

last night my turbo blew up the car lost power and smoke came out of the tail pipes and I'm on vacation,I'm 300miles from home and i had the car towed to my dealer now i have to get a rental car to get home.but the good news is they will pay for the and the two night stay in the hotel. because there is no rental car place open on sunday.

itzjonjon69

^ holy moly, i'd be pissed!

MTV10

With 26 lbs of boost from the factory, it's nothing but expected

Viper98912

I wonder if these cars are stock or not

zibby43

Nothing like fraud!

I'm not judging at all but that's what it is so I wouldn't post publicly that you removed the mods (or that you had them). Because it was a turbo failure (i.e., a motor-related failure), Mercedes-Benz would easily be able to deny warranty coverage due to the presence of the tune.

Personally, I seriously doubt the tune had anything to do with it given that there seems to be a turbo issue.

Nonetheless, I sincerely hope you are able to get everything resolved.

HIRO63

My turbo failed last week. My car was not the recall vin number car but it failed. So even dealer say that your OK I think that there is chance that turbo can fail. So I do think that AMG really have to look into all the cars if they are OK or not.

My car was delivered Sept 2013 did about 11,000 km.

Dealer changed all the oil line, engine oil, filter and turbo. I heard that the problem was the oil line.

I hope that nothing will happen again after another 10,000km.

shardul

iTrader: (1)

there are pics posted on this forum for the failed turbos by a MB tech

Koru_Kinshi

Mercedes went ahead and replaced mine, though it was running smoothly. Said it had .1 mm of shaft play, which was unacceptable, so they replaced it.

No complaints here.

bigantne1968

got the call from benz the turbo was locked up there getting a new one and all new oil lines and the o2 sensor and maybe the cat they will know after they get the car running.it mite be done by wed.

mb techman

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Shifter

The issue is with early oil lines , I've replaced one and made a post about it. Parts were readily available, next day.

mb techman

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516mbtek

Good to know thanks for the info

C63newdude

This is bad news... I never thought I would see a topic like this talking about so many turbo failures on such a new car but on the other hand I was very suspecting(had my reservations) about the reliability on a turbo running that much boost from factory.

I wonder if this is more like a bad batch of turbos.

CarHopper

Hey lets take 26lbs of boost and turn it up with a tune. It'll be fine....

Saw this coming. Hope you fellas have a reasonable time and have all your issues fixed up.