alsted.hanson

I have a 2003 E500. Repair after repair for the past 12 months that I have owned the car. Up to $9,000 in repairs for these 12 months.

Newest one!:

Was at a client site, car was in garage for 3 hours, come out, start the car and I get all these warnings:

display defective visit workshop
coolant visit workshop
esp defective visit workshop
stop lamp visit workshop

The RPM Gauge, Speedometer, Fuel Gauge, Engine Temp Gauge bounces up and down. When I accelerated the car did not respond 100%.

I shut the car off - started back up and still had same errors. Drove it about 15 minutes to take to mechanic - temp was normal but still same problems. Also noticed fan was on.

Got to a stoplight right near the mechanic - shut it down until light went back to green. Went to start - would not start.

I did notice about a week ago that when I shut off radio, it stayed on for a few seconds before turning off. Not sure if related.

We have been getting a lot of rain in Florida but I have not been driving in high water.

I read on here and looks like some issues were relate to ECU and SAM.

I have it at the mechanics now - just trying to identify what it is going to be so I am not too shocked once I get the call with diagnosis.

Any ideas?

despicable merc

Where do you fix it? Regular bodyshop? Those people can only do things like oil and filter change, some suspension component. Not whole a lot of things can be done there. Anything related to computer habe to be done by MB or certified MB shops.

mickday

I had a similar problem with my S211 E55K it turned out to be the rear SAM was defective. It will need to be put on Star to diagnose
https://mbworld.org/forums/mercedes-...-w211-e55.html