Problematic Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG Wagon Does a $600 Burnout
YouTuber’s high-mileage E63 Wagon already had enough expensive issues. After he rips a donut in it, it has even more.
Tyler Hoover of the popular YouTube channel Hoovies Garage loves buying the cheapest example of a particular car that he can find. As you can imagine, whatever money he saves up front (and possibly more) will probably go into fixing the issues he’s bound to have with the vehicle. He recently found a 2007 Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG Wagon that fit his criteria. It was only $13,000…because it had 204,000 miles on it. You know where this is going…
If you guessed straight to a Mercedes dealer, you’re right. That would be bad enough if Hoover had bought the car near his place in Kansas, but he didn’t. He got it in New York and decided to try driving it all the way home. The E63 Wagon almost finished the trip without a major issue. Almost. “I was about two and a half hours from home when the electronics went insane, my gauges quit working, and it wouldn’t restart,” Hoover said. The gateway computer had gone out. After parts and labor, the fix cost him $1,100.
After picking his long-roof up from the dealer and ranting about how much Mercedes is “cheapening the [AMG] brand,” Hoover takes his car to his pal, the Car Wizard (aka David Long), so he can give it a full health check. Before Long can even take a look at it, Hoover does a burnout in front of his shop. Hoover’s appointment was already going to cost him, but that little stunt just makes things worse. It turns out doing burnouts in cars like Hoover’s is bad for their power steering pumps. In fact, he finds a thread about it right here on MB World!
Hoover’s antics fry the pump so he needs to get a new one of those…and get his Check Engine light to go off. All four of his pads and rotors need to be replaced. Long’s inspection also reveals a bad ball joint and an oil leak. Hoover’s E63 has an ESP issue that needs to be resolved, too.
The good news is the ESP problem can be remedied with an inexpensive new brake switch. The rest of the news is bad news. To get everything wrong with his E63 right again, it’s going to cost Hoover a total of $3,750. He gets strategic with his repairs and the associated costs. Hoover tells Long, “It’s an old Mercedes. It’s going to leak oil ’til the end of time and not be a problem so let’s not do the upper oil pan.”
Passing over that one issue saves Hoover roughly $1,000…which he’ll probably end up spending on another repair in the not-so-distant future.