Don't ask me why (ok, it was a cheap move on his part) but my brother got an oil change for 95 C280 not at a Mercedes Dealership, and now he has an oil leak. It's pretty bad. Everywhere he parks a few drop are always left. Anybody else had an oil leak problem or maybe know why???

 

Although it could be as simple as the drain plug not tightened correctly, the only time this hapenned to me, the oil filter was defective. I took it back to Goodyear, and they redid the oil change for me at no cost.

 

That's funny, that's where he got his.

 

More than likely if you find a leak RIGHT after having the oil changed that you've never had before, it's the fault of the oil change place for putting the filter in wrong or not getting the drain plug in there properly.

 

God help you if they stripped your oil plug. Hopefully not! Good luck!! Otherwise I would do this to your local Goodyear mechanic....

 

Thanks for everybody's input . I'll try to bring it back this week and see what the problem was. Brand new to the forum and to Mercedes. I love it...

 

i hope not!!! caus oil filter goes in 1 way!!!

 

Also Inspect the Crush Washer on the drain plug
if they TRY to reuse it..OIL LEAK

 

It's probably not a drain plug or crush washer problem-MBZ dealers have sucked the oil out for years.The oil-filter kits don't even include a drain-plug copper washer any more.
Have you tried looking from under your car to see your leak's source?.

 

yeah, they said it's the head gasket. man, they said it would be like $800 to fix. i couldn't believe it when they said that. oh well, it's just a gasket, maybe i'll try to do it myself. any suggestions?

 

$800...that sounds much better than my $1200 for mine. The early w202's were prone with headgasket leaks, of course, they fixed the problem from 97+ I believe.

Good luck with it man.

-G-

 

$800 is suspiciously cheap for doing the head gasket the RIGHT WAY.If you don't believe me,try it yourself-after all,it's "just a gasket",right?.
What I'm trying to tell you that there is no cheap way to replace your leaking head gasket if you want the new one to seal properly.It's time to decide if you want to sink a grand or so into your car to make it healthy again,or....

 

Ya...$800 is really cheap for that kind of job on a MB. I went to a regular garage for an estimate and they said minimum $1000...becareful where you go to get it fixed, you want it to be done right or it's going to cause more problems down the road.

-G-

 

my oil pan was on the verge of being grinded up by the defective harmonic balancer/crankshaft pulley but i caught it before it did so it was all good. (i know you already found the problem) just FYI.