VelociRaptor

Its actually "open campains", not recalls. According to MBUSA there is a difference lol. Mine was repaired under these "open campains" and it actually runs better/faster than when I first bought it

Peydidy

So today I decided to plasti dip parts of my car a bit after seeing a couple of other users on mbworld do it. First off i did my gril and it came out really nice and i love it. So i decided to do my emblems and the air vent thing on the hood. I did my emblems and they didn't come out very nice, so I am kinda scared to do the hood vents now. Any recomendations on weather it will come out nicer with plasti dip? or flat black? or any other kind of paint?
Thanks

giannidy

Getting it painted will always have a better looking finish than plasti dip. With plasti dip, you just have to do a couple light coats and one or two heavy coats and it will look good. You just have to be patient in letting it dry between coats

Peydidy

So after reading many posts on here and seeing many pictures of w203's I decided to start doing a little bit of work my self, starting with plasti dipping my grill, painting the front emblem flat black, taking off the back emblems, painting the hood vents flat black, putting in carbon fiber center caps, and putting on a AMG trunk spoiler. I also am going to be putting on a roof spoiler, painting the brakes red, and putting on a CF front lip. (I already have it I just cant figure out how to install it so any tips on that would be appreciated).

Also a thanks to JBSPEED for a great trunk spoiler, and to 05 MB Komp for the center caps and CF lip

Also its looking like my front tires are going pretty bald but only on the very sides of it but the middle still has plenty of tread, any tire recommendations? I was thinking about just going to costco and getting michele pilot sports (which is what it currently has)

Norwichdelta06

they're good tires. But check out the Continentals DWS. They are amazing tires and almost half the price. Do a comparison to the Michelins and go from there. I paid 650 for 4 tires/installed and road forced for the Continental DWS. If I wanted the Michels AS PLUS would've costed me 1000

Norwichdelta06

How do you have the Michelin Sport? I thought that only comes in an 18 inch? Unless tirerack stopped selling Michelin Sports in 17;s

Peydidy

Thanks for the tip about the continental tires that sounds a lot better because these Michelins cost a lot. I will defiantly check those out.


They make them for 17's because when I replaced my back tires a couple of months ago I bought Michelins at costco, pretty pricey tho it ran me about 550 just for the back two tires

TexFinn

While you are replacing your tires, I would strongly suggest checking the alignment as it looks like your camber or toe might be somewhat off. Hence the wear pattern.

VelociRaptor

With the way these cars go through tires I run the Raptors, cheap decent tires.

harrison1277

+1 im using the raptor zr as well, very nice tires

MBfinatic

cpbeasely's C350 6speed... One very lucky person.. What happened to him? He doesnt post anywere anymore on here or benzworld..

phister

He's been banned on here. He occasionally posts on mbjunkies but has been busy with school.

MBfinatic

Well I almost bought his C350 6spd awhile back before he did but he beat me to it. I just bought one today tho .

Peydidy

Congrats on the new car! what color?

MBfinatic

black on black. 2889X miles. 06.

Peydidy

Thats pretty sick, your lucky you have such low mileage, congrats and enjoy!

MBfinatic

Thanks! I hop I dont get treated bad on this forum since its a C350 6speed. I always see negative activity

tommy

Not at all - that's the holy grail of the W203 production run. Congrats.

MBfinatic

Yeah I waited a long time. After I sold the C55 I miss owning a mercedes TOO MUCH. I cant wait until it arrives.

Peydidy

Sorry for bringing this up again after so long. I finally got around to calling the dealership to set up an appointment to do the recalls. When I go in tomorrow should I just say that I want to get those 3 things fix? Do I need any paper work? Also will they still do it even though I have a custom intake? Me and a friend made the intake so I don't have any shop papers of having it done, would that cause a problem? Also a part of the engine cover is not on it do I need to put that back on before I go in or do these things not matter?Here is a picture of what the intake looks like:
Thanks

MBfinatic

I dont think the intake will cause a problem but thats me. What recall? Do you still have the stock intake?

Peydidy

I still do have the stock intake but when taking it off it got a little torn. The recals or "open campains are: "is the cam magnets that leak oil and destroy the entire car
2 is their is a vacuum hose under the airbox that leaks
3 the trans pilot bushing breaks off in the transmission"
I called MB and said that I saw there was a few open campaigns for my car and they said to come in tomorrow and they will take care of it, so we will see.

TexFinn

Somebody correct me if/when I'm wrong, but a recall and campaign are two different things. Recalls are always done free of charge while campaigns are necessarily not.

Peydidy

I went to the dealer ship this morning to get them done and apparently all of the recalls and open campaigns had previously been done with he previous owner. The thing thats weird is when i called the dealership to make my appointment I gave them my vin number and they looked it up and said I have recall work that hasn't been done yet. I would expect them to tell me when I called to make my appointment that the works been done so I wouldn't have to waist time going to the dealership for nothing. Made me late to class for nothing

MBfinatic

mhm that is weird. Maybe they dont want to pay for a campaign request..