Need Help with C280 Sport Muffler Clamp
08-14-2013, 01:53 PM
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2000 c280s
Need Help with C280 Sport Muffler Clamp
This is too strange.
My 2000, c280 Sport needs a muffler clamp that has totally rotted away. For a week or so it was rattling around and finally simply fell off.
No big deal, go to the local muffler shop and get another....NOPE! They tell me it is a dealer item only.
Go to the dealer, with pictures of the two pipes that need to be connected...NOPE!...never saw such a thing. Must be an aftermarket exhaust system. I tell them I'm the original owner and bought it from this same dealership. They check and sure enough..one owner..me...No Aftermarket exhaust system. But that doesn't help as they have NEVER seen such a connection on a Mercedes!
We spend an hour trying to find the part. It doesn't show up on any of the parts drawings....Nothing.
Here is a picture or two of the two pipes that need to be connected back together. Anyone have any idea where I can find the appropriate clamp. The car sounds like a tractor currently!
Thanks in advance!
My 2000, c280 Sport needs a muffler clamp that has totally rotted away. For a week or so it was rattling around and finally simply fell off.
No big deal, go to the local muffler shop and get another....NOPE! They tell me it is a dealer item only.
Go to the dealer, with pictures of the two pipes that need to be connected...NOPE!...never saw such a thing. Must be an aftermarket exhaust system. I tell them I'm the original owner and bought it from this same dealership. They check and sure enough..one owner..me...No Aftermarket exhaust system. But that doesn't help as they have NEVER seen such a connection on a Mercedes!
We spend an hour trying to find the part. It doesn't show up on any of the parts drawings....Nothing.
Here is a picture or two of the two pipes that need to be connected back together. Anyone have any idea where I can find the appropriate clamp. The car sounds like a tractor currently!
Thanks in advance!
