Airmatic Suspension - Is there any way to park & relieve pressure??
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Airmatic Suspension - Is there any way to park & relieve pressure??
Understand the Airmatic Suspension is under constant pressure. Weather it's parked or on the road. Mine is 10 years old now, except for the right front strut. Is there any way to relieve that pressure at night when it's parked? I hear air escape when I drive long enough and bring it home to park. Does that take the pressure off the system. Tech at MB says it is always under pressure. True?
Thought might give me a little more time before I have to sell a kidney to get another strut replaced ...
Thought might give me a little more time before I have to sell a kidney to get another strut replaced ...
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Understand the Airmatic Suspension is under constant pressure. Weather it's parked or on the road. Mine is 10 years old now, except for theright front strut Is there any way to relieve that pressure at night when it's parked? I hear air escape when I drive long enough and bring it home to park. Does that take the pressure off the system. Tech at MB says it is always under pressure. True?
Thought might give me a little more time before I have to sell a kidney to get another strut replaced ...
Thought might give me a little more time before I have to sell a kidney to get another strut replaced ...
Thank you
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Changing the rotors too?
Let me know how much your full service cost afterwards(getting my 2009 cls63 amg next month so I wanna prepare my self for the heart attack
)Oh and I have this stupid unprofessional question if you don't mind me asking;how does the 8 piston brakes on the 55 perform compared with 6 pistons on 63????better?much better?worse?
Cuz I got depressed for a week when I found out the cls63 doesn't get the super awesome 8 pistons
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Take a look at the common maintenance and replacement parts sticky thread on the w211 forum. A lot of that stuff you should just do for piece of mind, like the crank position sensor. It will fail eventually and leave you stranded. If you take it to the dealer for everything, it would cost more than the car is worth. You now have 1 new and 3 ten year old air shocks. It's only a matter of time, and for the price of 2 you could have Arnotts all the way around, and maybe a new pump too. It would benefit you greatly to find a good mechanic so you can enjoy that beautiful car instead of worrying about it. It's not common, but it makes sense. There is no practical way to bleed the pressure when parked.
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I see...
Changing the rotors too?
Let me know how much your full service cost afterwards(getting my 2009 cls63 amg next month so I wanna prepare my self for the heart attack )
Oh and I have this stupid unprofessional question if you don't mind me asking;how does the 8 piston brakes on the 55 perform compared with 6 pistons on 63????better?much better?worse?
Cuz I got depressed for a week when I found out the cls63 doesn't get the super awesome 8 pistons
Changing the rotors too?
Let me know how much your full service cost afterwards(getting my 2009 cls63 amg next month so I wanna prepare my self for the heart attack
)Oh and I have this stupid unprofessional question if you don't mind me asking;how does the 8 piston brakes on the 55 perform compared with 6 pistons on 63????better?much better?worse?
Cuz I got depressed for a week when I found out the cls63 doesn't get the super awesome 8 pistons
cheers....
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Take a look at the common maintenance and replacement parts sticky thread on the w211 forum. A lot of that stuff you should just do for piece of mind, like the crank position sensor. It will fail eventually and leave you stranded. If you take it to the dealer for everything, it would cost more than the car is worth. You now have 1 new and 3 ten year old air shocks. It's only a matter of time, and for the price of 2 you could have Arnotts all the way around, and maybe a new pump too. It would benefit you greatly to find a good mechanic so you can enjoy that beautiful car instead of worrying about it. It's not common, but it makes sense. There is no practical way to bleed the pressure when parked.
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From: Ocala, Florida
2006 CLS 55 AMG
Take a look at the common maintenance and replacement parts sticky thread on the w211 forum. A lot of that stuff you should just do for piece of mind, like the crank position sensor. It will fail eventually and leave you stranded. If you take it to the dealer for everything, it would cost more than the car is worth. You now have 1 new and 3 ten year old air shocks. It's only a matter of time, and for the price of 2 you could have Arnotts all the way around, and maybe a new pump too. It would benefit you greatly to find a good mechanic so you can enjoy that beautiful car instead of worrying about it. It's not common, but it makes sense. There is no practical way to bleed the pressure when parked.
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CLS 55 AMG E500 ML320
Bosch 0261210170 Crank Position Sensor (CPS) - $34 Takes about 5 minutes to put in if you tape the socket to the extension and put contact cement in the socket so you don't drop the bolt. Probably $400 at the dealer. Unless they break the bottom clip on the Y pipe taking the intake off to get more room to look at it. Symptoms are car dies without warning. Sometimes it will restart when it cools off.
