View Poll Results: When did your Supercharger go bad??
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Has your Supercharger gone bad?
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Has your Supercharger gone bad?
How many of you guys have already had your SC replaced by MB or out of your pocket?
-I would like details on when this went out and at how many miles. The cost with labor would be nice too...
-Any modifications to the car?
also mention if your SC is stock or with aftermarket pulleys..(dont really know what that is)
thanks in advance guys!
-I would like details on when this went out and at how many miles. The cost with labor would be nice too...
-Any modifications to the car?
also mention if your SC is stock or with aftermarket pulleys..(dont really know what that is)
thanks in advance guys!
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Guess I should clarify, not the supercharger itself, but the I/C pump failed.
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Clarify? You should change your vote! I guess that's probably hard to do.
It would be useful to have the questions revised so that those that failed are divided between fully stock superchargers and superchargers with aftermarket pulleys.
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Those of you that had a failed IC pump and/or SC, please list the mileage you were at when it went bad.
I'm just over 38K now and am afraid it's a ticking time bomb...lol
I'm just over 38K now and am afraid it's a ticking time bomb...lol
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Mine was replaced under warranty. Not sure when. I bought the car with 80k miles and it had already been replaced.
I have also have a new IC pump, radiator, rebuilt tranny, front bushings, arms, water pump, fuel pump.. I could go on.. all under warranty..
I have also have a new IC pump, radiator, rebuilt tranny, front bushings, arms, water pump, fuel pump.. I could go on.. all under warranty..
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I turned down the $1500 dealer charge but got hit with a $690 diagnosis fee.
Bottom line.. my kompressor clutch is failing (everday I drive it goes off and I need to restart the car to get it back)
I found the compressor bearing online and I'm going to try to fix my car through a local shop.
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new tranny and ECU due to the 1st and 2nd jerk.
IC pump I changed on my own through a local shop.
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It's just money and it's a Mercedes, I did not buy the C32, because it was cheap to maintain. It's lot easier to change the supercharger on a C32, than the turbos on my old 2001 S4.
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Seems to me the people who had them replaced under warranty are just as likely to have a second failure out of the warranty as someone who has not replaced it. In fact, there's a rule-of-thumb used in the aircraft (jet engine) maintenance business that a jet engine that has run 1/3 of its scheduled time without incident is likely to have a full, uneventful life, and one that has had an early incident is likely to have more.
So, I feel pretty good about my odds.
PS: And like the guy above, I'll take one supercharger over two turbo replacements any day!
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How can you reach that conclusion? You have to be assuming that every supercharger will fail after the warranty and before we sell the car.
Seems to me the people who had them replaced under warranty are just as likely to have a second failure out of the warranty as someone who has not replaced it. In fact, there's a rule-of-thumb used in the aircraft (jet engine) maintenance business that a jet engine that has run 1/3 of its scheduled time without incident is likely to have a full, uneventful life, and one that has had an early incident is likely to have more.
So, I feel pretty good about my odds.
PS: And like the guy above, I'll take one supercharger over two turbo replacements any day!
Seems to me the people who had them replaced under warranty are just as likely to have a second failure out of the warranty as someone who has not replaced it. In fact, there's a rule-of-thumb used in the aircraft (jet engine) maintenance business that a jet engine that has run 1/3 of its scheduled time without incident is likely to have a full, uneventful life, and one that has had an early incident is likely to have more.
So, I feel pretty good about my odds.
PS: And like the guy above, I'll take one supercharger over two turbo replacements any day!
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intercooler pump went dead at 55k miles. other than that the car is a beast currently at 72k miles. I'm covered till 2009/100k miles anywayz, so no worries. If it fails after 100k so be it what would you expect after 100k miles of lead-foot.
