My first misfire - 2019 AMG C63s Coupe
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UPDATE
- Dropped off the car to my dealer yesterday and received a call earlier and was told that they're going to be installing the LATEST (New) ECU firmware which is about 4-5 hour procedure having AMG Engineers involved. They also got my authorization to drive the car for 25 miles for "AMG adaption"?
- At this moment, these are the only bit of information I have and I will let update here if I receive any more info.
- Do you think this new update has to do with this known issue (misfire) which I assume AMG is aware of?
- Does it address the pop/crackle issue?
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UPDATE
- Dropped off the car to my dealer yesterday and received a call earlier and was told that they're going to be installing the LATEST (New) ECU firmware which is about 4-5 hour procedure having AMG Engineers involved. They also got my authorization to drive the car for 25 miles for "AMG adaption"?
- At this moment, these are the only bit of information I have and I will let update here if I receive any more info.
- Do you think this new update has to do with this known issue (misfire) which I assume AMG is aware of?
- Does it address the pop/crackle issue?
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- Dropped off the car to my dealer yesterday and received a call earlier and was told that they're going to be installing the LATEST (New) ECU firmware which is about 4-5 hour procedure having AMG Engineers involved. They also got my authorization to drive the car for 25 miles for "AMG adaption"?
- At this moment, these are the only bit of information I have and I will let update here if I receive any more info.
- Do you think this new update has to do with this known issue (misfire) which I assume AMG is aware of?
- Does it address the pop/crackle issue?
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Got the car back earlier today with below notes from service dept.
Drove the car in town visiting my client and got my first misfire AGAIN followed by engine light and loss of power and shaking; restarted the car and got everything back to normal but few minutes later, misfire happens again and engine light stays ON no matter how many times you restart the car. Had to drop off to my dealer again. Let's see what's next :/
Drove the car in town visiting my client and got my first misfire AGAIN followed by engine light and loss of power and shaking; restarted the car and got everything back to normal but few minutes later, misfire happens again and engine light stays ON no matter how many times you restart the car. Had to drop off to my dealer again. Let's see what's next :/
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Got the car back earlier today with below notes from service dept.
Drove the car in town visiting my client and got my first misfire AGAIN followed by engine light and loss of power and shaking; restarted the car and got everything back to normal but few minutes later, misfire happens again and engine light stays ON no matter how many times you restart the car. Had to drop off to my dealer again. Let's see what's next :/
Drove the car in town visiting my client and got my first misfire AGAIN followed by engine light and loss of power and shaking; restarted the car and got everything back to normal but few minutes later, misfire happens again and engine light stays ON no matter how many times you restart the car. Had to drop off to my dealer again. Let's see what's next :/
Did they mention at all what the ecu update was for though?
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UPDATE: Received a call from my SA earlier and was told that they’ll have to keep the car for a while since previous instructions didn’t resolve the issue. Now MB of U.S is involved.
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@Ben Khoshabeh , I just pulled my old invoice and it says the EXACT same thing as yours (other than yours is cylinder 4, mine is cylinder 5). Not sure if you want to show this to the tech to see if he can try it out rather than waiting MB US.
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@Ben Khoshabeh , I just pulled my old invoice and it says the EXACT same thing as yours (other than yours is cylinder 4, mine is cylinder 5). Not sure if you want to show this to the tech to see if he can try it out rather than waiting MB US.
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@Ben Khoshabeh , I just pulled my old invoice and it says the EXACT same thing as yours (other than yours is cylinder 4, mine is cylinder 5). Not sure if you want to show this to the tech to see if he can try it out rather than waiting MB US.
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@Chino075 per my last conversation with my SA today, exact same bulletin as yours will be applied to my car. Btw, what’s your built and model?
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@Ben Khoshabeh , I just pulled my old invoice and it says the EXACT same thing as yours (other than yours is cylinder 4, mine is cylinder 5). Not sure if you want to show this to the tech to see if he can try it out rather than waiting MB US.
This is ridiculous, instead of checking the engine with the coil packs changed for 4 and 5, the freaking guy put the coil pack back into Cylinder 1 and 2? Like Cylinder 4 and 5 got messed up a bit, let me do that for all your cylinders? Where do Mercedes hire these guys from?
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I see your concern on this and I'm no mechanic, but I can relate on why it was done. I do this with RAM too, if I know DIMM slot 2 and slot 4 are ok, I would want to put the faulty ones in slot 2 and 4. That will prove to me that it's the RAM and not the DIMM slot 1 and slot 3.
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This is ridiculous, instead of checking the engine with the coil packs changed for 4 and 5, the freaking guy put the coil pack back into Cylinder 1 and 2? Like Cylinder 4 and 5 got messed up a bit, let me do that for all your cylinders? Where do Mercedes hire these guys from?
As others have stated, that it an extremely common procedure to check for a bad coil pack and/or spark plug. If the misfire follows the coil/plug, you've found your issue. If the misfire stays on the same cylinder, you carry on with further diagnostics. If they hadn't done this, then I'd begin to question the mechanic's abilities.
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As others have stated, that it an extremely common procedure to check for a bad coil pack and/or spark plug. If the misfire follows the coil/plug, you've found your issue. If the misfire stays on the same cylinder, you carry on with further diagnostics. If they hadn't done this, then I'd begin to question the mechanic's abilities.
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No I know this is common procedure to find faulty coil pack, I have done it on my beaten up corollas and civic, but I sure as hell won't play the same game with a 90k car. Specially when the STAR diagnostics is specifically pointing out to misfires in cylinder 4 and 5. Like I said, you are not playing with a Corolla here, we pay a premium for these cars, run to the parts department and get some new coils, put them in 4 and 5 and run diagnostics again. Atleast that is what my expectation would be if I had a c63s in service.
That'd be a waste of two brand new coil packs if the original ones ended up not being the issue. And if your car came in running fine other than a slight misfire, the original misfire wouldn't have caused any damage to the engine internals. No need to worry about any other damage by moving the coil packs to a different cylinder. While our cars are more sophisticated and higher performance than your old Corolla or Civic, the fundamentals behind how to wrench on one are pretty much the same.
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I asked about release notes on the ECU update but I didn't get a solid answer. My assumption is that they'll never release those information to owners? But honestly, when i picked up the car last week and before having my second and third misfires the same day, I noticed more pops and crackles from the exhaust but I may be wrong at the same time since I was driving a ****ty C300 loaner...
My Sales Associate was telling me they once had a cab misfiring when they were unloading the car for the first time to dealership few months ago.
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