Add These Two to your Must-Do Maintenance List!
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04 CL55, 05 E500S4, 15 BMW i3 REx
Add These Two to your Must-Do Maintenance List!
I made a trip to MRF Engineering to have my ball joints replaced as well as my fuel filter. WOW! It feels like a new car! The suspension feels much tighter, and the fuel filter completely eradicated my slightly rough idle and hesitation upon acceleration. I highly recommend adding these two items to your must-do list! 
Next are new tie rods, lower front control arms, and pressure accumulator.
Gotta stick to Lemfoerder!
Next are new tie rods, lower front control arms, and pressure accumulator.Gotta stick to Lemfoerder!
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04 CL55, 05 E500S4, 15 BMW i3 REx
Both readily available on eBay or wherever. They are Lemfoerder ball joints and a Hengst fuel filter. About $70-80 for the ball joints and under $20 for the filter.
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I have my car up on my lift right now and will be doing the fuel filter tomorrow morning. If you do the maintenance on these cars yourself they are not very much to maintain. I just pulled my throttle body today to get the map sensor out and that was a real pain. Had to customize some tools to get the inner most bolt out.
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Hey,
I am assuming your fuel filter was restricted ? I've replace a lot of electric pumps (Not Mercedes Benz) and found when replacing a restricted filter like yours may mean the pump may go soon. I guess that didn't sound quite right, my meaning is since the filter was (?) restricted it made the pump work extra hard for that period of time. Electric pumps are sensitive IMO Maybe someone can chime in about this ?
I am assuming your fuel filter was restricted ? I've replace a lot of electric pumps (Not Mercedes Benz) and found when replacing a restricted filter like yours may mean the pump may go soon. I guess that didn't sound quite right, my meaning is since the filter was (?) restricted it made the pump work extra hard for that period of time. Electric pumps are sensitive IMO Maybe someone can chime in about this ?
