driveability

I need to replace my injectors, 12 of them CL65, 2005. Having trouble finding them. Lots of places list them but have no stock on hand.
Any help ???

Plutoe

I find your claim very hard to believe, what is the real story or post your VIN as I am assuming you want new!

RaceHorse

What's hard to believe, that he had an injector stuck and wants to replace all, or that mercedes doesn't care to be in the parts business and parts for old cars are not readily available? If it's not a currently used injector in the newer 65s it may take some time to get, only after orderingand paying for it from the dealer. It mat not be a demand for an aftermarket company to produce. Sadly these cars are becoming dinosaurs and will require old parts to be rebuilt or retrofitted with alternative parts. Independent shops complain about part availability.

driveability

I didn't think they would be hard to find but they weren't easy as say a spark plug or air/fuel filter.

I did find a set (ECSTuning) and they are on their way

Wonder if there's a place that reports each injector specs
that way it might be easier to substitute hard to find ones

MooksM275

Glad you seemed to have found some in stock. Your story is very scary, and sadly happens to a lot of cars these days. E60 M5 have many stories of stuck injector and hydrolock. I have read stories of slk55, e63, c63 etc all with similar endings.

FWIW, the part number for bosch injector to match ours should be :
BOSCH 0 280 156 233.

I was worried about this even before I saw your story and plan to have my injectors cleaned by a professional fuel injector shop (they do ultrasonic cleaning). After much research and discussion with fuel injector techs, the most likely reason for a stuck injector is fuel gum getting caught between the pintle and not allowing it to close. In fact, if your car sits for long periods between driving, it is at a greater risk of injector sticking for this reason. As for our injectors, I had mine out and had the basket filter replaced with new seals at around 80k miles. The fuel injector shop said that the old basket disintegrated and was very brittle. Maybe the combination of long sitting as well as the new blended fuel.

In your case, you were actually lucky that this happened to you when you were stopped. What happens to many people is that they are driving on freeway etc and for a long period that stuck injector washes down the cylinder and the rings and cylinder wall fails. The engine would be kaput in that case.

I firmly believe that injector cleaning/replacement is very important on our cars given the insane price that a replacement engine would run.