On the wonderfull morning of 1. april 2005 ( this is not a joke ) I found some wonderfull new wheels and tyres for my CLK 200 Cab. 245 x 40 x 18 inch where to be fittet to this car. So I took out my clk from itæs winter sleep, went out and bought these wonderfull rims. So when I was on my way to the gas station to change the wheels ( here in norway we have different sets of wheels for summer and winter ). My clk has driven only 75000 km , thats aprox. 50.000 miles. 1999 model. So when I was there I tought, why not get it a bit of service. So standing in line I decided to open the roof, but it won't open! the open butten blinks red for a moment and then it blinks in a slow blinking motion. Thats problem 1. Any ideas what it can be ? Problem two the roll bar won't go out, imagine me getting a bit pissed. So when I was in the que, the guy askes if I want to change the oil, since the changing job was free. I decided to give it a small service. So he changes the air filter, cleans the empty gasget with a blow pistol, and changes the oil and filter. I see now that the car has a little bit over the max with oil.Now I only have problems with my car. The roof is one thing, but the car goes op to 80km /h and then lietterly dies. it's like it's choking, this only happens on uphils thoe! When I turn of the car, wait some seconds and start it up again it works. I went to change the plugs which it really needed and I tought that was the problem, one of the plug holes have oil on it, fresh oil! so the garage guy sais thre is a leekacghe and I have to change the top enigne gasket. he checkes the mass air flow sensor and it's not working anymore... can it be because of the cleaning of the gasket ( used air presure gun ) and some dust came inside it ?. Since the repair costs are about 1000 USD for the mass air sensor + about 700 USD to change the top gasket, im wondering where things went wrong ? And is there any possiblities to repair the mass air flow sensor ? What happend to the roof ? Going for a system check tomorrow, and see what's wrong.

 

That really sucks man. Sorry to hear about your problems. I'm not sure about the gasket change (you may need it) or if it was caused by too much oil in the engine, but the MAF could have been ruined. Inside, it has a delicate metal wire ans sensor that reads the incoming air. If that wire is broken, I would suspect the high pressure air did it.

You can buy them on ebay (v6) for around $100 USD. It is a 10 minute job to fix and you can do it yourself.

 

Thank you for your advice, you see from august 4, 2004, I have only had 18 days that I could take down the cars roof on ( thats inclding some days with 4-6 degrees celcius, with a lot of sun. So you use winther clotches), so imagine you have your easter holidays brand new Bling Bling wheels on and and take your car out from "winter sleep" that lasts about 6 months, and nothing is working!, I took out the MAS and it looked fine to me, but still, i'm going to complaint about it and ask the charge to be covered by the guy that changed the air filter.

 

lol, I can see the frustaration. Also, I had a MAF failure, so I took my MAF out and cleaned the wires with a q-tip dipped in carburator cleaner and thenm some rubbing alcohol. After driving for a few miles, the light went off and that seems to have solved teh problem. Just a suggestion to save you some money.

 

But I don't have any lights in my car either, no warning lights at all.... another thing, the roll bar won't go up or down.

 

MAS was changed today at a cost of 500 USD or 3000 NOK, got it tested up with the STAR software, a lot of f's that had to be reset. First the MAS was reportet ok, went for a drive, found it foulty now, so they changed it. so the car is really running. Was going for a test drive after they changed the MAS, was really lucky almost passed a police car in 120 km/h in 80 km/h noticed then as they where on 10 meter away and slowed down.

So now I have to figure out what the problem with the soft top is. the mechanic said it could be just some sensors that are not working. the roll bar wound'nt work either. using now alldata to locate the top hatch swith which was reportet faulty by the STAR. but second time checked everything was ok, so it can be it. Any other suggestions, nothing else was reportet on the STAR. just a "!" on the UVS that could be the sensor for the soft top.

 

Recently i had the same issue with my cab. I open the latch and the 4 windows goes down. Then i tried to lower the top and it won't do anything.
The roll cage won't come up either.

I remembered once I drain the battery and it did the samething. So I began charing the batteries. Sure enough once the battery was at full charge the top lowered again.

I think there is a higher minimun voltage required for the top to operate. Try charging the battery with a home charger and see if it works. Starting the car and let it run for a bit might also do the trick. But just by starting it is not enough though.

 

I had the batteri almost dreaned once, did a diag. test and he said the voltage was to low. Well it's not a big deal to get it fully charged so I think I will do that tomorrow. Thanks for the advice.

 

and I found the latch to the boot to be sticking. You may be able to manually put the top down and back up, and it may work. My wrench at the dealership said that he had seen a few defective well latches on 208's. Once you get it straightened out, your manual suggests that you run the roll bar and the top at least once a month, especially in cold climates. I believe it is also suggested that for temps below 5 degress C that the roll bar is left in the up position. I have no idea why. Check your manual.