maxxwell22

I recently purchased a CLK 430, year 2000. The car has 123500 miles on it and drives ok. i've been driving now for about a month, when the car died on me while parking it. It started up after the 3rd try. When i came out an hour later it took about 7 trys to start, it sounded like no fire, just turning over,not running hot, no indication lights at all. The dash indicator does say service B overdue 7000 mi, what is a service B

mint

Uh, that's a major servicing you should have gotten 7k miles ago.

Good luck getting manhandled by the dealership.

maxxwell22

Well it was like that when i bought it,but didn't notice it till a few days later. In fact the only thing that showed up on the display was 1 malfunction, wiper fluid. I filled it and it went away, then this popped up a few days after.

mint

Either the dealer forgot to reset the servicing interval (which is what I hope it is) or it really is past 7k miles for the servicing.

I'd take it to the dealer to clarify and reset the computer if need be.

IownZu

maxxwell22 : did you ever figure out your hard start? sounds like a crank sensor.

C43AMG

+ 1

jimpott

Check out "Signal to Noise" by MarcusF. He's got a lot of info set up for us! Look under "Flexible Service System" for the list for A&B services.Changing out the Crankshaft Position Sensor(CPS) is here also.