Hi all,

I'm new to this forum, but not to forums in general. Here's some backstory:
My girlfriend (er...fiance`) has a 2005 CLK 320 she lovingly calls "Ilsa". Ilsa's getting on in years, and like a lot of German luxury cars, she's damn expensive to fix. Its a solid car (still feels less than 2 years old even though it broke 100k last month) so rather than just trade her in, we want to keep the clk going as long as possible.

I personally come from a Mustang background. I'm on a few different forums for my Mustang GT and I'm used to working on it and done a fair amount of mods to it (whole new suspension, new audio system, HID headlights, dyno tune, etc). One of the things I love about Mustangs is the community. There are tons of people out there with tons on info, helpful advice, stories, etc.

And I'm glad to see judging by this forum that it's like that for Mercedes too. I'm looking forward to seeing what I can learn here about the Benz and hell maybe I can help out too. From what I've seen under the hood of this CLK 320, it's so close to and yet the little things make very different from many of the other cars I've worked on. And it's all the little things I'm worried about screwing up that could be a huge problem.

So here we go, the first thing I need help with:

I just picked the car up from the shop for my fiance`. The air pump and associated valves and relays have just been replaced, they were all shot. The shop said it was probably the valves that killed the pump, which in turn killed the relays. Anyway, one of the things they noticed was the cap for the engine oil dipstick tube is missing, which was causing PCV problems (so they stuck a rubber plug for the time being)

I've been reading up on this and the CLK 320 has no dipstick (dealer item?) but is supposed to have a cap to keep a seal. The shop guessed that it was probably a jiffy lube or some other cut-rate oil change place that took the cap off and never put it back on.

So the question is, what does this cap look like in the first place, and where can I get it (anywhere besides the dealer?) and how much should I expect it to cost? Thanks

 

Hello and welcome to the forum. This is the info off parts.com. It's #7.



http://www.parts.com/oemcatalog/inde...layCatalogid=0