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Had this same warning on my cluster and same dipstick reading about a month ago so put half a liter of oil in.
Fast forward to this month and I got the message yet again today. Anyone else have an issue like this? I let the car sit 10-15mins before pulling dipstick reads and it shows up a lil over half which is supposed to be technically good. Should I pour another half liter in? It seemed to fix the warning but I’m wondering if this is even an issue to begin with since its dipstick reading is technically fine?
Also I don’t seem to have any leaks from what I can tell, my garage has not had a spot and purchased the car from my local Mercedes dealership exactly 2 months ago and they gave it the whole maintenance before I purchased it. Since then I’ve put about 2500 miles on it. Seems to be going through half a liter of oil every ~1k miles from what I can tell.
Any advice or experience with the situation would be helpful. Thanks in advance. I’m new to Mercedes ownership and I absolutely love the car to death.
2009 SL550 Roadster Diamond White, 2008 CLK550 Coupe Obsidian Black
Check if there are any leaks around the engine area like on the exhaust manifolds from maybe the valve cover gaskets or something. I had that once, but was a very small leak. The difference between min and max is about 1 quart so would probably just put the other half in for good measure.
Had this same warning on my cluster and same dipstick reading about a month ago so put half a liter of oil in.
Fast forward to this month and I got the message yet again today. Anyone else have an issue like this? I let the car sit 10-15mins before pulling dipstick reads and it shows up a lil over half which is supposed to be technically good. Should I pour another half liter in? It seemed to fix the warning but I’m wondering if this is even an issue to begin with since its dipstick reading is technically fine?
Also I don’t seem to have any leaks from what I can tell, my garage has not had a spot and purchased the car from my local Mercedes dealership exactly 2 months ago and they gave it the whole maintenance before I purchased it. Since then I’ve put about 2500 miles on it. Seems to be going through half a liter of oil every ~1k miles from what I can tell.
Any advice or experience with the situation would be helpful. Thanks in advance. I’m new to Mercedes ownership and I absolutely love the car to death.
I had the same issue as you. I got the check oil level at next stop so I checked the dipstick and added some fuel. Later I got check engine light for P0015. Also my mileage is at 43k I owned the car brand new.
2009 SL550 Roadster Diamond White, 2008 CLK550 Coupe Obsidian Black
Originally Posted by Channu
I had the same issue as you. I got the check oil level at next stop so I checked the dipstick and added some fuel. Later I got check engine light for P0015. Also my mileage is at 43k I owned the car brand new.
Does your P0015 keep resurfacing sometime after oil changes?
2009 SL550 Roadster Diamond White, 2008 CLK550 Coupe Obsidian Black
P0012, P0015, P0022, P0025 have to do with the camshaft adjustment solenoids at the front of the engines (Commonly called magnets). There are four and each code is respective of which magnet. P0022 is the most difficult to change while the other three are very straight forward. So P0015 is throwing for the passenger side exhaust magnet. I would check all your magnets and see what the part number is on them. There are now three versions of the magnets (I recently changed all my version 2 magnets to version 3 in hopes of getting rid of my recurring P0012 code).
Version 1: 272-051-00-77
Version 2: 272-051-01-77
Version 3: 272-156-00-00 (Latest version)
P0012, P0015, P0022, P0025 have to do with the camshaft adjustment solenoids at the front of the engines (Commonly called magnets). There are four and each code is respective of which magnet. P0022 is the most difficult to change while the other three are very straight forward. So P0015 is throwing for the passenger side exhaust magnet. I would check all your magnets and see what the part number is on them. There are now three versions of the magnets (I recently changed all my version 2 magnets to version 3 in hopes of getting rid of my recurring P0012 code).
Version 1: 272-051-00-77
Version 2: 272-051-01-77
Version 3: 272-156-00-00 (Latest version)
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