teamSPB's New Project...Mercedes CLS...time to be PIMP
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2014 C63 Sedan
Recently I have noticed my headlights bulbs have been pretty poor at lighting up the road so I have been looking into getting replacements. I LOVE the Ring Sportz Blue bulbs I had in there, but thinking they have trouble with projector style lamps (As we have had this issue on a Corsa with projector style headlights), I decided to update the car further more. I wanted the bi-xenons but can't find them for the love of God! I decided instead to use some 55w HID's in 6000k temperature/colour. Looks very OEM and looks exactly like the Xenon equipped cars. Further more, no error lights at all! 55w HID vs 80w Ring Sportz Blue Next up, I wanted to change the wing mirror for later spec items, I found a set on offer and snapped them up! Big thanks to 'television' for sending me the instructions on the wing mirrors! Old vs New Wing mirror covers removed and looking dirty It was all washed down and given two layers of Poor Boys Bare Bones for protection New mirrors on LED lights on the bottom to fully working teamSPB
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From: Belgium, East-Flanders
CLS320cdi, GL350BT, ML270cdi
check this thread :
https://mbworld.org/forums/cls-coupe...heels-etc.html
https://mbworld.org/forums/cls-coupe...heels-etc.html
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Cls55
All I can say is PD front bumper is a PITA! NO help from PD themselves either. Would NEVER recommend them! Feel like putting my standard bumper back on and burning the PD one! Never dealt with such a company before!
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Cls55
Best place for it is the skip! So ****** off ATM!
Their website states the fit is so good that you will pay less for a body shop to fit the kit and spray it as everything lines up….Funny that as my body has quoted £1200 JUST to fix the front bumper and get it right!
Their website states the fit is so good that you will pay less for a body shop to fit the kit and spray it as everything lines up….Funny that as my body has quoted £1200 JUST to fix the front bumper and get it right!
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2007 cls 550, 2000 bmw 740il, 2006 suzuki hayabusa, 1998 acura cl 3.0, 1984 corvette
Nice cls bro do c219 have airmatic suspension? Id like to know more about your hydro set up. Might be a good idea instead of air strut replacement. Props on that ipod mini set up too. My ecm failed on my cls550 so im just lurking.
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Sorry for not updating in such a long time!
Inside the packaging was this...
The car actually hasnt been with me since around February/March time hence the lack of updates.
Lets go back to Feb time. I was driving on the motorway when the dash started beeping at me telling me I had a loss of brakes and to pull over, obviously freaked out at this, I immediately pulled into the hard shoulder and slammed the brake pedal as per instructed on the dash. The car had already selected a lower gear to help engine brake the car! Truely impressed! I switched the car off and then on again and it was perfect! No warning light and brakes were perfect! Strange I thought, but as I was in the middle of no where, I proceeded the journey with care and the car never had a problem ever since.
Once I was back home, I booked the car in with Mercedes to diagnose the problem with the brakes and although the problem was a one off occurrence, fault codes were logged in the ECU and indicated the SBC pump was on its way out. Mercedes performed the necessary check on the SBC pump and it was reaching the end of its service life...this is when things were looking harsh on the wallet!
Mercedes actually recalled these units and covered them under warranty as they were prone to going wrong. There was also a recall to provide a solution for another problem with the pump which my car had already been for some time in its past. However, due to my car having non-original brakes, they would not cover me for the part or the labour required to change this part although many people have been able to get their units changed FOC.
The price of the bill would be around £2000.
Obviously not happy with this, I pulled a few strings and got Mercedes to email the headoffice in Germany and told them that its a recall and despite the brakes being non original, they were still off the same Mercedes but just happened to be AMG versions. In the end, they gave me a 50% discount off the total bill which I was more than happy to pay
The car was left with Mercedes with employees taking lots of pics and generally loving the car lol! It came to the date when the car was booked in for fitting, had a call from the technician 'sorry sir, we are showing 1 SBC pump on the shelf but it has gone missing so we will have to order you another one'....great! NOT! So we had to wait 7-days for it to turn up from Germany, and then find another slot to book me in!
Finally the car went in and the brakes felt great!
Some pics we found of the car up on instagram and facebook etc!
Luckily a friend of mine was working on the station next to where the CLS was so he was keeping an eye on it!
While the car was away, we changed a few other bits - Lambda sensor, glow plugs and a few other little bits. Big thanks to Sanj for sorting these!!
Check the state of the old glow plugs!
A sneak peak on the front bumper...
And the new logos we recently had made up
With that, the car was packed up and sent to the bodyshop!
Inside the packaging was this...
The car actually hasnt been with me since around February/March time hence the lack of updates.
Lets go back to Feb time. I was driving on the motorway when the dash started beeping at me telling me I had a loss of brakes and to pull over, obviously freaked out at this, I immediately pulled into the hard shoulder and slammed the brake pedal as per instructed on the dash. The car had already selected a lower gear to help engine brake the car! Truely impressed! I switched the car off and then on again and it was perfect! No warning light and brakes were perfect! Strange I thought, but as I was in the middle of no where, I proceeded the journey with care and the car never had a problem ever since.
Once I was back home, I booked the car in with Mercedes to diagnose the problem with the brakes and although the problem was a one off occurrence, fault codes were logged in the ECU and indicated the SBC pump was on its way out. Mercedes performed the necessary check on the SBC pump and it was reaching the end of its service life...this is when things were looking harsh on the wallet!
Mercedes actually recalled these units and covered them under warranty as they were prone to going wrong. There was also a recall to provide a solution for another problem with the pump which my car had already been for some time in its past. However, due to my car having non-original brakes, they would not cover me for the part or the labour required to change this part although many people have been able to get their units changed FOC.
The price of the bill would be around £2000.
Obviously not happy with this, I pulled a few strings and got Mercedes to email the headoffice in Germany and told them that its a recall and despite the brakes being non original, they were still off the same Mercedes but just happened to be AMG versions. In the end, they gave me a 50% discount off the total bill which I was more than happy to pay
The car was left with Mercedes with employees taking lots of pics and generally loving the car lol! It came to the date when the car was booked in for fitting, had a call from the technician 'sorry sir, we are showing 1 SBC pump on the shelf but it has gone missing so we will have to order you another one'....great! NOT! So we had to wait 7-days for it to turn up from Germany, and then find another slot to book me in!
Finally the car went in and the brakes felt great!
Some pics we found of the car up on instagram and facebook etc!
Luckily a friend of mine was working on the station next to where the CLS was so he was keeping an eye on it!
While the car was away, we changed a few other bits - Lambda sensor, glow plugs and a few other little bits. Big thanks to Sanj for sorting these!!
Check the state of the old glow plugs!
A sneak peak on the front bumper...
And the new logos we recently had made up
With that, the car was packed up and sent to the bodyshop!
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From: UK
Designo Brilliant Black Paint W219
@teamspb,
I saw this car two days ago in Milton Keynes dealership parked outside the valeting section towards the parts department as I took my car in for service. The car was really really lowered to the ground and I was like
I saw this car two days ago in Milton Keynes dealership parked outside the valeting section towards the parts department as I took my car in for service. The car was really really lowered to the ground and I was like
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Cls55
And you wouldn't have seen it on the 'floor'…they left it raised for normal driving
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Designo Brilliant Black Paint W219
Anyway, good to hear your car is back on the road.
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Another update….in preparation for MIVW, we thought we would throw out some more pics for you all...
Everyone following us on instagram (add us on teamspb) and Facebook would have seen these pictures already…but for those who haven't…here you go...
Some of you may have heard the rumours…new wheels were on the way….yes they were! But in the guise of Vossen CV7 10.5"x20 for the fronts to!
A quick reflection shot of the paint…
And finally, a better shot of the new front wheel setup
Stay tuned tomorrow for MIVW prep pics!
Everyone following us on instagram (add us on teamspb) and Facebook would have seen these pictures already…but for those who haven't…here you go...
Some of you may have heard the rumours…new wheels were on the way….yes they were! But in the guise of Vossen CV7 10.5"x20 for the fronts to!
A quick reflection shot of the paint…
And finally, a better shot of the new front wheel setup
Stay tuned tomorrow for MIVW prep pics!
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From: Belgium, East-Flanders
CLS320cdi, GL350BT, ML270cdi
that is looking Great !!
did you had to do any modifications to fit these in front ?
I'm currently looking to mount a 10j squared setup.
maybe any info on the ET -offsets ?
did you had to do any modifications to fit these in front ?
I'm currently looking to mount a 10j squared setup.
maybe any info on the ET -offsets ?
