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Gas odor when tank is full
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1984 300TD/2006 CLS55/04 E320 wagon/05 CDI crashed :(
So I pulled up the carpet and access port and found a bit of very old liquid around the sealing ring both inside and out of the housing. I cleaned it with paper towels and then found the sealing ring itself wasn't tight. Wasn't overly loose but it did spin about a 1/3 turn. Everything else looked fine on both sides. No cracks, nothing out of the ordinary. The passenger side was dusty dry. Hoping this solves any issues!
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1984 300TD/2006 CLS55/04 E320 wagon/05 CDI crashed :(
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2008 E350 4Matic, 2011 E350 4matic
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There is a thread somewhere over here that one can submit for reimbursement. Does that apply to repairs occurring after 15 years have passed?
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2014 CLS500 (NO 4MATIC)
2014 cls550, gas smell fixed
This is the fuel pump sender unit. It's located under the rear seat driver side.
Now you see the sending unit completely removed and the pull string they're waiting so that I can install the new one when I get it in 48 hours. If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to me.
As you can see this is the top of the sending unit and the cracks are abound. This must have been leaking for a while, but finally got to the point to where the gas smell could not be buried. Initially I did not want to do this, but the dealer wanted to charge me $2,300 for this fix.
Just to make things easier because I did not want to put my hand in the gas tank and try to fix it through the small hole I just attached the string on the disconnected hoses from the fuel pump so that I could pull the entire unit and the string out to the other side. When I replace the part I will just attach a string and pull it through the other side in the reverse order.
