Reached half-life in the E500?
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Eurocharged 2004 E500, Eurocharged ECU/TCU 2005 SL600, 2010 Caddy SwaggerWagon
Reached half-life in the E500?
Purchased this car as a dealer buy-back with 29,000 miles on her. She's still running as close-to-new. Wonder if I can get 200K out of her.
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Yeah, no surprise with the motor. No worries there.
Real question is: how many times has it been in the shop for electronics, sensors, software updates, and airmatic?
Real question is: how many times has it been in the shop for electronics, sensors, software updates, and airmatic?
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Stuff I can remember:
Right front ball joint/thrust arm bushing
Front wheel bearings
Rear airmatic shocks (found not to be bad, but swapped for troubleshooting - Dead body in trunk thread)
Dynamic seat switch module
Transmission valve body and software updates
Motor mounts
Various squeaks/rattles
All were covered under warranty except the wheel bearings. That was done outside of the 50K warranty. Since the car was pretty sound up until the 4/50K, I decided to roll the dice and not get an extended warranty. Gamble has paid off so far. However, currently, the car appears to need a new shifter (keyless-go issue) and driver side keyless-go receiver/antenna.
Of course, all maintenance has been done out of pocket, since the 4/50K, including spark plugs that I changed myself.
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"Shift quality" is what's on the buy-back statement.
When the 7G tranny was first put in the 2004s, they did have some rough 1-2 shifting as well as rough 2-1. On this very forum, I found the information needed to make an educated decision about what the probably culprit was. I called my local dealer with the VIN and they confirmed that the car did not have the updated valve body and had never had the TCU flashed with latest software. I purchased it, had the DTB performed, and it's been fine ever since. Well, as fine as the 7G can be, anyway. These 7Gs are finicky, even the new ones.
When the 7G tranny was first put in the 2004s, they did have some rough 1-2 shifting as well as rough 2-1. On this very forum, I found the information needed to make an educated decision about what the probably culprit was. I called my local dealer with the VIN and they confirmed that the car did not have the updated valve body and had never had the TCU flashed with latest software. I purchased it, had the DTB performed, and it's been fine ever since. Well, as fine as the 7G can be, anyway. These 7Gs are finicky, even the new ones.
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Yeah, I have a 2009 and even though it's all updated, it gets confused once in a while. None of that 1-2, 2-1 slamming around sort of stuff, but just a computer confusion on rare occasions. It's like it's not sure what gear it's supposed to be in. But in full manual M mode and in S mode it behaves just fine.
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Actually, no. She was driving her R500 up until 3 weeks ago when I sold it and put her in a supercharged Range Rover.
Well, she got sick of driving the R500 a couple of months ago and stole the E500 from me, but 90% of the miles are mine.I still run around in the E500 mainly, and drive the SL once a week at most. I drove it this past weekend for the first time in 3 weeks. But, in the Spring and early Fall, I do drive the SL more as the temperature is more conducive to top-down driving.
It's been 90+ here in the DC area for a couple weeks in a row now and that's just too damn hot for me to drop the top on the SL.
Last edited by Benz-O-Rama; Jun 28, 2010 at 08:28 PM.
