09 e350 age issues?
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'13 CLS550; '21 G550; '16 GL450 Formerly - '03 CLK320, '11 ML350, '09 E350
09 e350 age issues?
Hello all,
With 2 kids under 2, finally made the tough decision to get rid of my 03 clk320 coupe for something with a backseat and room for these enormous carseats. Found a practically new 09 e350 with just 25k miles for a good price and pulled the trigger. Doesn't have airmatic and is rwd, amg wheels, and drives great. I'll be picking it up this weekend once its been processed by the dealer.
Since its such low mileage, what should i be on the lookout for? My father-in-law and i do all the maintenance on the clk and my 11 ml350 so id like to be prepared, I've been reading about SBC failure and balance shaft issues.
thanks and looking forward to participating in the forum.
With 2 kids under 2, finally made the tough decision to get rid of my 03 clk320 coupe for something with a backseat and room for these enormous carseats. Found a practically new 09 e350 with just 25k miles for a good price and pulled the trigger. Doesn't have airmatic and is rwd, amg wheels, and drives great. I'll be picking it up this weekend once its been processed by the dealer.
Since its such low mileage, what should i be on the lookout for? My father-in-law and i do all the maintenance on the clk and my 11 ml350 so id like to be prepared, I've been reading about SBC failure and balance shaft issues.
thanks and looking forward to participating in the forum.
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No SBC on this car, it was removed as part of the major w211 refresh for the '07 model year. I think you should also be good on the balance shaft issue, but dig up your engine number and check it against the TSB - the information is posted in mbworld somewhere.
These are pretty solid cars. I'd just give it the usual inspection, catch up on any deferred maintenance and repairs, and drive it. It's probably overdue for a brake fluid flush. Coolant is 15 years on this car, so you are good there. Trans service is due at 40K miles, so you are good there. MB doesn't spec a differential change for the w211, but it's not much of a concern at current mileage.
These are pretty solid cars. I'd just give it the usual inspection, catch up on any deferred maintenance and repairs, and drive it. It's probably overdue for a brake fluid flush. Coolant is 15 years on this car, so you are good there. Trans service is due at 40K miles, so you are good there. MB doesn't spec a differential change for the w211, but it's not much of a concern at current mileage.
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thanks for all the help guys, especially for sending the data card. Now that i have what is exactly on the car, I've found a few discrepancies with what the dealer listed are on there. It was listed as having bluetooth, keyless go, parking sensors, and ipod adapter, none of which are listed on the data card. When i drove the car, i did mention that it didnt have parktronic so i knew that going in. I could care less about ipod/mp3 adapter but bluetooth it a big deal and keyless go (which i didnt even realize when driving it) would be nice. I'm going to bring it up and see if they'll work with me on taking some money off, but what would be reasonable? I've seen i can get the bluetooth puck for around $150, so that seems reasonable but what about keyless go?
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If car is not prewired for BT, then it will cost you a lot more than $150 to have operational BT. And keyless go is not there? I'd easily knock off $2K. The '09 is a good MY, and with that low mileage, I'd go for it, but you've got to bargain too arguing they misstated the car's equipment.
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Well you're talking about the P2 package. You can't really add Keyless go after the fact, the costs would be too high that you'd be better off trading in the car and buying one with it. The door handles alone are $300 each plus the shifter, antenna, and additional items that make up the whole system, probably at least a couple thousand unless you find all the parts in a junked car. The handles are well known to fail on the W211, they got redesigned in the W212 and I haven't seen too many threads about them going bad in that forum. You're basically looking for the P2 package, somewhat of a rare combination, maybe 1 in 5 or 1 in 10 have it. That was keyless go with bixenon headlamps, headlamp washers and active curve illumination. I believe the headlamps turn about 12 degrees to the left or right depending on how the steering wheel is turned. A fun option. For keyless go, look for the silver button on the shifter which says start/stop, if it just has the MB star logo, it doesn't have keyless go. You can also look for the button on the handle, but that's typically hard to see in the pictures. There's also a sticker under the hood warning of high voltage if you have the bixenons, sometimes you can make it out if there's a picture of the engine. The sports package had the headlamp washers so that's no sign it has the bixenons/P2. If you don't see the headlamp washers, then it definitely doesn't have the bixenons and probably doesn't have keyless go either as most cars had the P2 package if it had keyless go.
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If car is not prewired for BT, then it will cost you a lot more than $150 to have operational BT. And keyless go is not there? I'd easily knock off $2K. The '09 is a good MY, and with that low mileage, I'd go for it, but you've got to bargain too arguing they misstated the car's equipment.
Well you're talking about the P2 package. You can't really add Keyless go after the fact, the costs would be too high that you'd be better off trading in the car and buying one with it. The door handles alone are $300 each plus the shifter, antenna, and additional items that make up the whole system, probably at least a couple thousand unless you find all the parts in a junked car. The handles are well known to fail on the W211, they got redesigned in the W212 and I haven't seen too many threads about them going bad in that forum. You're basically looking for the P2 package, somewhat of a rare combination, maybe 1 in 5 or 1 in 10 have it. That was keyless go with bixenon headlamps, headlamp washers and active curve illumination. I believe the headlamps turn about 12 degrees to the left or right depending on how the steering wheel is turned. A fun option. For keyless go, look for the silver button on the shifter which says start/stop, if it just has the MB star logo, it doesn't have keyless go. You can also look for the button on the handle, but that's typically hard to see in the pictures. There's also a sticker under the hood warning of high voltage if you have the bixenons, sometimes you can make it out if there's a picture of the engine. The sports package had the headlamp washers so that's no sign it has the bixenons/P2. If you don't see the headlamp washers, then it definitely doesn't have the bixenons and probably doesn't have keyless go either as most cars had the P2 package if it had keyless go.
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I think you have a newer version of NTG for your Comand so I don't think it needs the pre-wired for bluetooth code. 2006-2008 had the older version of comand that used the bluetooth puck in the center console. The P2 package was probably an extra $2k over the P1 package, but it'd probably cost 4-5k to add it all in after the fact as the bixenon headlamps alone use to list for $1500 each. Now I think they're down to $500-$700. The killer part of it is that you can find cars with the P2 package, but they don't really cost that much more than cars that don't have it so it's best to find a car that has it as you're not really paying much more for it. It doesn't even have an option in nadaguide for P2, all they care about is mileage, navigation, sport package. Only reason why it costs a little more is that every time I see a car with P2, it's gone within a week or two if it has an average price. Cars that don't have it sometimes sit around for a while til the price drops later. My real conclusion is that MB is a status car, not a real luxury car because most cars on the road didn't come with a lot of luxury options.
