Air intake Inlet pipe M157
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Air intake Inlet pipe M157
I can't believe MB cheaps out on **** like this. It's made out of some terrible fabric. It rips easily, and even worse than that little pieces/crumbs of it get sucked into the air boxes and get trapped in the filter.
Anyone have any good replacement for these? Thinking about just cutting that crap out and replacing with flexible plastic 3" piping.
Anyone have any good replacement for these? Thinking about just cutting that crap out and replacing with flexible plastic 3" piping.
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2014 E63S; AMS 100 octane ecu tune; edok tcu tune; BB intakes; dyno tuned
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All it takes is one careless tech, getting it snagged, or a combination of heat and other environmental factors to deteriorate the glued wrap and it's game over. Hopefully you'll find it only beginning to fail and not after it's completely sucked into your air box blocking air flow.
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Just looked at my little sister's W213 2017 E300 and looks like Mercedes took notice because this looks allot more sturdy than the W212s.
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I think it's gotta be more expensive to use cloth/wire than cheap plastic --- there's gotta be some advantage to the fabric intakes
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yeah i had mine replaced after making fuss with SA...i have ext war....but yea its a BS design..both sides were bad
on my dads m278 in the s550, they use a different more rigid material but its hard a fudge to get them in place
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Thanks Peter! Pics installed in the car?
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Here they are installed. You can either re-use the stock inlet connectors (Shown on top) or use the ones provided with the plastic pipes (shown on bottom). I've done both and like the above.
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