Those of you with leaky fuel pumps might like this.

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/feds...edes-1C8930024

 

Great find! Excellent work everyone and special thanks to GregMB for organizing this whole thing!

 

This is a great start, and I agree GregMB has put in a lot of effort +++.

E owners keep submitting the complaints.

 

It only mentioned E55? How about other 55s?

Thanks for the news

 

or even other Mercedes that share these parts

 

Nice maybe other news agencies will pick this up as well

 

+1

Great start, but we need more exposure. Many thanks to GregMB and others at the forefront of this.

 

i like how they said "initially focused on a small number of high-performance Mercedes E55 AMG's" LOL damm right they are high performance and need to be focused on haha but anyways great news, def spreading out there

 

This is great news.

 

My local CBS news picked this up

 

Nice! You got a link?

 

Google fuel leak Mercedes. It's all over the news online

 

They love to stress that no fires or injuries have happened, is that what they are waiting for?

 

That's GREAT coverage.... I'm pleased to see it.

Obviously, they don't have the latest info on the E55 reports. My last update of the spreadsheet shows a total of 80 E55's with official ODI numbers logged with NHTSA. It's going to be awfully hard to explain this away as "damage from incorrect recall service" for that many cars..... unless they insist that their dealers (and service techs) are grossly incompetent.

Thanks to all of you on MBWorld for keeping the pressure on, and for pestering the membership here to file official ODI claims with NHTSA. I know at times it seems pointless, but the sheer numbers of complaints logged will eventually force MB-USA to respond in a more meaningful way.


-G

 

Nice! We need more logged complaints with the NHTSA!

 

Would love to see this on fox news or CNN, that would be great and would hurt MB's reputation

 

Looks like a lot of news agencies are picking this story up... including Fox, CBS, NBC, Yahoo News, etc.

https://www.google.com/search?btnG=1...edes+fuel+leak


I just went into Photobucket and made sure all my pics have good "tags" on them so that people searching for Google Images will find lots of relevant and scary stuff too.


-G

 

No, I meant on tv broadcasts, just like they did for Toyota, ford etc. when they had problems

 

We'll have to see what happens. It seems like a pretty big explosion in reporting and the fact that NHTSA announced it was expanding its investigation to include 250,000 cars (last Friday) makes the story a lot bigger than it had been previously.

Fingers crossed!

-G

 

Absolutely! I hope that MB actually makes a new part instead of just replacing with the same parts endlessly, in the long run its better for them to just make a new part

 

Hulk set you yourself on fire when you step out your AMG
I will call Channel 7

 

After you

 

I'm glad finally we are getting coverage. And that nhtsa are looking at 250,000 and not just the few hundred complaints. It's going to expand to other class cars I'm sure if they use he same parts. But I think instead of designing new part, mb will settle w each owner $xxxxx

 

Check the evening news tonight. It will be mentioned in a 10 sec story

 

I would looooooooooove to have my $1500 back that I spent on this repair... probably not gonna happen, but I'll dream about Kleemann headers in the small case that it does.