MarkS797

2018 E63S Amg

i was out driving this weekend, i had the car in drift mode shifted from 1st to 2nd and heard a load noise. The car started to making noise and could hear a chattering noise from the rear passenger side wheel, ABS light on and check engine light.

zukmeister

go by a car part store and have them read the car codes, that would be a good starting point. Those guys will do it for free instead of paying $200 some dollars for dealer to do the same thing

MarkS797

The car is making to.much of a rattling and cluncking noise. The car doesn't driver properly, rather tow it.

Keith66

Without us being able to hear or see it, it's pretty difficult to diagnose, but from what you describe, it sounds like you either broke or otherwise mangled a CV joint.

Or possibly broke an axle. Again, hard to know without looking at it and hearing what you hear.

Good luck!

Cylinder Head

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Definitely take it to a dealer or indie. No way for us to know what is happening with just your description.

MarkS797

I had the car diagnosed : 50450km
the right rear axle shaft sheared off at the splines and wheel bearing has failed and has impacted the right rear wheel hub and knuckle assembly as well. This is causing the clunking noise you are hearing when driving. they said it could have been a defective part that sheared off like that.....any thoughts??

The vehicle will require replacement of the right rear axle shaft, wheel hub, bearing and knuckle assembly.
I was advised from the repair shop to seek for goodwill or policy, has anyone went this route for goodwill??

the actual axle failed causing extensive damage to others parts.

figuwx

goodwill means asking nicely and hoping they would do something with that.

If you have extended warranty, it should be covered. If the OEM warranty expired without extended warranty being purchased, you are going to be eating that cost.

kponti

So seems MB has started cheaping out on their axles huh? I blew my front as well with less than 10K miles on the odometer. I have heard of a few other breaks

W205C43PFL

Yikes, I did hear about this on the forums every so often, I wonder if there is a certain batch with this issue?

superswiss

Goodwill means MB Canada in your case covering some of the cost due to the failure not supposed to happened or indeed possibly a bad part from the beginning and unfortunately not failing early during the warranty period. This is why I'm generally not a fan of low mileage cars, even though mine is turning into one. But the less miles a car has the more likely it is that a bad part will fail out of warranty instead of during the warranty. I've had goodwill repairs in the past and the dealership went to battle for me to get it from corporate. At most I had to nicely talk to the service manager, but most of the time they did it on their own, because they already knew that the specific part shouldn't have failed this early and it was clearly not due to external factors.

With the E63 and drift mode, one of the potential issues is that it is not supposed to be used on public roads. The roads are bad in many places and not sure how much headroom AMG engineered into it given that you are supposed to drive it in AWD mode on public roads, so the drivetrain load is shared with the front axle. Don't know how often you drive in drift mode, and whether the car keeps track of it, but if they feel it's been in drift mode too much, then they may just blame it on that.