Just bought car a week ago! Fixed a gas leak, thankfully just a hose. Ordered kw coil overs, control arm, bushings, and tie rods. The starter went yesterday and that will be fixed tomorrow! I have a long way to go to 100%
BAZOOKA HOOKED UP AND THUMPING!!!! Being 43 my girlfriend asked me when am i going to grow up! I said in a few more years. Lmao. Be safe and roll on!!
Just bought car a week ago! Fixed a gas leak, thankfully just a hose. Ordered kw coil overs, control arm, bushings, and tie rods. The starter went yesterday and that will be fixed tomorrow! I have a long way to go to 100%
Finally pulled out the wiring for the front brake pad sensors. The housings don't work with my C36 caliper upgrade and they had to be zip tied up. At least now I can get to work splicing the C36 caliper harness I got from a donor caliper so I can get the light operational once again. Also changed the oil while I was at it.
1994 C280
1996 C36
2005 C55
2013 Volvo XC60 R-Design
1999 Porsche 911
......dang now I know where all my money went.
I just bought a 2000 C280 Sport the other day (16 Feb 2013) and I only have added a new hood ornament onto it (the day I bought it).
I am awaiting to have the vehicle inspected. It runs fast, which I really like, but it accelerates unrealistically. The gas mileage is not as good as my other C280 and I think it may have been chip tuned. A problem with the speedometer gives me reason to believe the car was taken well above 260km/h. The cup holder is broken too, of course... and it makes an odd sound when turning left while going over 25km/h.
Other than that, my 1998 C280 Elegance that I have owned for two and a half years has had thousands of dollars of work done on it as I have owned it. The previous owner did much as well like new front window and repaired rack & pinion. Since I bought it, the repairs of the past about 6 or 7 months include:
-Transmission repairs
-New pan & gasket
-Hoses
-Fluid change & new filter
-Electrical plug
-Engine
-New oil filter housing
-New MAF after previous (Valvoline) air filter was partly eaten from not allowing enough air at 216 KM/H. Now it has a real air filter in it.
-Exterior
-New hood ornament
About to purchase:
-New tires in a few thousand miles. I bought the ones on it new brand new (V speed rated) and they lasted me only a year of ‘my’ driving.
-Repair rims or buy new OEM rims of some sort.
-$1400 (before tax) welding job to make car driveable again; the passenger side front spring perch broke off. It’s apparently a somewhat common problem other Mercedes drivers have had.
This is just the recent repairs…in the past months, and what I need to do next. Earlier repairs were things like tires, multiple & suspicious gas leaks, brakes, tune up, and fuel pump.
It's expensive to own a Mercedes Benz, but if I (or others) went with cheaper cars: I would be spending more money on blown engines, more cheap cars after driving them to the death, collapsed suspensions, 3,000 mile oil changes about once every month or so, and I could have been killed from performance driving in something unreliable. Mercedes Benz is the way to go, you know.
This list would not have been worth sharing if I didn't drive so much, and that when I did drive that it was slower.
Silver 2000 C280 Sport
Silver 1998 C280 Elegance
Dark Blue 1995 C280 Elegance (Totaled by Dealer on first day; gone)
My 1998 C280 had the rattling exhaust part last year (maybe the same problem you described). One garage told me it would be about $600 to fix as they lied to me about the job requiring a new pipe and what not. I went to some little garage with a good reputation and the person looked at it and told me it was the hanger for the pipe that rusted and was causing the rattle. He told me the pipe should not be changed since its stainless steel good Mercedes Benz quality- long story short - he was able to weld it back on using some scrap metal he had. Only $178 was the bill and it worked great.
I don't remember if you had any exhaust mods done, but if you have not already then now may be the time to do it if you need to get it fixed. Check to see if its your hanger near the catalytic converter. Don't settle to pay more than $180 for the repair if its the problem. Good luck man.
To increase your life span, like I did for myself by staying away from by ex-girlfriend and her cruel friends, check to see if your C280 has the opening from the trunk to the passenger compartment. In the trunk there may be two latches (from what I remember) that release the back seat's vertical piece for more space (or at least the center piece). Maybe something is lose over there? Also check the two head-rests that fold, maybe they are lose? And the health kit in the compartment between the two head-rests rattles in my car sometimes, so check that too. I hope you solve it soon man, that must be so annoying to listen too.
Silver 2000 C280 Sport
Silver 1998 C280 Elegance
Dark Blue 1995 C280 Elegance (Totaled by Dealer on first day; gone)
Finally fixed a small lil prob with my antenna. Some times it would work perfect and some times not. Tore the booger apart yesterday and found the problem on the printed circut board. One of the resistors needed to be resoldered. And hot dang it works just like new again!!!!! Roll on all and be safe!!
Just got the crank position sensor installed!! So far the car starts every time when the motor is warmed up! The real test comes in a few, to see if my girlfriend can start the lil beast with no problems!! Will keep all posted. Still have the bogging issue, cam position sensor next!! And only from autohaus!!