![]() ![]() I have put an insurmountable of money into this car and I'm very disappointed. The car shakes (the k frame) and the steering wheel has a lot of play in it which I was told will always be like that unless I get it repaired. Fortunately I've been lucky but what happens now, my new tires in the rear (which I think may have been like this when I bought the car) wear out within 6 months and I often wondered why. I moved from new jersey to south carolina driving this car. I have driven this car continuously since having it repaired. I now have to pay out of pocket to find a used k frame and pay for the labor. I want to know why the insurance adjuster did not notice the bent k frame. I had just purchased the car the month before as a used vehicle. I now find out the car has a bent k-frame not to mention the work was shoddy on the body work. The car was taken to a body shop and repaired. The whole front of my car was damaged (smashed up into the windshield). While waiting for the light to turn green, my car accelerated and I ran into the back of a pickup truck. I was involved in a accident at a stoplight. I feel it is dangerous to operate my vehicle.Īll problems of the 2002 Mercedes Benz C230 I looked online and found a forum with several other people having the same problem on a variety of different vehicles of different years. The red warning light only comes on when the steering wheel lock lever is pulled out, but it does not show that the steering wheel is disengaged when the lever is pushed in even though the locking mechanism does not function. I pulled over attempted to reengage the steering wheel lock in several different positions, but it would not stay locked. I started driving and while I was making a right on a curve the steering wheel slipped out of place and almost caused me to swerve into another lane. I then pushed the steering wheel lever lock back in (red warning light disappeared). What could be more dangerous than having your front-end suspension disintegrate spontaneously without warning?.Īll problems of the 1998 Mercedes Benz C230Īfter placing the vehicle in park, I pulled the steering wheel lever lock, (red warning light came on), and adjusted the height and depth of the steering wheel. He said other dealers are charging $5,000 for the repair to both sides. I just got a quote of $2,000 from one dealer over the phone to fix both front spring perches, and it could be more if anything is damaged other than the perch itself. Why does NHTSA let Mercedes Benz get away with this without demanding a recall? when you look on the web, you can see that this is happening to many people, and not only is mercedes refusing to fix it for free, dealers are charging customers thousands of dollars to fix the design flaw. The car is a '98, but with only 148,000, this should not have happened. If I had been driving at highway speed I and anyone else in the car could have easily been killed, not to mention other vehicles, since the vehicle steering is also compromised with the wheel bottoming-out on the inside of the front of the vehicle. When I searched on-line I found that this is something that happens all the time with various models of Mercedes Benz. ![]() When I got out of the vehicle to inspect what had happened, I could see that the front spring had separated from its top mount in what I assume was the frame of the vehicle. I was waiting for a draw bridge to come down after a sailboat passed, so the car was turned off. ![]() I was sitting stopped in traffic with the engine off, and the front drivers' side of my vehicle just spontaneously dropped as if that part of the vehicle had fallen into a sink hole. Its just a product to them, a money maker. ![]() Now I can't do anything with the car right now because it's expensive to repair for such a cheap piece that shouldn't have never been on it and because #1 I'm on a fixed income #2 I still have to pay for it. I'm glad my kids wasn't in the car and it wasn't a horrific outcome. If I wanted a junk car I would've went to the "junk yard" paid like 250. ( intake manifold tumble flap) some plastic junk on an expensive car. It's the classic problem I never heard of until today. I pressed the accelerator to the floor but no speed. Check it wasn't the fluid (this happened a few month ago I thought hmmm probably just something freaky) then 1/8/16 riding down the busy interstate highway the car acceleration just left. My first incidence was driving and the steering would all of a sudden get stiff like it needed power steering fluid or something. ![]()
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