Another Road Trip, another Flatbed breakdown AGAIN!!!!!
 

81 from it's northern most start to New Orleans and back all the way to Bristol TN before the front driver's side wheel bearing went out without warning. Flatbedded to Rick Hill Imports a Mercedes dealership. I find out tomorrow when they can get the parts. Looks like the bearing is fused to the spindle, not fun and no warning!!
I am thinking YES

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Eeeew!

Lemme know if you need anything shipped to you for the repair...

Is this in an 81? Or in your 99 daily driver?

A 98 just went up for parting out...
http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/diesel-discussion/360659-need-parts-parting-out-1998-e300-ohio.html

Thanks the 1999 E300 Turbo Diesel Highway 81

really starting to think of selling ;-((

I am getting so tired of this

When was the last time the front wheel bearings were serviced?

Fronts 3 years ago. Rears never.

I always check for play when I rotate and when I do seasonal snow / summers they were always tight and noise free.

Obviously not serviced enough.

How many miles are on the vehicle? The one being parted out has 200k.

340,000km

211,000 miles

barely broken-in?

Some 606s I know of still had the factory hatching at 300K miles. So yes, hardly broken in. Where are you located if selling is the plan?

Maybe someone put a Chinese replacement bearing on that front axle at one time. I had to prove to myself just how bad some of them are unfortunately.

Fooled me a few years ago. I have seen them fail in very little time and miles with the worse ones.

Parts are in and installed $$$$$

They couldn't get the speed sensor off to transfer over to the new part so I have no cruise control, BAS SRS and ABS lights on the dash.

They also examined the passenger's side and found it as now. It was repacked and we are on the way.

Driving without cruise gives poorer mpgs in my case.

Man, this thread and some others lately concerning the late 90's 300d's has gotten me to really think about not getting one. Shame bc im in the market for a new-to-me diesel preferably a mercedes after enjoying the 124 for about 10 months. Sorry for your troubles edbso. Hope it all works out in the end and no more road trip gremlins.

Thats a bummer. The farthest I have driven any of my old MB's is from Delaware to Allentown, PA in my 300TE. It didn't have any issues at all but the long trip did cause the sidewalls of my tires to start cracking :eek: When it has new tires I wouldn't think twice about driving it anywhere.

Indeed. I did Carson City, NV to Miami and back in my 300D without incident. I also did CCNV to ATL and back in my old 240D, but I did end up having to swap a starter halfway through. Keeping the pedal to the floor pretty much all the way from Kansas to Salt Lake wasn't exactly fun either.

6600 mile trip in e300 and Repacking/monitoring bearings?
 

I just got back from a long road trip with the e300 that was 6600 miles from OH to OR and back. I tried to get all the PM done prior to trip and the car performed really well.

I was a little concerned when we drove from southern OR to Utal and had to pass through a delolate area that lasted 350 miles. We only saw three other vehicles and one small town with a gas station. I was thinking about belts and bearings a little during that time.

I will say that the left front area is now rumbling at a low level when I turn to the left so I am going to check and see if the bearing is bad. It starting doing this when I was doing switchbacks out in the Western US in the Badlands of SD and Glacier Park, MT. The sounds would go away when I straightened the car out.

Checking and repacking the bearings is a good idea periodically.....anyone have a service frequency on the W123, W124s? W210? and W211s. I think it may not be a bad idea to at least pull the caps and make sure the grease is adequate in quantity and quality on an annual basis? Repack every 2 years? Can the rear bearings be repacked?

new parts and still have BAS SRS and ABS lights
 

Installed new speed sensor, and plastic guard (that came directly from Germany) and I still have BAS SRS and ABS lights on the dash.

My OBD2 reader shows no codes and even when reset to clear. The BAS SRS and ABS lights are still on.

Is this something that has to be reset by the dealer only? Or how can I reset it? Could it be that the be Bosch sensor is bad?

I have tried the steering wheel reset. Hard left and hold for a couple of seconds then hard right and hold a bit and nothing changes

That level code needs STAR Diagnostics to display and clear.

Only the emissions related codes will display and clear with a generic OBDII reader. MB only included the minimum required by Federal regulations.

Thanks, I feared so.

It appears as though the speed sensor is working as the cruise control now works again during the test drive, that also suggests that the brake switch is also functioning.

After being stranded on the road and having a MB dealer do the work (but couldn't get the sensor) I am hoping that the code read and reset is a nominal cost or free.

Did the dealer install the sensor? If so clearing the code should have been part of their labor charge.

No, they couldn't get one fast and I wasn't interested in delaying our trip for a couple more days. The plastic holder came from Germany.

I installed it myself.

Tomorrow I will see how generous our local dealer is.

Have you tried disconnecting battery for say, 30 min?

I once replaced the ABS pump on my e320, after which the brake system reset itself and trouble lights disappeared. Srs is airbag related, I think, so that must be caused by something else.

The SRS light needs to be reset either by the dealer or a indy with the proper equipment. It is one pain to clear, and can be caused by any number of things. In my case, it was the "passenger side" seat detector that came up as the culprit. To repair that requires that the entire seat be removed, taken apart, and another "passenger sensor" be installed. There are some China sellers on Ebay that advertise a code reader that will cancel the SRS code, but in my case it did absolutely nothing. There was one seller that advertised a "passenger seat occupied emulator", but I never had a chance to try it out. My passenger side spring perch failed, and I ended up selling the car "as is". Good luck!!

same here, seen a number of bearing failures lately (wheel, pulley, etc) and 100% of the recent failures were no-name no-markings, most likely chinese.

i just replaced a brand new no-name no-markings belt pulley where the bearings failed, overheated, and seized solid. the no-name pulley had less than 20k miles on it. i replaced it with my old used genuine mercedes pulley (made by ina) that had more than 80k miles on it, but was still silky smooth and tight.

when it comes to ball or roller bearings, use skf, fag, or ina. nothing else. a single flat-bed ride makes the chinese ones a lot more expensive.

Went to the dealer today where I purchase most of my parts locally and they wanted $119 to reset the codes.

Indie time.

That's about 1 hr at dealer. Indy won't be a lot less. I read of one guy who had indy clear code in Toronto. $85 even although it only took a few minutes :(

I think you can clear code with Carsoft. Hardly worth buying it just for that, but perhaps someone near to you has it? Of course clearing code won't fix the problem.

Good luck with it.