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300SE servicing

The 300SE didn’t come with much concrete service history. I started a full service on the car to establish a baseline. This will allow the car to be properly maintained to the factory schedule. The service items arrived this week, after a quick call to MB Spares in Canberra.

So far I have done the following:

Oil and filter change Renewed spark plugs Transmission oil and filter change Differential oil change Power steering oil and filter change Removed the after market chrome wheel arch trims

Still to do, is both petrol filters, air filter and to properly flush the […]

January 15th, 2017 | Tags: , | Category: Mercedes | 2 comments

280CE major service continued

The 280CE came over to the garage to continue the items on the major service, namely:

New Spark plugs Transmission fluid and filter Rear end fluid change Brake fluid flush

We used NGK spark plugs as they offer non-resistor plugs that are easy to find. The original spec for these cars called for non-resistor spark plugs, which are much harder to find now. The plugs that were already in there were Beru and in reasonably good condition.

For the transmission, we changed the fluid, filter and pan gasket, but didn’t drain the torque converter. When doing this it is important […]

October 10th, 2014 | Tags: , , | Category: Mercedes | Leave a comment

450SLC – ready for another year

The 450SLC spent the last two days at Arthur Rizzo Motors getting ready for the next year on the road. The car was hesitating a bit, and not idling quite right, but a new set of plugs seems to have fixed that. (#1 was a bit coked up). The steering was feeling a bit floppy – so a new tie rod end has somewhat improved it, although at some point I’m going to need to have the steering box removed and resealed as there is no more adjustment left in mine and there is a slight leak. At 288,000 this […]

June 19th, 2013 | Tags: , , , | Category: Mercedes | Leave a comment