People Say I’m Full of Crap About Mercedes, Well Watch This

one two three it's time for the scotty kilmer channel today i'm going to show you why mercedes-benz often turn them into money pit machines if you drive them for any serious length of time now take this beautiful looking mercedes it runs good ride's good but when i hook up this fancy scan tool i have look at all the red trouble codes that it has it's just got red trouble codes all over the place okay i counted them all there are 25 trouble codes that show problems this car now has so yes this beautiful looking and i must admit beautiful riding vehicle has already 25 separate problems that exist in the car because of all the crazy computer controls that they put in them now everything on this mercedes is practically run by a computer module as you can see here there's a suspension control module that operates the rear suspension it's a computer just for that and if you're curious just that module costs 595 dollars they also have computer modules that operate the lighting system that operate the stereo system that operate the transmission and they're all equally as expensive and take a look at the one shock absorber for the front right if you go over here it costs one thousand one hundred ninety dollars that's the price of one shock absorber and if you look at the labor for putting that shock absorber in one side runs 2.3 hours labor and when i called a local mercedes dealer here in houston they charge 160 an hour labor so there's a lot of money changing these parts out and okay if all this complexity lasted a long time didn't break that'd be one thing but hey as we've already found with my little computer here this baby's got 25 problems already but from just bad designs as you can see the front rotor here there's a giant ridge on the edge and here's why it occurred for some strange reason mercedes-benz keep making brake pads that don't cover the entire rotor now if this was a toyota or a ford or whatever they make the pads the right size so they fit over the whole rotor and wear it evenly but now mercedes they deliberately make the pads so they don't cover the whole rotor so the rotors wear on the inside and leave a tiny ridge the whole way around so when it's time to change the brake pads you have to change the brake rotors with it or the new pads will hit this ridge and squeak like mad and of course like toyota 4 chevy you want a brake pad that covers the whole rotor the more surface area the brake pad catches the more heat dissipation you'll have and the better your brakes will work this bad design that always creates a ridge on the outside and on the inside here too just requires new rotors every time you do a brake job if you don't want noise so they can make a higher profit doing the job i just can't wait to see what the mercedes lovers are gonna come back with when i upload this video on youtube how they can possibly defend this horrible design scratching their head at that one look at this they're recessed way inside here so if something ever goes wrong it's almost impossible to work on them without ruining the wheel the lug nuts are so far recessed in if anything ever goes wrong and they get stripped you're going to spend a small fortune fixing something as dumb as a lug nut heck and don't even get me talking about these stupid low-profile tires they're great for a racetrack they corner great and all that but driving them in the city look what happens not only does the room get eaten up but the tires get chewed up all the time because they don't have much sidewall they'll hit curbs bumps on the road will make them smash holes in them planned obsolescent has gone berserk with these germans perhaps one of my favorite crazy but this is this watch you open the door the window automatically opens itself a little crack here and then when you close it it automatically closes itself the rest of the way system breaks as break they all do then you spend a small fortune to fix it so the window can go down and then go up the hole when you close it not go down and stay there and get wet when it's raining outside now they claim that's to save this rubber weather stripping here from getting torn when you open and close the door with the window up but really my 20 year old celica doesn't have that and the rubber is still perfectly fine and not torn and there's no leaks inside when i'm driving yes the germans are masters of over engineering if anyone is and of course the market understands the problematical natures of these cars just look at the difference in value we sold for eighty thousand one hundred ninety five dollars today eight years later you can get one for sixteen thousand nine hundred and seventy two dollars so in eight years this car has lost sixty three thousand two hundred and twenty three dollars worth of value and i don't know about you but that's a heck of a beating to take driving a car for eight years but if you enjoy riding around in fast smooth money pits go right ahead and buy one or be like my customer buy the sixteen thousand dollar one the only thing you can lose is sixteen thousand dollars then and just pray that it doesn't have any serious engine or transmission problems while you do drive it before you sell it on to the next person all right here we have over 150 000 mercedes brand new and it's had all kinds of problems now this is a v8 buy turbo all-wheel drive mercedes and it says amg on it but things are not what they seem kind of fudging things here just like my triumph motorcycle british flags but if you do a little research i go through the vin number of my british motorcycle right it was made in thailand they do a better job than the brits do but nobody does a good job at making mercedes more than the germans themselves in deutschland let's look at the door and what does it say all right it says manufactured in alabama tuscaloosa county under contract for mercedes-benz stuttgart germany so it was made in alabama now he paid over 150 grand for this car looked at in california had it shipped to the east coast here's what it started out with you notice the noise when we close the passage door turns out there was weld spatter here floppy job welding and not buffing it that it wore the paint off here and he had to argue with them and fight back and forth just to get it fixed correctly now it's got a great sound system there's no arguing that but so far three of the speakers were blown and rattling and he had to get them replaced a little bit quality lost there listen all these electronics it's certainly got electronics out of the wazoo but the most annoying things for him is this interference detection active the mirror talks to him it whistles it was not made correctly and they said they have no idea when the mirror is going to come in and be able to get one to get rid of the whistling noise is 150 000 car now that would annoy the heck out of me as you can see this car is loaded with technology it's absolutely insane the technology in his cars the led colors the speakers but then again three of the speakers are broken already paddle shifters you can do it electronically you can fiddle around with all kinds of sensors the transmission to make it no manual mode you could turn the traction control off now as we open the hood the owner pointed something out this windshield squirting fluid is always leaking out because this doesn't fit right and you may or may not believe this but he told me they said well we could put another one in but it'll do the same thing because they all do that this is not a 150 000 car mind you this isn't a hugo this is some cheap little fiat this is 150 000 car these were times so tight the plastic was cracked so they had to replace the whole front grill let's just say those boys in alabama who are building them they don't build them like they do in deutschland now the engine itself is a marvel of technology and as you can see handcrafted this is extremely complex it has a mild hybrid system which now puts out a lot of power but i'm kind of wondering hey this is a new car it's had all these problems already what's gonna happen when this thing is five six years old if that hybrid system starts breaking down did you ever take a car to the mercedes dealer and then just about scream when you see what it's gonna cost well with a hybrid you're gonna scream twice as loud no there's no arguing it's a beast it's got tremendous brakes good pirelli tires on it aerodynamic and now he could probably sell it for 20 grand more than what he paid for it maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to do that you know now he had some idling problems that they worked on but he's still not totally satisfied let's get my computer and take a look at this thing but before we do you can see it on my jack on it's getting colder here in new england came with summer tires he told me there's no option for all season tires so he had to go get winter tires for it now so hook up the scan tool at least the germans are logical here look having a nice easy place to get to fight computers with computers do intelligent diagnosis and here we go we know what it is loading the data this is a fast machine on a fast car it still takes quite some time to even go through the beginning of the system because there was so much stuff on this car all that previous stuff was just to load the information now it's doing a simple scan the machine itself knows i've got this connected because it knows there's an analytical machine aboard but the two computers talk to each other they did the preliminary one now it's doing another one there's a lot of stuff that has to be go through luckily they're all green so far now realize this vehicle only has 21 000 miles on it but here we go look at the codes transmission control module communication with the electronic ignition lock as a malfunction communication with the steering column module has a malfunction communications one or more color generation and coupling modes on line bus six as a malfunction the message is missing that's all these colors that system itself is implausible data were received from control unit radar sensors the instruction counter is not updated now the multi-function camera communication electronic ignition lock is a malfunction implausible data was received it from the head unit an incorrect signal the radar signals the eco start stop this is one of those start stop system this thing's broken down already more communication faults the communications for the telematics services has a problem the audio has a problem the instrument cluster has a problem there is a general electrical fault well good luck with all this electronics figuring out where the general electrical fault exists perhaps the most amusing part this active body control is a known recall he took it back to dealer and they said they fixed it well let's see it's got two codes they certainly did not fix it but the problem here you can see the software was supplied by continental they're not even doing their own software on this thing i've never even heard of their software so obviously it's got problems there was a recall he took it in they said they fixed it but obviously not because it's still there it's still a code there now the problem with your mercedes is they're so complex look at this we're just going into some simple things and we'll go into something like air conditioning look at all the information you have to go through the line bus just go into things that you think are simple it's kind of like following alice in wonderland down the rabbit hole things are a lot more complex than you think they are but the dealer said they fixed the problem they didn't even fix it and this is a known problem imagine when it's an unknown problem no one's ever gonna figure out how to fix these things i met a german mechanic years ago and he said scotland he says you know in deutschland they just want to make cars four years you throw them away and buy a new and he said that to me 10 years ago today it's even doubly so i believe this butt they have a thing for perfume atomizer generator you can check so basically the germans have lost their minds with technology and if you buy one of these and it breaks you may lose your mind trying to get the stupid thing fixed i mean come on they got these alabama guys putting together they're not doing such a hot job from his all the problems that had just from the get-go imagine when this thing gets to be five or six years old and it starts having serious electronic problems now i could go on and on and on but my old friend in houston here schmidty's long gone he told me over a decade ago he said scotty even i have been working on these cars for 50 years and that's all he worked on was mercedes he said i don't know 10 of how this stuff even works anymore and he had even in fancy one of my machine he had the actual mercedes star tester and he said i'm not going to go back to class with this he sold this business to another guy moved back to germany he gave up with it the owner told me he likes the car but he doesn't like all the problem it has and he said he's only going to keep it under warranty so he's probably going to go out and buy an extended warranty that goes seven years and a hundred thousand miles and then get rid of it before then now if you watch any of my videos about warranties i said they're a bunch of bunk in this case no because his tires were 3 500 bucks you can imagine when this thing goes wonkers they will have to fix it with a warranty like that and in a car with all this technology all this craziness you got to have a warranty on it let me tell you this thing is just too it's a mild hybrid on top of it so i mean you're really talking about technology up the wazoo now they used to say they build them great in deutschland solid well i kind of disagree in this case because the guy was in traffic two by five ladder fell off a truck and he hit it right it was 23 thousand dollars of damage to this car this is not built like a tank 23 grand for having a little bitty 2x5 ladder you know i had a guy the other day he came with a toyota and he had something and it was i didn't even know it was wrecked and it was fixed it wasn't that big of a deal that was twice what he paid for the entire toyota car just to fix the damage of a two by five ladder that he hit because he couldn't swerve out of the way because there were people on each side so if you want insane speed and an suv and you got 150 000 burning a hole in your pocket and you don't mind those alabama boys that are a little bit slack on their quality control i think i'll buy a house instead [Laughter] so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that bell [Music] you

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Length: 15min 16sec (916 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 16 2022