Great job on explaining the procedure step by step and in every detail. I liked your heads up about the difficulty of unplugging sensors, very difficult, but done! Thanks! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I just finished doing this and would like to add a few suggestions. First I took the air intake to the air box completely off. It just snaps off the air box and gives you more room. Second thing are those clips which I believe are part of the EVAP. I really struggled trying to get them off to no avail. Almost gave up. Then I warmed them using a blow dryer making the plastic a little more plyable. Sure enough, once heated, they popped right off. I put a small amount of silicone grease on those o rings so it might help next time with getting them off.
yes it does. The one in the video and 2 cabin air filters. 1 is under the glove compartment and the other is in the engine bay next to the positive battery terminal. Both are pretty easy to get to. This one is the hardest of the 3.
It is very unfortunate to see a manufacturer making servicing a car so difficult. Stupid stupid design. What a shame. The dealers charge ridiculous prices to do a simple thing as replacing filters. Next time i will go with toyota or honda.
Completely concur. I just helped a friend with this process and was stunned at the air box's overly complicated design. My belief is that Mercedes has plenty of engineering prowess such that the design seems to be intentionally obfuscated and overly complicated to dissuade owners from performing what should be an 'easy' maintenance task themselves. Talk about bad-faith German Engineering!
