DETAILED W166 Mercedes Benz ML350 Complete Dash removal and Heater Core Replacement | How To 

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very impressive operation. kudos. helpful to the merc benz DIY community. I recently replaced and troubleshot a ml350 163 A/C system, the center blend door flap was clicking and rotating endlessly, and linkage was broken on right blend door. Upper dash had to be removed. Your procedure dwarfs that operation. Well done.

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I was fortunate in 2009 to pickup my E320 Bluetec at the factory near Stuttgart. The perk included a factory tour. We were loaded on a golf cart at the delivery center and driven to an entrance of one of the factories, that seemed like a couple miles from the delivery center. Hardly any people worked in the factory of robots, those that did were on the catwalks with binoculars watching the robots. at one point in the tour, we were on catwalks over the assembly line below us, which was putting the dashes in cars. it was fairly early in the interior process that a robot came in from the drivers side with a dash and popped it in the car, maybe 10 second and it was out. The dash assembly I’m sure was done in a separate factory because it was ready to go in the car at this point, there were a few humans plugging things up ahead of and behind the robot at that location as the dash and other items were put in by the robots. I remember the doors and windshield was not yet in the car. Mercedes took a lot of heat for getting rid of all the people that worked in that factory and replacing them with robots, that was one of the big storylines, but the robots won. Quite an interesting place. Never seen anything like it. The last stations were measuring and testing tolerances on all the cars components, absolutely every crack and every line and everything in the car had a tolerance and measurement machines were checking, a human and machine were even testing the paint on the car. Only when a robots machine failed something was a human called in to retest. If a car failed any of the testing at that point it was shot a side on a different assembly line for corrections. Ps. 5500 people sticks in my mind. They told us (about 10 on the tour) how many people worked in the factory before converting it to robots and I believe the number was 5500. Of course that would be all shifts. Lawsuits and fighting took Mercedes about 5 years to win the automation war, that involved many factories all over the world. YES, final inspection many machines measure everything imaginable and there is a lot of humans interaction at that point. For example. The limits on the power seats are measured in every limit, Mercedes has a tolerance for each movement and it’s less than the eye can see; if it’s out of tolerance it’s fixed then or put on a resolution line if it can’t be fixed. The time it takes the trunk to shut and open is measured; every internal and external space is measured and check and must be within a tolerance. The assembly line robots can catch some things, but not like the human eye can, especially of the final product. Mercedes recognized this was a weakness robots introduced and designed the inspection process to correct such problems. I wonder what will happen to the income tax revenue loss when robots replace people? Could we get to a point where all that revenue drys up because people aren’t working to pay in to the system? I think about things like that. Hahah

Heater core got plugged up because the Silica slow release anti corro6pack came apart. You also need to replace bottle to get 100k out of coolant and bottle potentially or replace coolant now at 50k if not new bottle

Thank you for the video that makes me have more confidence replacing the core by my self, but how to tell the core is leaking what type tool or gauges you using for the pressure? thank you

Hi, excellent video! Thanks so much. would this be similar to my 2011 E-350?

Hi, Many thanks for the video. I have a problem with my 2013 ML 250 w166. Couple of years ago, there was a rattling noise in compressor during idle and when vacuumed at Merc dealer, it had less gas and no oil. So they added the specified quantity( I don't know how much exactly) and it was working fine. The noise was there anyway. The cooling was totally great. Annoyed by the noise, I went ahead and changed the compressor and receiver dryer alone at an independent garage. Then the rattling noise from compressor was gone. Fast forward two years, the aircon wouldn't cool for the first 10 minutes from the cold start of engine. But when the vehicle was at operating temperature, the system began cooling well. I then went to a generalist ac recharge person and checked by vacuuming. It had about 300 gms of gas and 45 ml of oil when vacuumed in the machine. Since, the ac guy had no clue of how much gas was required. I searched online and found that the ML 250 needed 1050g of gas and 120 ml of oil which he refilled. 1 month into it, I now have the same rattling cluncking noise from compressor. Finally, went to a reputed ac mechanic and then again vaccuummed it and found the gas level was about 967g and 45 ml of oil. But this time the oil was grayish with some metal emery. The high pressure was fine. The low pressure readings were inconsistent. I think I made a mistake by asking him to fill 120 ml of oil when the recovery was only 45 ml. I didn't k ow that rest of the system had oil too. Did I overfill oil? What should I do now? Should I replace the compressor,Condenser and received dryer alone? Or should I replace the evaporator core as well? To ensure that the system doesn't fail again. I am early confused about how best to sort this. Looking forward to your advise. Many thanks

nice video!! what is part you are removing at time 7:31? its the little chip with a cable. Do you know what its for?

Another question, how can I clean the air conditioning evaporator? On a ML400 w166, it has a musty smell, I replaced the cabin air filters but the smell is still there.

Hi I have Mercedes cla 200 14 plate when I’m I sport mode say at 70mph when ease of the pedal the rpm jumps right down an jurks the car like it’s in wrong gear so when braking and bringing car to a stop it’s harsh down shift in gears any ideas

Hi , I have 2014 GL 450 , the heat is so low special on hi speed 60mph right side no heat at all , any sugestions? any recomanditions i,m in NYC. Thank you.

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Awesome video. What would you estimate total time?

Hello, I have a 2014 Gl350 flushed the heater core, and it blows heat drivers side but no heat on pass side I did heater core it isn’t clogged no actuator issues present or anything what should I check?

Hi, I have an ML400 2015, the glove box vent is not working, It doesn't matter if I turn On or Off the knob inside the glove box or change any settings on the controls, what do you suggest me to check? Thanks in advance.

How many hours did it take? How much would you charge?

Hey I would like to change my dash board on mine I would like to pay you to do it how much would u charge

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How much do you think such a job would cost in Service?

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