teamSPB Project Big Pimpin - Mercedes CLS

[Heisenberg]

Always had a soft spot for CLS's
Lovely car man

[teamSPB]

Thats a BIG package!!

[TeckniX]

Updates on the big package received????

[teamSPB]

Sorry for not updating in such a long time!

Inside the packaging was this...





The car actually hasnt been with me since around February/March time hence the lack of updates.

Lets go back to Feb time. I was driving on the motorway when the dash started beeping at me telling me I had a loss of brakes and to pull over, obviously freaked out at this, I immediately pulled into the hard shoulder and slammed the brake pedal as per instructed on the dash. The car had already selected a lower gear to help engine brake the car! Truely impressed! I switched the car off and then on again and it was perfect! No warning light and brakes were perfect! Strange I thought, but as I was in the middle of no where, I proceeded the journey with care and the car never had a problem ever since.

Once I was back home, I booked the car in with Mercedes to diagnose the problem with the brakes and although the problem was a one off occurrence, fault codes were logged in the ECU and indicated the SBC pump was on its way out. Mercedes performed the necessary check on the SBC pump and it was reaching the end of its service life...this is when things were looking harsh on the wallet!

Mercedes actually recalled these units and covered them under warranty as they were prone to going wrong. There was also a recall to provide a solution for another problem with the pump which my car had already been for some time in its past. However, due to my car having non-original brakes, they would not cover me for the part or the labour required to change this part although many people have been able to get their units changed FOC.
The price of the bill would be around £2000.

Obviously not happy with this, I pulled a few strings and got Mercedes to email the headoffice in Germany and told them that its a recall and despite the brakes being non original, they were still off the same Mercedes but just happened to be AMG versions. In the end, they gave me a 50% discount off the total bill which I was more than happy to pay

The car was left with Mercedes with employees taking lots of pics and generally loving the car lol! It came to the date when the car was booked in for fitting, had a call from the technician 'sorry sir, we are showing 1 SBC pump on the shelf but it has gone missing so we will have to order you another one'....great! NOT! So we had to wait 7-days for it to turn up from Germany, and then find another slot to book me in!

Finally the car went in and the brakes felt great!
Some pics we found of the car up on instagram and facebook etc!




Luckily a friend of mine was working on the station next to where the CLS was so he was keeping an eye on it!

While the car was away, we changed a few other bits - Lambda sensor, glow plugs and a few other little bits. Big thanks to Sanj for sorting these!!

Check the state of the old glow plugs!


A sneak peak on the front bumper...


And the new logos we recently had made up




With that, the car was packed up and sent to the bodyshop!

[xXp_ExoTiic_qXx]

Nice, now show us how the car looks like at the moment, with the bumpers on !

[teamSPB]

It's back!

[P78]

[TruTaing]

ooohhhh. Prior designs kit?!?! Stoked to see the update!

[teamSPB]

ooohhhh. Prior designs kit?!?! Stoked to see the update!

Yeah its a PD kit…would NEVER recommend them….EVER!

[TruTaing]

DOH. What happened? Were they really hard to work with? Fitment issues?

[teamSPB]

Another update….in preparation for MIVW, we thought we would throw out some more pics for you all...

Everyone following us on instagram (add us on teamspb) and Facebook would have seen these pictures already…but for those who haven't…here you go...

Some of you may have heard the rumours…new wheels were on the way….yes they were! But in the guise of Vossen CV7 10.5"x20 for the fronts to!



A quick reflection shot of the paint…




And finally, a better shot of the new front wheel setup


Stay tuned tomorrow for MIVW prep pics!

[teamSPB]

And its as ready as its gonna be for MIVW!!!

[SnazzyQ]

Damn this thing is mean as shit

I love it.

[R2dmax]

THis is SICK!! Truly loving it top to bottom. the new front wheel set up looks soo much better wiith more concave

[Kaiyin]

always liked the CLS, and the Focus RS is just cool, and the system in that Previa looks bonkers.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but Am_Singh?