MikeT

It's got to be a head gasket slowly letting go, if there is no sign of a leak under the car.

Won't be sold here, and even if it was offered here, they'd sell a handful. Not much car for a truckload of money. I think what was a cool idea in 1998 is a far less cool idea nearly 30 years later.

Photo of Snowball celebrating its 200K km with a CEL.

Yeah I've seen that happen to an Ioniq5 in BC. A ding in the floor causing warranty to be cancelled and a writeoff. Luckily for me, M-B PHEVs have their batteries above the rear drive axle.

I changed the RF wheel bearing for Julia on Sunday. Wow was the old one noisy! Then today it threw another CEL. She checked the code: P0302. Car has just hit 200,000 km.

Nyuk nyuk nyuk

SAM N-11-3 connector, probably heat damaged. Needs external relay for the electric fuel lift pump (and low beams on the same plug).

Don't forget this one: https://peugeot-canada.ca/

Congrats on the new car. I'll be hoping to see it on Spritmonitor. Here's mine on Spritmonitor: https://www.spritmonitor.de/en/detail/1645350.html

I got my fill of roadster driving in 2005 in France and that was more than enough for me. The blown engine repair suggests there is a world of hurt waiting for the new owner.

Fuel lift pump = the in-tank pump that supplies fuel to the high pressure pump driven by the camshaft. The N11-3 plug has its feed running through it and any heat damage on that pin (or the low beam pins) means you need to install external relays in those circuits before the circuit goes completely dead. The two melted ones in the centre are the low beams and the one third from the right is the fuel lift pump. I replaced this connector. This is the SAM that was changed and I have in reserve now, with a melted fuel lift pump pin on the N11-3 connector. This is the second SAM, where the two low beam circuit pins show heat damage. This one was recoverable and a new brown plug took care of the problem, combined with the mounting of external relays for the low beam circuits in order to take the amperage out of the SAM.

Remember the One Tonne Challenge? The GLC 350e has been good for a lot more than one!

I should also add that it's very quiet and comfortable, the heated and ventilated seats are great, the leather is nice, the huge sunroof is fabulous, the rear air suspension (self-levelling) is cool for off-roading due to the height setting being adjustable. Not that we've gone off-road yet....our passengers also like the comfortable heated rear seats.

Just over a year later, 13 months more or less into the ownership of this car, here is the updated lifetime fuel and energy consumption. The total amount of fuel we've burnt over 23K km is 278 litres. I've not had to pay one cent out of pocket for fuel thanks to credit card points (!). The 5 MW of electricity used cost $700. The annual service was not even too bad at $550. Our previous B200 would have used 1715 litres for that distance, damn near $4000. The smart BRABUS Canada 1 would have used 975 litres for that distance, or $2000. So nearly twice as much for the same distance as the GLC350e. The only downer is the cost of the buying the new car.

Yeah but the unions still leak. Have to redo lines again....

These are the best smarts in Canada, so buy this one.

Go to the dealer. They're not even that expensive there.

Changed the oil, filter and air filter for Julia's Canada 1 today.

#2 - if it's brown, flush it down. (sorry not sorry)

*daughter's

My daughters smart, the Canada 1 BRABUS, was in a collision in 2020 when my son was driving and the left side headlight was damaged and replaced with a used one from a wrecked 2005 smart that had been in the sun for too long (crazed yellowed lens). So not long after she got the car and it was being stored outside as it is now, the light began to leak in the rain. We had spare minty lenses and today we changed it. The shocking thing is that four of the 7 plastic clips that hold the lens on - the ones on the top of the car - had basically turned to microplastic dust and there was no recovering them. So: what to do? Answer: make my own clips out of thick wire. The rubber gasket was coated lightly with clear silicone and the lens was temporarily clamped to the tight position and then wire was tied over the lens clips and then they were tied tight and the vice-grips released. After wiring, the lens-to-housing gap was filled with clear silicone too. The end result was satisfactory:

I've got a German language service manual book.

Woah, lourd! J'ai eu la même problème avec une Peugeot 405 en 2009: jet d'antigel un fois une bougie démonté. Quand même, la voiture avait 366.000 km.... donc pas de déception. Bon boulot donc.

Check the N-111-3 connector on the SAM. If one or more of the pins show heat damage, the car needs external relays mounted.

The connector in the valence panel is an Amphenol type. If your car is a 2006, it has the block heater fitted to the transaxle. If it's a 2005, there is no block heater (but the connector is there).