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Welcome to legit street cars and welcome to another abc hydraulic suspension, video. I definitely didn't think we'd still be here right now, but we are. The cl65 has definitely beaten my ego down to the ground because i haven't been able to entirely figure out this issue. Only half of the suspension works, but it's nothing that a good old-fashioned daily affirmation can't take care of.
So in this video i will be fixing the abc hydraulic suspension on this car, no matter what? Because because i'm good enough, i'm smart enough and doggone it people like me, i've always wanted to use that skit. It seemed most appropriate in this video and i'm a big 90s snl fan and i have been practicing this just can't do it. I've been practicing, this cool wrench finger, roll thingy that i saw in a video. It's been a week.
I got nothing it's kind of embarrassing, but anyway, with that, let's get to work on this car. We have to fix it in this video. It's got to happen. Okay, so let me give you guys just a quick recap on the suspension, if you guys want to know all about the insane one dollar o-ring, that required me to fully disassemble this engine i'll leave the playlist down below, but the engine is in good shape.
The suspension is not in good shape. In the last video i found a smoking gun, we had one of these accumulator balls fall apart and rubber went into the system, blocked up the lines, blocked up the front valve block. I cleared that all up and the car rose from its grave in the front. I thought we were good there, but we weren't the back of the car.
The rear suspension does absolutely nothing at all. Now i blew out a bunch of hydraulic lines in the last video thinking that there was still some blockage going to the rear and air would travel through the lines. And so it looked like everything's clear, but i just i mean i have this feeling that it's got to be blockaged. This entire issue still has to be some piece of rubber blocking something in the system.
So what i want to test out is rotting. These lines out so we're going to treat it like a pipe in your house and we're going to stick something in it and try to push something out of it now before we get to that, i just want to try something out. This is kind of stupid. I doubt it's going to work, but we have to get the car up a little bit higher to lift it anyway, and so i have to use the jack to raise up the rear, and what i'm going to do is i'm just going to put the rear Arms underneath level out the car in the front so that the codes for critical ride height disappear in the back and then we'll see.
If something happens, the thought is because it's coated up in the rear for critical ride height that maybe it's not activating the solenoids to work. I don't know, probably not going to fix it, but you never know. Okay, with the help of the jack, i got the arms underneath. So let's make this look more normal! That's about right! Okay, so i just cleared out the codes. Let's start it up, battery's pretty low yeah, there's nothing going on! Nothing is moving at all. It should go up higher than where it's at right now and another thing is: it doesn't say that the vehicle is rising in the cluster anymore. It used to say that when the suspension didn't work at all and as if i need any more suspension issues, it looks like this line is starting to leak. They're all tight so hopefully just needs a little bit of a titan.
I don't know, but anyway, these are the lines that we're gon na be rotting out. These two guys right here, going to the rear underneath this big plastic panel and then those are the only two lines from the front that go to the rear valve block and then from the valve block. It sends the pressure to the rear, hydraulic struts. So i think just because i want to look at them physically, probably won't be able to see anything we're going to take this plastic panel down too, and hopefully not.
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I should be able to take this off there. We go lots of dirt in here and back on the lift arm. You go and just another refresher on how the system works, because it's really not all that complicated this hose right here is connected to the back of the abc hydraulic pump. So we get pressure that goes into this relief valve and then that pressure comes out of this line. This has very low pressure. This is just the relief. So if we follow this line back, this is everything right here for the system. This line that goes right there, the one that i think is leaking is the one that brings the pressure to this t and then splits it from the front going here and the back going here, so they're kind of like separate systems.
I wouldn't imagine these would be clogged, but you never know and we got ta check. We physically have to check these. So with that, i think what i'm gon na do is start off by disconnecting these two lines, so we can try and stick something in here and feel our way back, but it is gon na be a little difficult with these bends. Okay, so i have these lines disconnected and i'm gon na disconnect these lines, one at a time as well we're gon na start with this line.
This would be the most suspect of the two, and the only abnormality i can find is this hose has like a little bulge in it. I don't know that could be nothing. It's probably nothing, but let's take this line off here and we're going to rot it out, starting at this end, because the rubber obviously would have come from the front. So i think, if we're going to be dislodging anything, we should go in the line this way, and the idea here is just that a piece of rubber is acting like a one-way valve.
So, even though we were able to blow air through the line which is very low viscosity when it gets hit with 3000 psi of fluid, if there's something jammed in there, it might kind of do one of these and block up. I don't know that's what i'm hoping for at least so anyway, let's get this line off this little line. Wrench crow's foot has been key during this project that way we're not stripping these things out, since we've been removing them. Quite often there we go once you crack them free, they spin out by hand really nicely.
So that's good. I just got back from home depot, and this is what we're going to use. This is 14 gauge wire and it is very strong, very stiff, but obviously flexible. So i know this will get in there and it's pretty strong.
So i think it would push out a piece of rubber all right, so i've snipped off a piece. That's about the length of the vehicle, or this line and i'll be very careful here, going past this rubber. We don't want to nick it or anything like that, but so far we are past this little bend, so it is working and now it's stuck and assume it's stuck somewhere in this hose right here, all right. Well, the fluid in this line is spilling all over.
The place anyway, so i'm up front, i'm gon na blow it out. Man i got ta say there can't be anything in this line seems clear to me all right. So, let's just blow out the other one while we're here. Okay rotting it from back. There is not the easiest thing in the world to do with those hoses and i don't want to risk damaging them at least right now. I don't so we're just going to do this from this end, which is all metal, and if i run into a lot of resistance, i will stop. I don't want to push anything further back i'd. Imagine if it got stuck, it would get stuck in one of these bends here, maybe, and it's going in pretty nice.
Okay, no restriction, we're probably about halfway down the line right now. I just want to see. If there's no, i don't see any remnants of anything. No black rubber, nothing all right! Let's try this one out, so i have enough here to cover the entire metal line and it'll reach past the rubber ones.
If i wanted it to, and it's a little difficult because we're not dealing with the strongest piece of wire in the world, okay, let's go back out all right, guys, i'm not having any luck at all rotting. This line out, it seems free. It feels like i'm getting it all the way to the back. I'm gon na take the rear valve block.
Out again i got ta say this gets much easier. Every time you do it. Okay, don't fall, don't fall all right, so one thing i've noticed is that we do have new fluid coming through these lines. That's obvious, it's green, but these are the two lines that connect to the valve block that lead to both rear strut and it's kind of hard to tell some of it already dripped out.
But this is old fluid and when i was messing with it in the last video, it was cold as well. This is just nasty black old fluid, which it think means that the valve block has some kind of blockage in it, not allowing the fluid to get to these two very important lines that directly feed the struts. Now i had this entire valve block apart in the last video, because i replaced all the seals for the solenoids and i looked in there and everything seemed fine. I didn't find any pieces of anything, but maybe i missed something, so i think i might have to take some of this apart again and we'll take another look.
All right. Take this clip out. Okay, yeah! I mean, i definitely don't see anything nothing's obvious. I already did this last time, but let's blow a little air in there yeah i can see the orifice inside and it's totally clear.
The fluid would definitely get to the solenoid okay i'll gently reinstall this one here. Okay, let's put this guy back there, we go. You see little guys have a spring that usually pops out when you remove them. No big deal goes back on like that totally clear.
This is where the fluid would come out of, and i can see the orifice where the fluid goes to the solenoid, and everything is clear all right, so i haven't found anything wrong with our valve block. Everything looks great, but my friend ian did hook me up with a couple of known good valve blocks. They are the same front to rear. So at this point, since i have to put a valve block in anyway, i'm just going to put in one of his so i've pulled out the solenoids to make sure that they have been rebuilt, just like i did with the other ones. So i'm gon na go ahead and pop this last one back in and then this is going back in the car. I did a little bit more rotting out. I can't find anything in these lines check this out. They sound totally clear so the way i look at it is we know we have the proper 3000 ish psi going to the tee that splits, the pressure between the front and the rear.
The front works. The front works fine. Now it's just the rear that doesn't work. This line, and this line both seem clear, we're going to try a new valve block, so that should eliminate the off chance that there is something really small in there or something odd going on with the valve block, and i've also blown air through these and opened Up the bleeders and they're clear up to that point, i guess it's possible that they're clogged all the way at the strut, but i got ta imagine that if anything went through this system it would have blocked up in the valve block.
First, there are screens on everything and they're perfectly clean. If the known good valve block doesn't fix the issue, then i will go down the route of something electrical that is possible, although i can activate these solenoids with a computer which i've obviously done, and i can hear them moving, but nothing's working. So i don't know but uh i don't put anything past this car at this point, so we're just going to keep trucking get the valve block in and well hope it works and then move on to the laptop all right. Take a look at the bleeder right.
There we'll blow some air through it all right, that's clear and, as you can tell, that is old nasty fluid. So nothing is getting past that valve block, including i'd. Imagine any debris all right. The new but rebuilt used valve block is back in and i can see why this line was probably leaking.
There's a lot of crud build up there, so i'm going to go ahead and clean that up and you want to be gentle if you're going to clean up these mating surfaces, because you really only get one shot at this we'd have to replace either that entire Line running to the back, or this shorter line running to the relief valve, if we gouge this so just going to be very gentle with the wire brush and i'll get in here as well, just doing this all by hand. Okay, everything is back together, including the little clamps that hold the lines together as you go down i'll leave the big plastic shield off because, honestly, i just want to get to starting the car and seeing if we fixed anything okay. So i have the rear sitting low enough to where we'd still feel it raise up if it's going to, but not low enough to where it would set off that critical ride, height code, which could disable the system. So anyway, let's go fire it up. Okay, so the laptop is disconnected right now: okay, whatever i heard the hydraulic pressure there, that's normal. Oh okay heard it again: let's get rid of these warnings here. Is it going to tell us this thing is going up or down no, and i don't feel anything going on right now either. Oh wait a minute.
I just felt something that could have been in the front, though. Let's go check the fluid uh. We still have a leak, no got ta, try and fix that right now. Wait a minute guys.
So i was just about to raise the car to check out that leak and check this out. The back is staying up. The back has never stayed up the back of my cl65. Is it's not slammed it's it's lifted, oh my gosh.
This is crazy. Could the valve block have done it? What what could it have been? It had to have been the valve block. At this point, i rotted out those lines i didn't feel anything at all and even though i took apart the valve block a second time, it didn't see anything. Maybe just maybe there's something in there.
I don't know, but if i can't figure out the smoking gun, we are cutting that thing apart. If not in this episode, definitely in the next one we got ta find what's wrong with it. But yes, yes, i've never been so happy to see this much wheel. Gap and salt falling.
This is salt from february, by the way guys it is now november - and this is all from the 12-hour road trip back in february from kansas to chicago look at all this stuff. It's horrible! You better believe if this thing makes it outside. It's going to legit street quarters for a complete detail. I'm going to treat it right, but right now, i'm just i'm a little excited, i'm a little excited so anyway, we have to fix this leak.
I swear if this line is damaged to the point where i have to order one from germany for like three weeks, i'm gon na flip out, because the project of this theme has basically been hurry up and wait for parts. So, okay, let's go take a look at the leak okay. So it's definitely coming from this line. This connection right here, which i did clean up and it is tight.
This is so frustrating okay. Normally i don't recommend over tightening anything. These guys don't really need all that much to seal, but we're gon na give it one more for the kids here i mean it's tight. I couldn't imagine it needing to be tighter than this.
Okay, all right, let's see, i don't think that's gon na do anything. Stay up stay up, wow. That is crazy. It's crazy! This car is even capable of this kind of ride height.
This is nuts, but anyway, let's get these lift arms out of the way that way. If it wants to lower to a normal level, it can the lift arms, aren't gon na, be there to block it, and i got ta say this feels good. I haven't been able to easily remove the lift arms from underneath this car in many many months. All right: let's go ahead and fire it up. There's our puddle! Well, let's see, is it gon na leak? It's definitely not as bad as it was before. Before it was dripping out, you could watch it the whole time hey. Let me clean this up. A little all right there we go and yeah that little titan up there might have done it.
I don't see anything coming out right now. Oh man, more good news. I feel, like i've, had too much good news in the last few minutes here on this car. Like something's got to break right, i mean, or the suspension doesn't actually go up and down.
I don't know uh, but at this point let's try hitting the button okay, so we actually have an abc drive carefully light on, so that button shouldn't do anything. What this indicates right now is that the car has gone into a default mode where it just raises the entire suspension, so you're not rubbing on anything that way, you can make it home safely. So let's go ahead and check the fluid. That is the first thing we need to do just in case we introduce some air into the system.
It might not have any pressure any longer after that initial kind of pump up. So let's take a look and i'm too excited to go, get the tripod. So i'm going to hold the camera. Do this with one hand? I threw another quart in here because it was pretty dry, so yeah we have the proper amount of fluid.
That is good. Now, let's check out the codes in the system, i'm hoping that it says low pressure. That means we just have to pressurize the tank. Yes, some pressure low, current stored um hang on.
Let's just check pressure live data 43 psi. Yes, we just got to pressurize the tank, that's it okay! So if you guys have been around for the last few suspension videos, then you know what i'm about to do here. We have to inject a little bit of air pressure into the reservoir and that's gon na force the fluid uh into the pump and kind of blow out any air bubbles. It might be air bound right now, so you don't want to do this too much, because you can blow this tank up, which would not be fun.
So at some point this fluid should go down and we'll probably have to add another quart. Okay, so we're at 100 psi now this thing is going to die. I don't care and we need 3 000 psi. So i'm just going to watch this live data and it should go up.
It's stuck at 101. Come on now. Sometimes you got to rev it up a little. These v12 sounds so good can't wait to drive it there.
We go 1016. 130. 145. 159.
Okay, now i'm not doing anything 188! It's going up. Let's rev it up a little bit more 200.. Okay, let's check the fluid in case it went down nope. We have not gotten the air bubble out, we're at 300 psi now 330 348 i'll bring you guys in on the pressure you've been with me. This far we're at 1100. come on baby. We need 3. 000., we're halfway there all right, we're at 1800 2000 we're getting there we're getting there we're getting there all right.
28. 2900. That is perfect. Let's clear the codes out clear, yes, shut.
The ignition off for 10 seconds. Is this gon na work? Is this gon na work? I think so. I think this is finally it okay we'll go ahead and turn ignition back on at seven percent on the laptop here. We're gon na make it no fault codes.
No fault codes detected we've been here before, but this might be a little different. Let's go ahead and start it back up. Looking for this guy to to go down no light on in the dash. Let's check pressure again, we should have had a burp.
Oh, we did, we did have a burp, we did have a burp look at that. It's empty cool, that's great! Okay! Uh! Let's fill it up quickly, though, outside of a brand new car with abc suspension. I think this car has just about the cleanest fluid in the world, part store they're 28, each, which is not fun. I bought two of them this morning.
It's all worth it right right. All these euro cards that we spend all of our money on totally totally worth it. Do you guys ever question why you do this? I do every once in a while, but then i just take one of these cars out on the highway mash the throttle and it all kind of just melts away. I'm really hoping we'll be doing that soon.
Oh, this car is so dirty, so full of oil uh pressure. Where are we at 2800? Okay, this system should definitely work now, uh. Oh, we got to back out. We got to back out of the system, that's right, so you can't actually be in the control unit.
If you want to use the button inside so now, we're out, and let's see, okay i'll just turn it off, disconnect the multiplexer and, let's just fire it up again. Okay, you know what let's do this: let's put it in gear. Oh all right hold on a second: it went higher. Yeah definitely went higher there.
Uh did this thing default to its highest position again. Why go down go down yeah? It looks like it's defaulted to the high position again and it won't tell me in the cluster that it's going up or down, but there's no warning light. So, let's get back to the computer all right, let's see if we have any codes, no codes, all right. Let's go into active tests, let's just start a rodeo and let's see this thing, dance.
Yes, okay, f3. There we go. We still have good pressure and let's watch this car do its thing wow, what a difference from before! In the last video it sort of looked like it was doing a proper rodeo, but it was actually just the front and now, if you go to the rear, you can tell the difference. The rear is actually working.
The rear is working, it's doing a legitimate rodeo. So i'm going to let this do its thing for a little while and then we'll check the fluid level make sure we got all the air bubbles out of it. But this is kind of a neat party trick that this car does. My kids were very fascinated. The first time they saw a rodeo, and now i own a car that will rodeo all right. So fluid level is good. Let's go ahead and stop the rodeo should go back to somewhat of a normal ride. Height now - and it kind of does - looks a little jacked up in the back lowered in the front and, let's see if it said any codes during the rodeo, i think it would have booted us out if it did no codes.
All right. Let's back out of the system, let's take this thing outside all right, so the car defaulted back to the super high position and when i press this we don't get any notification in the cluster so weird when the system didn't work at all like two videos ago. It would always still tell us that it was going up, even though it was doing nothing now that the system kind of works, it doesn't say anything in the cluster. That's so weird anyway.
Let's back this guy out of here, you know what let's just go for a ride right now with it super jacked up, oh wow, it's so nice that it's not rubbing in the back anymore. It's freezing, though oh one touch, doesn't work all right and we're driving the car. It's pretty bouncy. Oh, it's got a lot of torque, i'm just going to press the button down lower.
Do something ah abc car too low. That's when i hit the lower button. Weird. Let's take a look at it, it doesn't look low to me, it looks totally jacked up.
Did something happen with these sensors? Oh, this is bizarre. It's doing absolutely nothing all right, so i turned the ignition on and off and it still does nothing, but we have no messages now. If you guys remember in the very first video that i bought this car, this does have some kind of aftermarket lowering module, but it never did anything me and watch jr. Go could never actually get this thing to do anything it didn't matter if it was unplugged plugged in nothing uh.
The suspension still worked just like factory, which it's not doing anymore. Okay, so the car is sitting pretty level right now. I think it's still higher than it should be, though, and if we take a look at the level sensors they're, all very close to each other, so this doesn't indicate an issue to me right now. Let's check out the voltage yeah.
This is good. This is good. It's all within spec, everything's, good, all right. Let's go to control unit adaptations calibration of plunger sensors.
Okay. So when i hit f3 the front end should go super high. Well, it moved successfully carried out, okay, good all right. So we got that and i hear the car doing something all right: let's try this load adjustment next, okay, load adjustment.
F3. Please wait, don't really see anything on the car during the load adjustment. Let's just hope it succeeds. Okay, successfully carried out good, let's check out codes, nothing all right, let's back out of the system! Well, first off it says no messages, but when i press the suspension button uh just did it oh, not check we'll get out of here. It just did it and it even raised and lowered by itself. Yeah like it's going down right now show the people it worked. That's why you should always have the camera rolling all right, whatever, let's back it out and see what it looks like it kind of looks a little bit higher than i would imagine. But it's been so long since i've seen a normal one of these and we don't have any of the fender liners in the front.
So there's just a little bit more room behind it. It looks a little bit more lifted, but this looks pretty darn close. Okay. I just pressed the raise button.
Is it going up? No just press the lower, it's not doing anything it's the next day and after thinking about this, this just seems like the control unit is freaking out to me. Nothing is happening in the cluster. When i press the button - and i'm not going to be able to give you guys a normal legit streetcars fashion explanation for this, but what i did is something we call a circuit, 30 reset and it's a very basic procedure: you're literally just unplugging a control module. This is a little different than just simply disconnecting the battery, because some of these control modules have capacitors inside and they'll hold memory for a little while and with everything this car has been through and seeing as how the button on the inside doesn't do really anything.
It doesn't show anything in the cluster. I just feel like the control unit is freaking out. I know that's like a horrible technical explanation, but just being in the car business for so long. This is something people actually do even at the dealership.
If you have a situation where there are no codes, everything seems to be working. Fine, it should work, and it's kind of rare - for control modules to fail. You unplug it you let it just completely wipe its memory clean and then plug it in so it was getting late last night, so i just left it overnight. I've just plugged it back in oh - and this is the old school rentec lowering module that this car came with.
So there's a little controller in the ashtray. It doesn't seem to work at all, but here is where they spliced, that into the wiring going to the abc hydraulic control unit, which is that guy right there. So anyway, i just put the cover back on we're going to shut the hood and, let's just go for a ride all right before we take off. I want to see if pressing this button does anything in the cluster.
It did it once off camera and then it never did it again. So we have some warning lights: okay, whatever all right here we go suit, it hey there, it is there. It is when it did it before. Oh, that was quick, but okay, i wasn't paying attention if it actually lifted the car or not. I think it's going. I hear stuff anyway, let's lower it, okay impossible for you guys to tell. I did feel something, though i felt something you guys have been around for a while. You know that's my old chevy volt.
I sold it to a family member. Oh you, don't know how good this feels all right. Let's see, will it work again? Yes, it says it's going up sweet if you guys watch the road trip home video from kansas. I still have this issue where every once in a while, nothing does anything at all.
Doesn't work it's a little loose. It's probably a bad wire by the door hinge or sometimes the control unit goes bad or maybe it needs a circuit 30 reset that fixes everything right guys. I am driving this. I am driving this on a major road and it feels so good.
It's not bouncy at all, i can tell the suspension is working, each strut has fluid, and this is great. Smooth is glass too. Car wizard did the engine mounts and i believe the trans mounts before car track and surprisingly they're still in good shape and not broken. After all that all right coming up to another light, let us activate yes, this is great guys.
This is an amazing sign and i can feel it going up. Let's see i'll hit it down, you guys can't see this on camera, but i can feel it it's going down. It's going up and down the suspension on my cl65 amg is going up and it's going down and someone is honking at me. I am one of those annoying vloggers right now.
I guess i don't care, i just don't care. This thing works, it's working. It doesn't leak, there are no codes at all, there's no lights on the dash other than some light bulbs and the washer fluid, and the distronic plus adaptive cruise control doesn't work, but that's not bad three lights on a cl65, that's basically like negative 10 lights. Now i can't beat on the car or anything it's not tuned.
We have the larger turbos larger fuel injectors, but the computer has adjusted beautifully. Oh and here's that rentec module i've disconnected it. It literally does nothing. Let's take a look at the cars ride height right now, so this is in the lowered position and i got ta say it looks really normal.
It looks super even keep in mind. I don't have the fender liners in here. So in the front it might look a little bit higher because there's no black plastic directly behind it, and this looks pretty normal in the back as well yeah. I did rub on the tire a little bit during our last test drive when i got frustrated and just wanted to drive the car, but nothing too bad didn't damage anything permanently.
I'm in the car, i'm gon na press the button up and you can see the car rising i'll, go ahead and press it down now and it goes down. Can we just take a moment to talk? Well, we can't talk right now, but can we take a moment to think about how much aggravation has gone into just that, just that little bit of movement has caused? I mean i, i don't even want to count how many hours i have into this thinking about this too. That counts when you're up late at night. What's wrong with my car talking with your friends just a lot of mental efforts getting caught here in a windstorm and it's freezing out, so i'm gon na end this soon, but i'm pretty sure this is normal ride height for a cl65. It does look a little bit lifted. I think it could look much better than this, but all the sensors are reading properly. Now the car does have adjustable links all the way around. So someone put those on but they're adjusted to the stock length, and i think we can do some more adjustments with the computer as well, but that is all for another day.
I am so happy, i'm beyond happy. You don't know how this makes me feel. I'm just gon na go home and and pile the entire family in the car and take them out to the nicest restaurants i can find to celebrate. Oh wait, no i'm not! The cl is a four-seater.
I can't fit them. I have too many kids. I can't fit them all in here, and this is turned in to basically a storage unit. That's our extra car seat.
None of my kids have been in here yet there's stuff, literally everywhere the trunk as well. We have a cool air intake system from vrp for the next video, so i think in the next v12 video we'll do the intake, maybe we'll lower the car. I got to put a bunch of panels on. We have to clean this car up.
It's full of oily stuff all over the place and we're gon na make it look good. We might make it sound good, maybe i'll get it on the dyno. I don't know, but i can finally move on the repair. Part of the series is done.
Hang on. I'm definitely knocking on wood. After saying that, i might have just jinxed myself. I definitely jinx myself.
I'm gon na go run around this entire forest and knock on every single tree, so this car doesn't break, but we should be done with the mechanical repairs on this car. The oil leaks fixed the suspension works. We can move on to the performance part of this series, i think again, knocking anyway uh with that guys. I really hope you enjoyed this video.
I hope you've enjoyed this series if you've been watching these for the entire time, and you ever run into an issue with your car, or maybe your friends pulling their hair out just send them this series. It will definitely make them feel a whole lot better. That they're, not in my shoes, except i'm out of my shoes now, which is great anyway rambling. I hope you enjoyed this one, give it a thumbs up share the video subscribe if you're new, most importantly, have a great day i'll catch you all in the next video foreign.
Cl’s sit high, get lowering links and it will look and actually handle better. I love my cl for road trips!
Congrats, Alex! Have watched every minute, and I’m so impressed by your professionalism and patience…glad to see you stay with a very discouraging task and solve it through hard work…you are inspiring to others!
Bravo Alex. I Have been thinking about this the whole week. I Would have probably just given up on this car by now. Thank you for taking us on this incredible ( Frustrating?) journey with you. From a appreciative fan and longtime subscriber in South Africa.
Now I appreciate why my MB salesman recommends I pass on the air suspension option. Too much brain damage!
I feel your pain Alex. I've been trying to figure out my W202 C280's pneumatic door locks and rear headrest convenience feature. Also my engine immobiliser decided to stop working a few weeks ago.
So I don't have one of these … yet… but I think it automatically lowers itself a little bit at high speeds from the stock ride height.
This Cl Mercedes has been a high of highs and the low of lows! To finally watch you Alex! It's now Victory! YEPPIE!😉 And you brought us along!
Congrats! The CL65 kicked you hard in the you know whats but you kept with it. Now please get that salt off the undercarriage.
You could have very easily avoided this issue by OPENING THOSE BLEED NIPPLES!! WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY ARE FOR? My w116 has similar suspension at the rear!! There was no need to use external air pressure to bleed this system. The bleed nipples are there to remove trapped air from the system.
I always knew you’d complete. Not just because your a master tech. Rather it’s because of your perseverance. LoL. Really super classy old school version of futuristic MB.
Great work Alex! Who knows what blockages exist hidden in the dark… only the valve block knows muahahah :))
Well done great perseverance 👍 as a mechanic myself there is no better feeling when you get it to work.
This car would be more usable and more maintenance friendly if it just had some sort of big ass bolts or nuts to manually and individually crank up and down the suspension. Horrendously complicated.
Amazing, finally. This car was the toughest so far on the channel….but it kept us viewers on our toes awaiting the next episode.
Congrats on getting it done. I breathed a huge sigh of relief with you when you realised it v worked. Yeeeeaaaahhh. Lloyd
Wait, don't get this. You're a pro. You had a problem with the rear, across the axle. There's a hydraulic block for the rear actuators. You had several known to work but didn't decide to swap it out earlier to eliminate this single failure? I give respect to your skills but unless this was perhaps calculated for reasons of content, not sure the rest of the journey was worth it for you. Or maybe it was after all!
One of the best parts of this video is your Vessi shoe advert. As a detailer these are fantastic and are so comfortable they fit like a sock. It’s so cool they’ve come on board with you Alex. Plus, they ship to Australia and cost less than water proof heavy hiking boots landed here. If you’re a detailer DON’T buy anything else. Once you wear Vessi on a even just a wash, you’ll never wear anything else. Lloyd
Congratulations Alex. All sweats & tears paid off. Touchwood.
Keep it up. Bet you'd be straight pipe em exhaust & let em V12 biturbo sing. Please oh please 🙏🏼