W123, Factory Books and Manuals

For a couple of years I've seen your notice about the weak Behr radiator neck and the suggestion to fix it with your repair kit. But it would never happen to me, right?

Last week I found what I thought was a loose clamp on the neck of the radiator. When tightening the screw the hose came off in my hand taking off the first inch or so of the neck with it! Digging out the small end the neck from the inside of the hose I ordered the repair kit from you and made a very successful repair.

Thanks for coming up with that kit-you saved me mucho bucks and aggravation I don't need.

Despite replacing the windshield and rear window seals, the door window seals and the sunroof seals, water still puddles on the floor of the front passenger compartment. I have looked at the drains under the hood hinges. They seem to be clogged but I can't get a wire very far into them and it seems impossible to blow them out with compressed air. Where do they exit? Can one clean them from the underside? The repair manual on CD I got from Mercedes is no help. A lot of the information (visuals)on that CD is very bad quality. Where else should I look for possible water entrance points?

My problem has been coming on slowly, it seems whenever starting the car hot or cold i have to depress the accelerator pedal once before turning the key and it will start no problem, use to not have to do that. now that it is getting colder outside after doing this procedure on the first start of the day the engine seems to have a low rough idle and sometimes have to hold the accelerator with slight pressure to keep the car from stalling, also some of the time the idle will slowly surge a few times, once the coolant temp gauge starts to rise the problem will go away.