On his YouTube channel, German Enrico Tetzlaff tells how he was cheated by the speedometer in a 13-year-old Mercedes E-Class.
Enrico Tetzlaff thought he had got his hands on a 13-year-old Mercedes E-Class of the W212 generation with an okay mileage. He thought.
For now it turns out that the car, which he paid 7,500 euros, corresponding to 56,000 kroner, has a little more than just under 230,000 kilometres. Far, far more.
Shortly after purchase, the gearbox started making noise. Therefore, the car was sent to a Mercedes workshop in the town of Zwittau.
And here an unpleasant truth spilled out of the trip computer, which has not been able to cheat Mercedes' own software. The car's internal memory reveals a mileage of no less than 1,609,343.
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A further review of the car revealed many more faults which are not immediately visible on the car with the naked eye. The particulate filter is broken, the differential needs to be replaced, and the exhaust is more than full of soot.
Not damage you would expect to find on a Mercedes with 250,000 kilometers on the odometer. Not even if it is almost 14 years old. Nor according to Mercedes itself.
If you go through the car extra carefully, it reveals badly repaired damage and assistance systems that have gone off.
But in a comment on the video about the car that Enrico Tetzlaff has posted on YouTube, a viewer comes up with an interesting insight. Mercedes has put a small electronic trap in the car.
The mechanism, which acts as a kind of protection against odometers that have just been rolled back, will automatically show 1.6 million kilometers if you try to manipulate it, it says.
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