Category: Mercedes G-Class Forum

Hello, I’ve been looking for a Mercedes G 300 TD for a long time, but unfortunately this is more difficult than I imagined. It’s impossible to get a 5-door with the engine and the equipment and at an acceptable price. Now I have become friends with buying a 270 CDI or 400 CDI. Since you read many horror stories in the forums I have the following question. Are all in principle bad, so problems with engine, gearbox and electrics, or just the first of them? Can you say that the G’s are more reliable from a certain month and year onwards than the ones before? Furthermore, I had read somewhere that the 400 CDI had changed the engine from a certain date on and this can be seen from the engine cover (photos). Is that true and what has been modified? Thanks for your answers and if one has to sell one or if one knows who sells one please report one. Thank you in advance. Claude

Hello, I drove behind my own G today and am quite surprised that this smokes black when starting up and changing gear from the exhaust. Despite retrofitted particle filter for the green badge! With a vacuum cleaner I would be less concerned here. Here at the CDI I am not sure if this is so normal. I make oil change after Assyst and is used Aral 10-W40. The oil consumption is with approx. 1 liter to 15 – 20 thousand km normal I would say. now 112000 km and is from 01.2004. Why does the diesel smoke?? Is this because of the combustion??? Filters are all renewed!

The winter is hopefully still far away, but you can already think about it. I ordered a new G, which will be delivered in November/December, thus quite a candidate for winter bikes. I have so far on the G Astaroth rims in 7.5 J x 18H2 ET63. The new models all have the wheelhouse widths of the AMG and drive ET43. I would now like to use my old winter bikes further, especially since the rims are perfect and the tires only one winter hi Is it possible to balance this with track plates at a reasonable price? Or do I have to buy new rims? This question certainly comes to others here in the forum sooner or later. I also asked these questions to my dealer, you think about it (or let me think about it). Greetings OpenAirFan

According to a current Auto Bild article, the G-Class W463 will receive a large model maintenance from 2016 (model year 2017), while the W461 series will remain almost unchanged. With the most important data on the W463 facelift: width increase by 10 cm. Significant weight reduction by 375 kg; new frame construction made of aluminium. Multi-link front axle with lower and upper crossbars. Engines: Diesel as R6 with 313 hp, gasoline as R6 with 367 hp and 4.0 l V8 with 462 hp as well as an AMG-Varian 9-speed automatic. Electric power steering. Edged silhouette with almost vertical windows and steep rear flap is maintained. Adaptive LED matrix light. Moving air guide blinds. Numerous assistance systems as well as head-up display available. The G-Class is to be built up to at least 2027.

Hello and good evening together, I had feared it, now it happened: my W460 (280 GE) is so much fun for me that I decided to buy a G as a daily driver and leave my BMW X3. Time could be around the beginning of next year, so I have enough time to research. However, I am still at the beginning of the selection, which motorization is the “best” or most sensible. Driving performance should be about 12 to 15 t km per year. It has to be the long version and not a switch, but automatic. Heating is mandatory. May of course be an older used one, absolute must is the green environmental badge. Otherwise I have a real problem here in the Ruhr area. It must not come too brutally, so AMG versions fall out and maybe the V8 is already a bit too fat. Diesel or petrol engine is not important for the driving performance. I don’t know that I have tried different motorizations myself so far, the package reads with a 270 Cdi not bad at all. Of the 400 Cdi I am at the moment a bit off, because it is supposed to be (allegedly?) quite problem-conscious, which therefore does not exactly meet the function as a daily driver. But that is also only provisional, as said, I am at the beginning of my research. To this I would be very happy about helpful tips here from the community, everyone certainly has to be e personal experiences and preferences, logo, but certainly also basic recommendations. Thanks already now and many greetings from Dortmund -/PECCO

Hello together, have for a couple of months a G500 with which I now would like to have a PrinsVSI Autogas system installed. Now the question arises where with the gas tank. Actually had to have a cylinder tank installed under the vehicle between ladder frame and cardan shaft. The gas retrofitter was up to today quite optimistic and had already ordered the suitable tank (50 liters). Unfortunately the TÜV made us a line through the bill. A gas tank should not be next to the Kardanwell There is even a law for this. Does anyone know that ? Have already seen some vehicles (wrangler …) with which this was installed. Now should a cylinder tank in the trunk on the left wheel box. Shall fit in 70 liters. Where have the LPG drivers had the tank installed among you at the G? Are there better alternatives than the wheel box in the trunk ? Thanks already for every tip !

Hello. I got convinced by a customer to repair his G model. The box is ~8, 9 years old, has run 150,000 and all non-rusty body parts are made of plastic… All that is made of sheet metal is rusty. Well, that’s supposed to weld, sandblast & paint. He has written me 3 little things on the paper… – Window lifters don’t go (have I already broken apart, since the interior data bus (Can C) collapsed. – Engine makes funny noises (I) njektoren leaks, I have already milled and finished) – Disc wiper bearing in front right, rotates through sheet metal. I have now looked at the latter point and, uh, that’s fixed. Am I right in the assumption that the steel shaft is in an alubus? The shaft is steel, does it run in aluminum or is there anything else between? I would have to know that in order to make this complete again. MB wanted to pick out the amaturary board and renew the bearing, 3,000+€… glove compartment, etc. I did not have any problem. And I didn’t want to expand everything, you can certainly get it all over again… I really only know this stuff from old Opels, 190SLs, etc. in out, but in fixed rusted? What they don’t build all this today at MB…

There may be some interest in driving a few unusual roads with the G. The planning documentsDenzel, Grand Alpine Road Guide. The approachable high points of the Alps and the most curious mountain routes between Vienna and Marseille for sporty and tourist-oriented car and two-wheeler riders. Are all passes in, many gravel roads from the 1st World War in the area of France/Italy/Austria and who likes it closer, around Lake Garda there are also many nice routes. To do this you do not need MT tires or similar, you also do not break anything, these routes have been former roads for gun transports and their substructure is still intact today. Recommend cash or credit card, good mood and wish you a lot of fun. Hotels are there everywhere.

Hello together, I’m looking for a low-profile roof rack for my long G-Class W460. I prefer a ladder at the rear that doesn’t have to be screwed to the vehicle. I found the three of OCR, GMB-Mount and LeTech that can be ordered at the friendly one. Are there any further recommendations? At the OCR and GMB I understood that they are not screwed, how is that at the LeTech? Thanks for your feedback S.

Hello guys, someone has experience with the complete wheels “Stahlfelge 16-inch 6×16 ET63 with BF-Goodrich Mud-Terrain KO3 Offroad? How are they really on asphalt and especially wet? Is there possibly also an all-year tire version of it??