A very stong gasoline smell in the garage after having car filled. The strong smell has been going on for sometime but didn't think too much about it. Last week a plumber came to my house for a leaky pipe situation and noticed the smell and said that was not normal and cou ld present a fire hazard! I immediately took the car to greenway mercedes late on tuesday, 9-29-15. I said I won't have to pay for this because it must be a defect. They said indeed I would have to pay. The diagnostic showed that it was the seals in the fuel sending unit, and I paid $1400 to be repaired. I told them I was going to file a complaint with you because I had researched and found other complaints filed for the same problem with you.
2007 Mercedes Benz CLK350 fuel system complaints
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Tl* the contact owns a 2007 mercedes benz clk350. Upon refueling the vehicle, the contact smelled a strong odor of fuel outside and inside the vehicle. The failure progressed without warning. The vehicle was not inspected and diagnosed. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 99,942.
Driving down the road at a slow speed and the car just quits. Sometimes it will start itself back up and sometimes I have to pull off to the side of the road to turn ignition off and then on again. The car will just quit at highway speeds and after some quick thinking and realizing what just happened the only thing to do is drift to the berm of the road with no pwr steering or brakes. There are also times when I start the car it will quit and takes two to three more tries. Also had a severe raw gas coming from the car after a fill up. The gas fumes were so severe that we had to park the car outside for fear of an explosion in our garage. I took the car to the mb dealer in pittsburgh and they were able to repair the gas problem as the gaskets around the gas tank were dry-rotted and I paid approx $600.00 for this repair which I feel that mb should have covered since at 66000 miles this should not happen. As usual they could not duplicate the stalling issue. Mb know of this problem but will not do anything since it doesn't show up on there computer hook-ups. Something needs to be done before people get killed. I'm sure I'm not the only one this happens too.
There is a very strong gas smell. It is overwhelming, lasts for days, and we need to park the car outside of the garage, as the smell is so intense it makes you feel sick. It just started happening about a week or two ago, and seems to be most obvious after getting fuel. I searched the internet and found that this seems to be a very common problem with a lot of mb owners having similar issues. Also, there seems to be a recent class action suit initiated by the federal safety agency involving this problem. I'm concerned this could be a life threatening safety problem if an explosion occurs and the intense fumes seem likely to cause other health related problems.
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