Mercedes Recalling S580 And Maybach S580 Because Their V8s Could Stall

Spending up to 5 times arsenic overmuch arsenic the mean car purchaser mightiness get you a much luxurious car, but it doesn’t wholly insure you against annoying breakdowns and gremlins. This week Mercedes announced it was recalling 27,000 of its astir costly sedans owed to a imaginable occupation with their V8 engines.

The affected cars are 26,260 examples of the Mercedes-branded S580 sedan built for the 2021-23 exemplary years, and 930 of the fancier Mercedes-Maybach S580 of the aforesaid vintage. Both vehicles usage an identical 496 hp (503 PS) 4.0-liter V8.

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Those V8s are fitted with 48-volt mild-hybrid hardware to summation their efficiency, arsenic good arsenic Mercedes’ Camtronic cylinder deactivation exertion which tin power disconnected combustion astatine 4 cylinders erstwhile cruising.

But Mercedes has discovered that successful the lawsuit of a hardware nonaccomplishment with the Camtronic equipment, the lambda power strategy mightiness inadvertently squirt excessively overmuch substance into the cylinders, expanding exhaust temperatures. This could pb to harm to components similar the catalytic converter and perchance origin the motor to stall, which could beryllium unsafe.

Drivers won’t get immoderate beforehand warning, the automaker claims, but they mightiness announcement a cheque motor airy look erstwhile the responsibility is occurring, and earlier the motor has stalled. Beginning successful summertime 2023, a disproportionate fig of owners began reporting engines that wouldn’t spell oregon commencement up, starring Mercedes to investigate.

The automaker’s solution is to update the bundle successful the motor power unit, which unluckily can’t beryllium done via an over-air update, truthful requires a travel to a dealer. That sounds similar a large inconvenience to time-is-money Maybach owners, though we conjecture they tin ever nonstop their chauffeurs.

And don’t spell reasoning that if they’d spent a small much and got the V12 S680 they’d person avoided immoderate recalls. Both the Maybach S580 and S680 were recalled past year for an contented with a 12-volt crushed connection.