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Surging, Bucking with new Kompressor C230

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Help! We bought a new 2003 Kompressor C230 for my daughter in November of 02. One morning after we had had it for 3 weeks, she started it and the car began surging and bucking and making a huge noise. Also the exhaust seemed excessive. In shop, they could not get it to repeat this behavior and a computer check revealed no problems. We took car back but a week or two later the same problem occurred once again in the morning. This time they replaced a sensor at the shop. Once again within a couple of days the problem occurred again. The shop still could not get the car to repeat the problem for them. They did replace a number of things such as a fuel injector and some other sensors. On the
morning they were returning the car to us, they started the car and experienced the bucking and surging. A factory rep was called in and after another week, they decided it must be bad fuel so they cleaned out all fuel. They assured us this was the problem. One day after getting it back we had the same problem again. This past Friday they gave us a new Kompressor. Guess what today Sunday, my daughter starts the new car and it does the same thing. Please anyone, help!!!!!!
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Hey Musical,

I just registered on this site today to find out if anyone else out there was having the same problem as you described. I just bought my wife a new 2003 C230 Sport Sedan automatic with only 10 miles on it. Lately, especially in the mornings, it exhibits the exact "jerking" you describe, even when still in "park". We bought the car about a month ago, and first noticed the odd behavior about two weeks into ownership. It now has about 700 miles on it and seems to "jerk" EVERY morning when we start it up. After reading your post, I'm a little distressed because I had planned to take it in to the dealership this upcoming weekend, but it doesn't sound like they'll have any clue how to fix it.

My hope is that as more people begin buying this car, more incidents of this jerking will be reported and documented and MB will be forced to research the issue. Hopefully it will only be attributable to a single part for which they will issue a recall and perform a simple "fix". I'm keeping my fingers crossed, but I already feel a bit better knowing someone else out there is having the exact same problem.

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