Mercedes VDO Engine ECU Repairs

Type: VDO
Fits: Mercedes-Benz
Fuel: Petrol
Ref: ECUT79225

Note: This ECU may also fit other models.

VDO is the maker of the Mercedes-numbered petrol engine ECUs this page deals with. Our engineers make a Mercedes VDO ECU repair inside the unit itself, at the point where diagnosis finds the fault. Our table, and the record lower down, are arranged by the Mercedes number.

Up one level is the page where Mercedes-Benz engine ECU work is introduced.

VDO the maker, Mercedes the number

VDO is the name in the Type line at the top of this page. Our table, though, is led by Mercedes numbers, and on some rows it also prints a VDO number beside the Mercedes number.

Since VDO is the maker named for the whole page, the maker’s name does not tell one row of our table from another. The Mercedes number does, which is why the sections further down are headed by Mercedes numbers, following our table from top to bottom.

Those headings copy the Mercedes numbers character for character from our table. If the label gives a Mercedes number found in our table, the heading with that number leads to what is on record for it.

Vehicle and engine size details in those sections belong to the record for the Mercedes number heading them, and are not part of our table. Where a section also gives a VDO number, it is the one our table prints on that row, and listings tie it to the same Mercedes number.

When choosing a section, go by the Mercedes number, not by the vehicle the ECU was removed from.

A Mercedes VDO unit on our workbench

Our workshop specialises in engine ECUs, ECMs and PCMs. A Mercedes VDO petrol engine ECU reaches us by post from anywhere in the UK; we run a mail-in service by choice, with no counter to call at, so the unit makes the journey and the vehicle does not.

On arrival, the unit is logged and visually inspected. It is then tested electrically, and after that our engineers run diagnostics aimed at the fault reported to us.

Among the faults our engineers trace inside engine ECUs are a failed injector driver, dry joints, a failed voltage regulator and a faulty CAN bus transceiver. Diagnosis establishes what has failed in this particular unit.

When diagnosis is complete, we contact you with what it found and a quote for the repair. No chargeable work begins until you authorise it, so the choice to proceed is made with the diagnosis in front of you.

The repair itself is made at component level, on the fault that diagnosis identified, rather than by fitting a different unit in place of yours. Our engineers carry it out under a microscope with temperature-controlled rework equipment.

This work stays in our own UK workshop, on our own equipment. Nothing is outsourced, subcontracted or sent overseas.

A repaired unit is not ready to leave until it passes final testing. A Mercedes VDO unit we have repaired goes home with 24 months’ warranty. It applies to that fault-specific work and is held in the name of the sender and nobody else.

The Mercedes VDO record, number by number

These sections follow our table from its top row down.

006 545 81 32

A Mercedes-Benz S-Class is on record for 006 545 81 32.

013 545 11 32

013 545 11 32 is on record from a Mercedes-Benz E-Class. A 2.8-litre engine is on record for 013 545 11 32.

013 545 15 32

Records for 013 545 15 32 include a Mercedes-Benz E-Class.

013 545 80 32

Our table lists 013 545 80 32. With that Mercedes number on the label, the unit is logged, tested and diagnosed before a quote is put to you.

015 545 96 32

Listings for 015 545 96 32 name a Mercedes-Benz E-Class.

016 545 18 32

There is a Mercedes-Benz E-Class on record for 016 545 18 32.

016 545 78 32

Beside 016 545 78 32, our table prints the VDO number 412.229/006/014. Listings attribute that same VDO number to 016 545 78 32.

016 545 79 32

016 545 79 32 is included in our table. Send in a unit with that number on its label, and our engineers diagnose it before any chargeable work is done.

016 545 80 32

412.229/006/016 is the VDO number our table prints beside 016 545 80 32. Records for 016 545 80 32 give that VDO number too.

016 545 81 32

An engine size of 3.2 litres is on record for 016 545 81 32.

017 545 26 32

Listings for 017 545 26 32 name a Mercedes-Benz E-Class. Our table prints 412.232/001/007 beside 017 545 26 32. That VDO number is on record for 017 545 26 32 as well. Records for 017 545 26 32 also give a 3.2-litre engine.

017 545 71 32

017 545 71 32 is on record from a Mercedes-Benz C-Class.

018 545 17 32

Records for 018 545 17 32 include a Mercedes-Benz E-Class. A 2.8-litre engine is on record for 018 545 17 32.

019 545 15 32

019 545 15 32 appears in our table. For that Mercedes number, the route is the one described above: diagnosis first, then your authorisation, then the repair.

019 545 59 32

A Mercedes-Benz E-Class is on record for 019 545 59 32.

021 545 68 32

Our table prints 021 545 68 32. Should the label read 021 545 68 32, our engineers test and diagnose the unit, and no chargeable work starts until you authorise it.

A 161 545 37 32

A SsangYong Musso is on record for A 161 545 37 32. Records for A 161 545 37 32 give an engine size of 2.3 litres.

A 161 545 46 32

Listings for A 161 545 46 32 name a SsangYong Korando. A 2.3-litre engine is on record for A 161 545 46 32.

A 162 545 30 32

There is a SsangYong Musso on record for A 162 545 30 32. The record for A 162 545 30 32 includes a 3.2-litre engine.

WA 202 545 96 32

Our table also lists WA 202 545 96 32. If the label shows WA 202 545 96 32, send the unit to us by post; it is diagnosed, and you hear the outcome, before you are asked to approve any work.

WA 202 545 98 32

WA 202 545 98 32 is on record from a Mercedes-Benz C-Class.

Posting a Mercedes VDO unit for repair

Contact us for a quote by way of a Repair Form sent about a Mercedes VDO unit.

Our engineers take in engine ECUs from European, Japanese, Korean and American manufacturers. Engine ECUs from other makers sit under the hub linking our make pages for engine ECUs. For a wider picture, see What We Repair, a page listing more engine control units.

The table behind the headings above follows.

Common part numbers associated with this type of unit