Mercedes is a well known company that is symbolized for its quality most of the time. Benz cars are known to the best durable cars in the whole world. Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz are the two persons behind the formation of such a big company, Mercedes, long back about 150 years ago. The technological aspects and security features brought by Mercedes to the whole automobile industry is vast in nature and endless. A Mercedes Benz car will never clatter and squeal with disregard to the age of the car, only because the car is fused together in almost 10000 places that never allow the nuts and bolts to get lose. The engines of the Mercedes Benz cars possess overhead camshafts that help to distribute smooth and safe driving at high speeds too. The engines are always checked for efficiency by the engineers, before they are placed into the cars and this particular fact goes to prove that the quality of the engine is taken into consideration as always.
Mercedes kompressor is nothing but an engine option that is accessible for most Mercedes Benz model cars. SLK230, C230 and C180 are some popular Mercedes Benz models available with Mercedes kompressor option. Mercedes kompressor is available from 1998, and it is said to be first launched for SLK Mercedes Benz models.
Actually, “Kompressor” refers to “compressor” in German language, and it makes use of turbines and helps to compress the air inside the engine.
As mentioned before, Mercedes kompressor engines are available for C180, C230, SLK 230, and SLK 200. However, SLK models are said to be most powerful models since they possess more horsepower and top speed. SLK 200 model has 163 horsepower and a top speed of 138 mph while SLK 230 model kompressor has top speed of 168 mph and 197 horsepower. C180 model kompressor possesses 154 horsepower while C230 kompressor is said to have 189 horsepower.
Advantages of Kompressor engine:
Generally speaking, Mercedes kompressor are said to be intercooled and turbocharged with the fuel that is said to be infused inside the engine from several points at the same time. These kompressors are said to be pretty smooth and fast in nature thereby offering steady power to the engine.
When compared to the regular engines, Mercedes kompressor employs turbine to compress the air and does not perform the recycling process of air such as the traditionally charged engines. This particular factor helps the Mercedes kompressor to have a smooth nature and also provides more power to it which never lags during the process like the regular supercharged engines.
Negative aspects:
Mercedes kompressor is a pretty loud noise generating engine, especially on the inner side of the Mercedes car. However, a silencer has been fit to reduce the noise. Still, kompressors are not able to reduce the noise generated. Some Mercedes Benz owners prefer to have less noise and so they hire a mechanic to work on the supercharger to at least reduce the noise to some extent.