-3 °C at 6 a.m. on Victoria Road, windscreen white, courier deadlines calling. You key the Sprinter and the blue light joins the crackling frost: P13DF – heater circuit open. No heater means thick, jelly-like urea that the pump can’t pull, and the countdown to “No start” begins. Each winter…
Sprinter drivers love the van but hate the blue DEF lamp. Since 2021 I’ve cleared more than 250 Sprinter AdBlue faults around Stoke-on-Trent, and the P-code gang is almost always the same: P20E8, P20E9, P13DF, P204F, U029E. Mercedes’ own November 2024 technical bulletin lists them as the top warranty claims…