What Have You Done To Your Merc Today?

[bembo449]

canter to Hull for the big fella but developed a hiccup on the return journey

 

[A.J.]

A bit of a face lift to-day, new centre caps !

 

[00slk]

Nothing........It's broken

 

[android]

A few hours work
Don't think the alloy wheels have ever seen cleaner!

Sent from my Redmi Note 4 using Tapatalk

 

[A.J.]

The remaining 190 miles took under under 2 mind

How much !!!

 

[LostKiwi]

Swapped out the head unit in the 129 for an all singjng all dancing DAB/bluetooth/handsfree/voice activation/USB/aux in one. Sounds good, doesn't look too out of place either.

 

[SRE]

Repaired the hinge on one of the little rear cover flaps. The flap popped off the last time I dropped the roof and I was going to buy one of the 3D printed hinge repair kits from the USA until I read this post suggesting using stainless wire and a small drill. Seems to work and cost me nothing but a little time.

 

[LostKiwi]

Photo of the new head unit in place.


Night illumination is almost a perfect match.

 

[John Laidlaw]

How much !!!

Ahem yes, I was ‘motivated’

 

[John Laidlaw]

Nothing........It's broken

Yikes what’s up?

 

[00slk]

Yikes what’s up?

Oil leak from what looks like a tiny radiator in front of the air-con rad. Drove the car up onto my lorry, locked it, ready to take to Giles and when I headed off on Tuesday morning the car alarm went off. By the time I realised it was the wife's SL on the back of the lorry and not the neigbours works van the alarm had stopped. So used the fob to unlock the wife's car and it wouldn't unlock, I put the key blade into the door lock, opened the door and the alarm went off again. No amount of pressing the buttons on the key worked, neither did putting the key into the ignition as it wouldn't turn. I then pressed the unlock button on the key and held the button down. The alarm switched off I put the key into the ignition and started the car, all's good then I switched off the towing alarm and siren on the centre console and left to take the car to the garage. At the garage the car started, backed it off the lorry and the car was locked. Giles phoned last Thursday to say he can't get into the car as the alarm goes off and that was after he had to use the key blade to open the door. It's like it has dead locked itself thinking it is trying to be nicked.
My wife has been using the 55 since Monday

 

[John Laidlaw]

Oil leak from what looks like a tiny radiator in front of the air-con rad. Drove the car up onto my lorry, locked it, ready to take to Giles and when I headed off on Tuesday morning the car alarm went off. By the time I realised it was the wife's SL on the back of the lorry and not the neigbours works van the alarm had stopped. So used the fob to unlock the wife's car and it wouldn't unlock, I put the key blade into the door lock, opened the door and the alarm went off again. No amount of pressing the buttons on the key worked, neither did putting the key into the ignition as it wouldn't turn. I then pressed the unlock button on the key and held the button down. The alarm switched off I put the key into the ignition and started the car, all's good then I switched off the towing alarm and siren on the centre console and left to take the car to the garage. At the garage the car started, backed it off the lorry and the car was locked. Giles phoned last Thursday to say he can't get into the car as the alarm goes off and that was after he had to use the key blade to open the door. It's like it has dead locked itself thinking it is trying to be nicked.
My wife has been using the 55 since Monday

A catalogue of woes there! Giles will get to the bottom of it though

 

[davemercedes]

Oh boy... Cars are like I used to describe girlfriends when I was in my teens: nice to have but complicated and expensive!

 

[Frosty149]

Ahem yes, I was ‘motivated’

Photo of the new head unit in place.
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Night illumination is almost a perfect match.

Did you choose the track for the photo- you old trendy, you!

 

[Lord_Lucan]

Said goodbye to it....and said hello to its replacement!

 

[Wighty]

Said goodbye to it....and said hello to its replacement!

What you got now buddy ... Stick some pics up . (Was it the E320cdi)

 

[Craiglxviii]

Nothing to the car other than putting 65 miles on it, but yesterday we moved house. A HUGE thank you to LostKiwi (Alastair) who demonstrated yet again what a gentleman and general all- around top man he is by contributing his Saturday and about 15,000 calories of effort in helping with the loading & unloading.

Now- to the garage!

 

[00slk]

Nothing to the car other than putting 65 miles on it, but yesterday we moved house. A HUGE thank you to LostKiwi (Alastair) who demonstrated yet again what a gentleman and general all- around top man he is by contributing his Saturday and about 15,000 calories of effort in helping with the loading & unloading.

Now- to the garage!

Will you be changing your location signature Craig?
I can agree with you on Lostkiwi being very helpful, he and you show some good knowledge (along with a other forum members) and I personally find your responses to some inquiries on the forum very informative Malcolm is solely missed on here and in real life, it is great that there can be some who can, maybe follow in Malcolm's foot steps and continue the wealth of expertise that so many of us turn to on this great forum.

 

[Lord_Lucan]

What you got now buddy ... Stick some pics up . (Was it the E320cdi)

Hi, I'll get some pics up later today with any luck. Went for the C320 cdi in the end as it was too good a deal to turn down and 10 miles away. Got a very good amount for my old car and so far am very happy with it. The drive on it is so much smoother but it was going to be going from a 4 cylinder with 5g transmission to 6 cylinder with 7g. In the 20 or miles covered so far it's returning 48 mpg according to the on screen dash.

 

[Lord_Lucan]

Nothing to the car other than putting 65 miles on it, but yesterday we moved house. A HUGE thank you to LostKiwi (Alastair) who demonstrated yet again what a gentleman and general all- around top man he is by contributing his Saturday and about 15,000 calories of effort in helping with the loading & unloading.

Now- to the garage!

Congratulations on the move. Are you still within Cambs? Top work from LK there; get that man a drink