What Have You Done To Your Merc Today?

John Laidlaw

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Always got ideas!
Anyway drove mine to work today in the yuk...
 

00slk

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2002 SL55 AMG, 2005 E320 CDi, 2014 SLK250 CDi, 2003 SLK200
Cleaned mine and now gallarvanting around Birmingham :D set the sat nav for shortest route to Birmingham but it was longer in miles than the A14 :rolleyes:
 

John Laidlaw

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Filled it with Shell v power.....hmmm seemed to go faster if thats possible!
 

nicholas15

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s class w221 - 2012 350 Bluetec, SL500 r230 2003
It's the Placebo effect ;)

May be a placebo effect but I find it is also 48 vs 45 mpg difference with a S350 diesel engine (so 6% improved fuel consumption for 8% increase in price?).
Supermarket cheapie fuel makes it cough round town.
 

00slk

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Got it dirty again, no car washes handy :(
 

John Laidlaw

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Left it home today and used the XC90 to drive to work....
 

00slk

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Averaged 12.3mpg around Birmingham and Coventry :)........Obviously not driving hard enough :rolleyes:
 

Craiglxviii

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970 Panamera Turbo; W221 S500L AMG Line, C215 CL500, W251 R350L AMG Line, plus several more now gone
Averaged 12.3mpg around Birmingham and Coventry :)........Obviously not driving hard enough :rolleyes:

You can’t drive hard enough to get out of Coventry, I find!!!
 

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