What Have You Done To Your Merc Today?

snipez999

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18MY E63S AMG W213
Managed to find one of the "James" Numatic vacuum cleaners on Facebay in Greenock last night, after a couple of months searching. Most often they were overpriced, in dire condition, or just set the old radar off.
So, I arranged to go look at it this morning, hoping for the best, despite my too good to be true radar pinging just a little. It's a fifty mile round trip to boot. :rolleyes:
Yes, I am paranoid, generally I don't have a lot of good luck, with stuff lol.
The vendor turned out to be an absolute gem of a chap though, he had everything for the unit, tools, owners manual etc..
The only reason for the sale, despite the item only being few months old, was, it was "too small for his needs", he wanted one of the commercial applications instead. Hooray! For a change I win a watch (ok, a hoover, lol)

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I was in such a good mood mainly down to getting a perfect bargain, the weather being bright, sunny and the scenery being beautiful, I got my lad, who came with me, to take a couple of pics as we ran along the A78 coast road.

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As you can see from the dirt on the screen the weather and roads are still filthy. Just a shame I never thought of taking the pics until we got stuck behind a group of approx 25 very selfish cyclists on our way back home between Skelmorlie and Largs. Never mind.
Looks like there'll be a few cars getting vacuumed out over the weekend at my house. :D

Best one I ever had was a Henry I was buying for the garage. Got it for 8 quid I believe as seller said it was b*ggered after he’d cut though power cable in error. Got it home and proceeded to check it over. Upon opening the plug I noticed that in his quest to replace the power lead with a new one, he’d simply reversed the L and N wires (or was colour blind). So a 30 second fix and a nearly new Henry for 8 quid including all the tools!
 

LostKiwi

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'93 500SL-32, '01 W210 Estate E240 (RIP), 02 R230 SL500, 04 Smart Roadster Coupe, 11 R350CDi
Clk seemed slightly slower to start yesterday , so this morning a brought up the dash voltage before starting and it was showing 12.1 volts .
I know that's getting a bit low and it is the original battery (2009 ) so maybe time for a new one ??
What do we think ?
I may be on the phone to Grangemouth later .
Pah... That's a juvenile battery!
Replaced the one in thec210 this year. The date code said it was 2003.....
 

Wighty

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W211/E320cdi/2009 and CLK200k 2009
Pah... That's a juvenile battery!
Replaced the one in thec210 this year. The date code said it was 2003.....
That's impressive and my existing one may have more life left but at 10 years I've had my money's worth .
 

Wighty

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Small pallet just arrived containing a big new Clk battery . Only ordered it yesterday and I'd forgotten already when the delivery guy arrived .
 

Wighty

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Got the new battery in , God it was heavy and fiddly . Not a lot of spare room in the battery tray area .
Probably took an hour in total , which was 45 mins more than I said to Mrs W when I left the house .
Car only needed the Windows resetting , the radio stations all came back ok .
Gave the battery base tray a good spray with ACF50 before fitting the new battery .
 

Karzi

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E class coupe 2010 3ltr
New windscreen wipers it’s like wearing glasses


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00slk

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2002 SL55 AMG, 2005 E320 CDi, 2014 SLK250 CDi, 2003 SLK200
This arrived today, many thanks to Grangemouth MB for their forum discount.

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Now to find the time to fit all the new bits :shock:
 

Jimbo1959

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VW Scirocco. The Quattro, E350 CDi Blue Efficiency Sport Coupe, now both gone
Small pallet just arrived containing a big new Clk battery . Only ordered it yesterday and I'd forgotten already when the delivery guy arrived .

It's nice to get good service from a vendor, it's becoming quite rare these days. Bet you had fun doing the swop. :p
 

Jimbo1959

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VW Scirocco. The Quattro, E350 CDi Blue Efficiency Sport Coupe, now both gone
Pretty sure , but I've spent a lot of time in the Scottish mountains , and consumed Whiskey , so my DNA may have been altered .

I say more likely definitely altered, lol. Honorary Scot confirmed! :D:D:D
 

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