I would try in this order:
Clean with a soft bristle (tooth?) brush and some 10:1 all purpose cleaner diluted with warm water and also cleaning/drying with a micro fibre towel.
After the good cleaning above, if it needs recolouring, paying a pro what opinions would suggest might be sub-£100...
I wonder if you refuse to pay for bolts etc in advance, will they refuse to do the work and allow you to drive off with a snapped subframe?
Or, can you say they need to reuse everything except the subframe, would they actually do that, or just replace anyway?
It seems a nonsense for Merc to...
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If not the link to the shut off relays, I'd guess some sort of electrical fault.
Water in a fuse box or SAM?
Water in the doors playing havoc with the electric window circuit and confusing the ECU?
A broken...
Sorry if this is obvious and you already know. If a private sale you're on your own to fix. If you bought from any trade seller, the problem is theirs to fix.
I didn't know this a not many years ago, and ended up pouring money into fixing SOME of the issues with an Insignia I bought. If I'd...
What we really want is whilst the subframe is dropped, for Merc to bin the steel lines and replace with copper-nickel, so the brake lines are routed 'correctly' above the subframe. Would be a good job done for life of the car.
However, for internal policy reasons, I suspect Merc will only...
I've been with Direct Line premium insurnace for a few years. First year was a very competitive price. They have been going up a bit steep and not the best value compared with other but still decent cover and not enough of a saving for me to be botheree moving. Last year, the increase was...
My understanding of most engines is that the sump is a hollow chamber connected to and underneath the crank and pistons.
IF smoke from the dipstick is not normal for this engine (and I have no idea on that), then either there is excess pressure building up (hence blocked PCV is a good shout, so...
For a cheap parts darts option, you could try giving the battery a good charge, amd changing the DPF pressure sensor for a genuine Merc unit. Sounds awfully like symptoms I was having, also without repeatable code generation. Turning off and on the car could clear the fault sometimes. It got...
Tell her it's a a safety feature and is supposed to be there. Suggest (but do nothing!!!!!) about the blue tac or roll of black tape options for when she's driving. Nothing more you can do and if she wants to eliminate the safety feature, it's time to put on some big girl shoes and do it...
I also leave a bigger gap when pulling up behind someone because:
- They might be a learner and roll back on a hill.
- They might make a mistake (does happen, and happened with cars in front of me) and roll back on a hill.
- They might make a mistake and put it in reverse (this has happened to...
The socket sizes are often E10, E12 etc relating to 10mm, 12mm etc.
I've found with a decent 6-sides socket that has the corners rounded out (by design) a lot of these fit over the torx head bolts. But I don't think there are many torx head bolts. Most of the smaller ones you can just buy a...
I don't know about the OM651, but on the VW 2.0TDI varients, the high pressure pump needs to be full and have no air as the diesel acts as the lubricant and any dry (with air) running can be catastrophic because you will be surprised to here the high pressure pump is made of chocolate. This they...
My view in terms of the practicality of operating my vehicle in the interests of safety, especially those in more vulnerable positions, is I don't hoon it round roundabouts, and I treat the roundabout as it's own separate entity so when I exit the roundabout ON TO another road (which might...
Take it to a Mercedes specialist, at least to start with, who should bring able to look at fault codes and live data to try and pinpoint more closely the fault.
For the easiest life, probably leave it with them to fix.
If not and up for a challenge, are you confident ordering parts, taking...
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