Tricks06uk
New Member
Hi All,
My first time posting here, as I have only just recently entered the world of Mercs - so its nice to cyber meet you all !!.
I was wondering if I could make a fool of myself as I am so new to mercs and the question I need to ask is probably so simple to remedy that alot of you will just laugh but here goes..
Obviously having just bought the CLK (I got it for a good price) I found it was in a terible state cleanliness wise inside and out. I have tidied up the inside and the outside, and under the bonnet was absolutely filthy, to the point that it really let the car down. So i embarked off to the local Halfords and bought some gunk and did the business. I left the gunk for 10 minutes and lightly jet washed the crap off, taking as much care as possible not to hit things I could do with out hitting - i.e electrics.
This was on Sunday (two days ago). Last night I had a need to go to hospital so I jumped in and approximately two miles down the road it started running on two cylinders, so I limped it a further two miles to hospital where I stopped it and started it up again immmediately. As soon as I did this it was firing on all cylinders again.
Coming home from the hospital it did exactly the same. I am confident that it has got some water in somewhere, but dont know the engine well enough to start pulling things out and spraying with WD & drying them - can any of you point me in the right direction by description where I should be attacking ??
I would really appreciate it !!
Ta
Richard
(you can stop laughing now and help !!! )
My first time posting here, as I have only just recently entered the world of Mercs - so its nice to cyber meet you all !!.
I was wondering if I could make a fool of myself as I am so new to mercs and the question I need to ask is probably so simple to remedy that alot of you will just laugh but here goes..
Obviously having just bought the CLK (I got it for a good price) I found it was in a terible state cleanliness wise inside and out. I have tidied up the inside and the outside, and under the bonnet was absolutely filthy, to the point that it really let the car down. So i embarked off to the local Halfords and bought some gunk and did the business. I left the gunk for 10 minutes and lightly jet washed the crap off, taking as much care as possible not to hit things I could do with out hitting - i.e electrics.
This was on Sunday (two days ago). Last night I had a need to go to hospital so I jumped in and approximately two miles down the road it started running on two cylinders, so I limped it a further two miles to hospital where I stopped it and started it up again immmediately. As soon as I did this it was firing on all cylinders again.
Coming home from the hospital it did exactly the same. I am confident that it has got some water in somewhere, but dont know the engine well enough to start pulling things out and spraying with WD & drying them - can any of you point me in the right direction by description where I should be attacking ??
I would really appreciate it !!
Ta
Richard
(you can stop laughing now and help !!! )