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[luders79]

Good evening all,

Just wondering what everyone who posters on here to help peole with probelms do? Are all the big poster's MB trained tech's? what ages are people? not trying to be rude just was interested as there are people on here the seem to have vast knowledge of these cars.
im only 24 and was just wondering how everyone had gained their knowledge!

Hope i havn't offended anyone as i have asked about age!!!

 

[Cole@MBS]

Forgotten how many years as a mb tech, in the workshops and roadside.

39 years old, always been a grease monkey,

So yes, full mb trained now running MBS with my partner Dave,also a mb trained tech!!

 

[100%Bitch]

now running MBS with my partner Dave

There was me thinking you were straight.

 

[alan782]

I met colin today and 39 is optomistic

 

[television]

Back in the 50's when I started out, cars were my hobby and electronics fed that passion. with a good engineering back ground it was easy to rebuild engines and gear boxes, as a lad during the war, we had to make what ever we needed, so everything had a use.

Only had 5 MBs but hundreds of others, understanding car electronics I saw an opening on the forums, so I sit here like a zombie, why I will never know, other than its nice to help others if you can

 

[100%Bitch]

I met colin today and 39 is optomistic

Must be the distinguished grey hair.

 

[alan782]

A dammed nice bloke though!! Mind you i would say that i have not got my car back yet!

 

[teddycatkin]

I learned to drive in 1954 aged 7 loved it spent hours on tractors then ! all over the fields--mostly instead of going to school--in those days you fixed your own.
Moved through the 50,s/60,s motorcyles and cars came and went by the dozen-if you could fix em you always made a quick buck and I loved anything mechanical.
I ran away to sea at 15 travelled the world-had loads of jobs later-including Rolls Royce Motors and Vauxhall Motors--2002 I retired from my job of 18 years with a large logistics firm with a small pension (main contract M&S) and joined Royal Mail (part time) to boost the pension a bit --in 2007 I packed it all in and am now in my little retiement bungalow-gardening and polishing my cars.
I have owned and maintained my own classic mercedes cars for the last 17 years and am also an MB club member.

 

[Cole@MBS]

There was me thinking you were straight.

Straight as the day is long!!!

Ok, just for Helen, Work partner!!!

 

[Cole@MBS]

I met colin today and 39 is optomistic

What you trying to say Alan

 

[100%Bitch]

Straight as the day is long!!!

Ok, just for Helen, Work partner!!!

There would be nothing wrong if you were. :lol::lol:

 

[Cole@MBS]

A dammed nice bloke though!! Mind you i would say that i have not got my car back yet!

You will get your car back better than you left it with us Sir, a bit of work needed but for the age and miles she has done, its a good spec and good car Alan,

 

[Cole@MBS]

There would be nothing wrong if you were. :lol::lol:

Maybe in your books, not in mine

 

[Micman]

Good evening all,

Just wondering what everyone who posters on here to help peole with probelms do? Are all the big poster's MB trained tech's? what ages are people?

Well, I'm 34 and a graphic designer, I just like cars and bought my first Merc at 27 - the closest I've come to working in the motor industry was several years ago when the agency I worked for had Toyota amongst their clients.

I have always been interested in cars! I only reply to the occasional post when I feel I have something valid to share, can speak from a similar experience or have a valid point of view. I don't get hung up on the technical stuff under the bonnet - It wouldn't be right for me too!!

Quite handy for me though is that I'm surrounded by people with links to the car trade - a mates dad runs his own garage and MOT station, my wifes cousin is a mechanic for Chrysler/Jeep, my father-in-law runs his own repair/bodyshop and growing up my dad used to do most of the mechanical work on his own cars as well as service peoples cars alongside his day job as a woodwork / metalwork teacher!

:lol:

 

[outsmartsmart]

44 years young, currently director of a manufacturing firm with a place out in China I run too.

Started to drive at 15, legally owned a Triumph Herald at 17, learning all my mechanics as an apprentice with Rover and being the apprentice to my dad doing his own cars and was smitten by the Triumph brand with a succession of Heralds, Vitesse's, Dollys and Sprints. By the time I was married at 22 I'd had so many cars (mostly of BLMC/Austin/Triumph/Rover flavour) the DVLC (as was then) investigated me as a trader!!!

Got married, still chopped and changed cars every few months and then got promoted to the utopian land of company cars......wow, the fastest vehicles ever made apparently, ha ha.

Still doing the Rover portfolio (Acclaim, Metro, Maestro and Montego....) and then at the relatively young age of 26 I had two company cars and had that perk until about 2 years ago.

Moved to BMW and stepped up a class from Rover 100/200/400/600/800 to the world of 3 series and 5 series (best car I ever owned, still, a 530d estate circa 2001) before moving back to the UK to work for Aston Martin where I had the chance to drive exotica of every brand as well as Astons on my drive most weeks. The two company cars then were from Ford/Land-Rover/Volvo/Jaguar varieties, all good cars, no complaints.

Lost count of how many cars that is over the years but I used to change my car every 3-5 months and my second car every 6-7 months so became used to brand-new cars

Now I take a chunk of cash (as my company car here was inherited from previous encumbent - a urine yellow Mondeo Titanium X, great car actually) and think about my purchases as it's my own money that runs it and despite my resisting it as long as I could Merc' just kept making sense. Now on my third, an E320CDi Avantgarde with panoramic roof and love it (after a C220CDi Avantgarde estate and a CLK 320 Avantgarde cabrio)

 

[Dosco]

Straight as the day is long!!!

Ok, just for Helen, Work partner!!!

You should have known better, the slightest 'gap' and Helen will expose you, politically correct or what:lol::lol::lol:

 

[Dosco]

Beginning to seem like I have been around forever. Left school just before my 15th went into the mining industry - as everybody did from the village - completed a 5yr craft apprenticeship. Bought my first 'car' on my motor bike license I use the term car very loosely as it was a 3 wheel 'Bond' with a JAP motor bike engine driving the front wheel via a chain (the reverse blanked off, which I promptly removed) then on to a Hillman Minx 'straight 4' side valve hand painted in LMS gritty Black. Skimmed the head at work didn't do much though other than blowing up one weekend whilst out with a girl who I really fancied, can you believe it she walked away and I never saw her again!

Spent my early years re-building a Fowler 6hp Traction Engine with a couple of mates, then went and sold it. Kept my 1st wife's father's straight 6 Vauxhall Velox on the road doing just about everything to it, including replacing countless sills!

After leaving the mining industry had my first a company vehicle - a Bedford Van with fall off sliding doors, following which I had countless company cars - working my way through many Fords, at one time I had a Montego whose steering got lighter the faster you went put the fear of whatever into you!

Whilst working in the US I was loaned a Cadillac, great cruiser when going in a straight line but a real bugger running around the city. Whilst there I helped one of my colleagues rebuild a 'T Bird' which had an almighty great engine which 'hoovered up gas' like there was no tomorrow coupled to a three speed auto box (think that is right)

My first Merc, a CE280 was a dream of a motor and fast, very fast then a V8 coupe, have pic but cannot remember the model, after becoming the MD of the company.

That was when I became infected with 'the bug' But before I bought my Merc I had a couple of Audi 100's a Saab 9000 Carlson then a Volvo 850 Estate a real 'dog' of a car spent so much time fixing it I nearly ended up in divorce no2. Out of the three above the Audi's were the only cars totally reliable, the Saab simply fell to pieces and the 850 would start when it felt like it and that was never when it was urinating down, in fact the only car I have had that required the emergency services to be called out no less than 6 times - twice whilst towing the caravan.

I do as much as I can on my Merc finding all the help I need from Forum members whose help I greatly appreciate...

 

[robertjrt]

On my sixteenth birthday I was the proud owner of a BSA Bantan D7, 175cc and my first "car" a three wheeled Frisky, 197cc, two stroke driven on my full M/C license.

I learned to drive (?) with the Post Office, a few lessons on a Morris Minor van and the test in a 3.5 tonne, neither of which had working syncromesh.

Those were the days!

I graduated to heavy metal, 3.5 Rover, Daimler Sovereign, RR, S2, Aston Martin, E type V12, Sovereign Double 6 and when I joined the Motor Trade everything went very strange.

I used to take home PX's, everything from Wartburgs to AC Cobra as long as there was some petrol in it!

To really live in a car, become a driving Instructor. For almost 10 years one car after another was beaten to death, there are only so many Emergency stops a car can take. Three Part Clutch set's regularly appeared on my expenses sheet. The toughest car I had was a three cylinder Dihatsu Charade turbo diesel, 1Lt, bulletproof!

As a stress relief from my students trying to kill me I worked part time driving Hearses, MB S600 stretch, Limos and the Van.(private ambulance)

When I started the Pet Crematorium I had a Renault 5 and an Extra Van, I
then upgraded to a MB C180 and Vito vans. The Renault Van was the best drive ever, it was white, 1400cc, accelerated like a rocket and leaked like a sieve.

100,000 miles, passed every MOT with minor work, rusty as a horseshoe, lived in the rh lane of the M4, started every time, first time and worth £5.

My Lexus 4X4 was very comfortable, did everything it was asked, but, it had no "soul".

Then I bought the S500L from MB Chelsea!

 

[teddycatkin]

DOSCO --the Bedford CA van--brill you could drive around with the side doors open and not a seatbelt in site--we used ours on the milk round so easy to jump in and out of.
great fun if you got angry or heavy handed and slammed the door open past the stops and they slid right off --I think they were nicknamed "Suicide doors" ?

 

[100%Bitch]

You should have known better, the slightest 'gap' and Helen will expose you, politically correct or what:lol::lol::lol:

Who needs a gap?

Or do you mean a gap in the closet door?