What Have You Done To Your Merc Today?

A.J.

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I placed one of those moisture absorbing containers in the cargo area of my old Triumph estate 4 days ago, container is dry, inside windows wet with moisture :confused: Last time I buy one of these from the pound shop for 50p :(

Were they having a sale ?? :D
 

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Managed to drop a load of coins between the centre console and the seat! Now I'm stressed that they'll make their way somewhere to do some damage...
Time for the trusty coat hanger and torch to be back in action :D
 

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On a roll after the CT yesterday, so when the piggy back fuse thing arrived in the post, I decided to finally connect up the dash cam which has been waiting power for about ten days. In between showers I thought just open up the front fuse box connect the fuse holder to the wire I'd ran in but the bullet connector was a different size.
Don't really like crimped connectors so I stripped one down to the metal crimped, soldered it and covered it with a bit of heatshrink.
Well pleased with myself off I trotted, connected it up to fuse 47 cigar lighter with a new 2 Amp fuse, got in switched the ignition on, camera comes on and then 10 seconds later turns off, same again a second time. Heavens then opened again so I retreated to organise the forces to attack this new tech another day (maybe even read the instructions again).
 

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On a roll after the CT yesterday, so when the piggy back fuse thing arrived in the post, I decided to finally connect up the dash cam which has been waiting power for about ten days. In between showers I thought just open up the front fuse box connect the fuse holder to the wire I'd ran in but the bullet connector was a different size.
Don't really like crimped connectors so I stripped one down to the metal crimped, soldered it and covered it with a bit of heatshrink.
Well pleased with myself off I trotted, connected it up to fuse 47 cigar lighter with a new 2 Amp fuse, got in switched the ignition on, camera comes on and then 10 seconds later turns off, same again a second time. Heavens then opened again so I retreated to organise the forces to attack this new tech another day (maybe even read the instructions again).
Did the camera actually go off or just turn off the screen. My Nextbase has a 20 second delay set before the screen goes blank but the camera is still recording.
 

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That’s always worth a smug smile all day :)

The only down side of an MOT pass with no advisories is that I was trying to convince my wife about an update to a W205, this has gone against me a little ! :rolleyes::(
 

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Thanks. You could well be right, obviously someone who has defeated the technology perhaps by reading the instructions.:):):)
Must get the disc out and find out.:rolleyes:
 

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I did the same :rolleyes: fell between the seat rail and the carpet, couldn't get them out, then had a brain wave, got one of those flexible rulers, worked a treat, as it bends, shoved the ruler down the top of the rail and shoved the coins out, job
done! :D

Now why didn't I think of that? Goes looking for one of the kids rulers....
 

alexanderfoti

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That's a long time in the bodyshop. Are they wonderfully improved by their long period of captivity? Before and after photos would be interesting.

One was very low priority and we both forgot about it TBH! (dont worry, not a customer car!). The R230 was getting its bumpers blended in. Ill grab some nice pics when it eventually stops raning! Argh
 

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Not physically done anything as i am currently in espanol but finally found out when my refurbed TCU will be returned, the day after i get back :mad: , im truly annoyed as this was supposed to be a 2 day turn around which was sent for repair 4 days before i went away with the idea it being ready to refit when i returned home , so its taken 11 days assuming it 'does' arrive on tuesday , i am not hopeful :confused:
 
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