Recent content by classcchap

The time I turned down a ~10yo e-type - for £200. Mind you, £200 was a lot of money 1980. It was wasn’t it? a lot of money - £200 - please say it was.

Yes, it does seem so doesn’t it. The question is nothing to do with the screen washer per se, it is about competence in small things and implication for larger. See Matthew 25: 14-30.

Well yes .. but life can also be a bowl of flowers. Where are you going with this?

Quite so .. and sometimes it can be full to overflowing.

Thanks for that and no, the bill does not include screen wash. Conclusion is MB do not include fluid top-up as matter of course - and they aspire to a prestige marque .. hmm bit Mickey Mouse if you ask me.

Hi,hitech My question is a slightly more nuanced than this, put plainly I’d like to know if Mercedes-Benz W/S manual requires system fluids to be topped up after repair. If the answer is no then I will be getting rid of mine as a matter of urgency - but I do need to know. My dealer, BTW, has...

hi, I need some informed advice about a ‘washer bottle top-up’ issue with my W205. Eight days after paying £72.42 to replace a £0.42 ‘grommet’ to rectify a weak screen-wash problem, my car is prompting me to top-up the washer bottle. Now, I may be expecting to much but I’d have thought the...

Have you tried scanning the cabin with a function generator? this may excite the offending buzz and help you locate it from the safety of your garage. I suggest Audio Function Generator Pro, £2 from the App Store, using iPad via the car audio through Bluetooth.

No. This was a mistake and I do hope the OP does not feel disadvantaged by it. I had a W204 for 5 years and it did not put a foot wrong - excellent car in every way. Shame about 205 though. As a general point, I have similar data for B180. Do you think it would benefit the membership to have...

Oh, and this is what my daughters Qashqai looks like:

In case you’re interested, this is what mine looks like:

The W205 is a lot noisier than W204 - a lot noisier - and there’s no factory approved repair. Take it for a long test drive and listen for a continuous drone - if you’re musically inclined it’s the A below middle C.

Why can’t each country display their military, that would be good wouldn’t it - like Wimbledon but more variety!

Would the larger dimension include the overt military presence at Wimbledon? I find this far more objectionable, what’s all that about?

No, I’ve not read the threads but I do know of the 205 wind-noise issues - can’t say I have that problem though. It’s tempting to think their hearing TCN but TCN really does sound nothing like wind. The vendor offered me ‘sound-proof’ windows but I knew enough to realise that would make...