Recent content by scouseman

Their website lists a large list of known OEM brands, I went for ATE and cleverly the order acknowledgement doesnt show what I actually ordered, this Stark substitution is a deliberate piece of profiterring disguised as them doing you a favour..bunch of crooks basically which I sadly fell for...

I need some rear brake components for my Merc E350, did the usual research on which brands are used by Mercedes themselves and then looked for an on-line seller. I came upon "buycarparts.co.uk", they showed an excellent choice of products from the best German OEM's, free delivery etc and...

Hi, its been a while since I've posted on here but thought I would mention my experience today related to the dreaded AMG wheel corrosion. My last experience with seeking help from Mercedes UK in relation to what was in my view excessive corrosion on alloys was back in 2010 when my just out of...

When my car was being serviced yesterday i was told that there was a recall to replace a wiring loom on the car. They then called me again and said that all of the injectors would also be changed due to a related recall. Two friends have high level Audi diesels both of which have suffered...

Ive owned my 220 for around 6 months and have never managed to get a reliable connection with the iPhone - it pairs OK, downloads the phone book but calls are eratic, dont connect correctly, transfer to the handset instead of the car etc..I gave up in the end after Mercedes told me "sorry guv...

I had a 2.2 in 2007 for a few months, handling was excellent, performance strong with reasonable but not great economy. It lacked room though, had hard seats and some nasty plastic trim but was well put together, the worst failing was the lack of auto (but thats fixed now) and horrific...

I changed the pads and front disks on my e270, took about 2 and a half hours in total but follow the guide on disabling and re-enabling the pressure brake system, I found a useful guide on one of the US forums, e320 I think. Cost of the parts from a MB dealer was about £200 inc VAT. No special...

Used them on many occasions for everthing from the Merc to a 911, always arrive on time, always do a good job (and get the tyre pressures right) never had a problem with balancing and to top it all i always found them the cheapest for the outfits that visit you and very polite with it. Top service.

After being told at the last service that my pads and discs are on the way out and not wanting to pay dealer prices to get them changed I decided to have a go myself. After one aborted attempt to order the pads from an Indie supplier I finally bought some last week from a Mercedes dealer...

Well I finally bottled out today after checking the thickness of the pads again and went to a Mercedes dealer and bought a set of pads from them. Holiday or not waiting almost a month to get something that was apparently in stock isn't very helpful. Thanks again for the advice guys. Cheers Keith

I would try again, I extended for two years (on top of the dealer supplied one year) and it cost £1500 which wasnt bad value. Having said that its not perfect, software glitches are classified as "adjustment" believe it or not and aren't covered, so when my wipers stopped working I had to pay to...

Thats good but still no sign of my stuff or any replies to my emails! cheers Keith

Thanks but I tried that email address last week with no response and as I dont have enough postings yet I cant PM Nick. cheers Keith

Sonax Clearview, give it a try. You can find it online at a reasonable price about £4.50 i recall), the dont use much due to the dilution ratio and in this cold weather down to minus 8 here, not once did I have frozen washers plus the screen stays nice and clean. After using this I wouldnt touch...

Hi, has anybody got a way to get hold of Nick to follow up on an order that I placed with him at the beginning of December? Emails haven't resulted in a response (maybe due to Christmas?) and before I order some pads from another supplier just want to give Nick a final try. thanks Keith