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When I change the head-unit in my W202 the new one will have DAB and needs it's own antenna which comes with a booster, all this is fine and I can deal with it no problem, have done ICE installs many times over the years. I know the car has a rear screen antenna with it's own amp which I don't...

I don't use cheap tyres on any of my cars, not with the way I drive.

Not really planning on track days, it'll be a road car but I can always upgrade again in the future if need be, the car will be getting more power and a manual gearbox eventually.

It's a W210 so not as fancy as the W211.

Got my new to me '98 W202 C240 home and I'm ready to start interfering with her, I have seen plenty of posts saying the C43 and E55 front brakes are the same and are interchangeable, but also seen that facelift and pre face lift W210 E55 brakes are different AND of course mine isn't a C43, it's...

They normally have the standard model number with a zero on the end and the AMG badge if its the trim package, the AMG tuned cars don't have the zero, E55, E63 etc so anyone who knows will know and any one who doesn't wont care unless it's someone who likes to judge a person by how much they...

What I'm saying is that there will be no "custom" AMG electric motors in the same way there used to be specific AMG engines, it'll be the same platform as all the other models maybe with an dual motors on one axle and a single on the other rather than two singles and some different software and...

Once they go electric the AMG brand is going to become a styling package only anyway so it doesn't matter much either way any more I reckon.

I'm going to use the E55 computer, if it doesn't work I can swap the whole loom over if I have to but I suspect it won't need that much, I have a W202 with the smart key so might have to swap the ignition and some bits. It'll be fine, it can't be that difficult to sort out but there's always...

Yeah, other than the wheels and lowering it it should look fairly stock I hope.

It's not a C43, just a C240 so I wont be putting any of the AMG badges or numbers on it.

Hi guys, i have a rusty W210 E55 estate, I knew it was rusty when i bought it and it was cheap but I wanted to gas about in it for a bit before stripping it for parts to fit to a W202, have driven it daily for over three years and it's been fine until a rear levelling strut has come away at the...

Do you never go over 50? I have never seen better than 26mpg average on my daily driven E55 on any journey and my overall average is 19.something. 35mpg is better than Mercedes quote for purely open road driving let alone a whole journey average.

Yeah I accept that there are many that will be rusty, but finding a clean shell is a LOT easier if you don't care what spec and trim level it is, i wish mine was economically worth saving but with the amount of work that needs doing and that fact that it has over a quarter of a million miles on...

Yeah I had been told the brakes are the same, possibly need to source a diff or alter the cradle to accept the bigger E55 one but I'd want to add an LSD anyway, not sure about the gearbox yet, very tempted to put a six speed manual in it as I've seen a few done on the You Tubes now and if I pick...

Hi all, hoping to pick some expert brains, I am wondering what changes (if any) were made to the W202s shell to fit the AMG parts? I have a slowly decomposing E55 estate which is complete but would need more spending on it than it would cost to just buy a clean lower mileage one so rather than...

If you check how it works you'll discover the system actually powers up the brakes hydraulics when it detects you lift you foot suddenly off the throttle so that by the time you hit the brake pedal it's already at full power, the more modern cars with radar and other sensors also incorporate...

Some people two foot their autos i've heard it before, loading up the torque converter on the brakes used to be our version of launch control! Personally i wouldn't bother in any Merc these days, they started fitting the brake assist as standard in the mid 90s and it already pumps up the system...

Even the AMG e class cars are not really "sporty" IMO, to big and lardy to feel sporty, if your divers seat weighs more than you do your car is never going to be sporty! ;)

Mercedes buyers have preferred autos for years, possibly originally because the manual gearboxes weren't great, the kind of people who want a manual Mercedes usually buy a BMW. In my youth I converted a few "auto only" cars to manual and it makes a massive difference to the feel of the car...