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My local Shell garage is selling diesel at 48 p per litre. It was 52p the other day. It is in Pretoria!!!!!

Hmmmm. Depreciation. W210 E300td estate elegance. On the road at £43500 or so with extras like heated seats (a total waste of money: you need to replace a seat pad every two years at c. £400), leather etc. Traded in at 16,500 miles for c. £27500. Bought by us and rear seats added, total £30k...

Have you looked behind the rubbers on the window surrounds of the doors? The tops in particular seem to go. Ours is the same age as yours, and is fairly bad there. The water pump on ours went, the plastic impeller freewheeling rather than making the water go round. Ours only has 116k up. I...

Air France are cheap from SA, but unreliable. Crews yukky. Some of the new gulf airlines are doing well too, although some are not! The EU and the CAA have lists of perceived unsafe airlines. You haven't lived until you have seen some of the airliners serving in Africa or the Former Soviet...

I find my 126 good in hot weather, and is both durable and reliable. And you can get it in rauchsilber with matching leather. No contest..............but hang on what about those sports cars? SL's are they? Some quite nice, but not those pagoda things. It all depends if you are looking for a toy...

Not sure about this, but you could possibly change fuel without knowing. It depends on your supplier's source? I suspect Tesco go looking for bargains, for example. Equally they may just take long term contracts with suppliers who themselves do the bargain hunting. Either way batches could vary...

There is a thread on servicing the duo valves. It looks straightforward. Good luck!

They are said to be MB approved repairers. They are also approved by More Than (aka Royal Sun Alliance) My car is on its way there after Sunday's smash. Sounds encouraging, thank you.

We bought our w210 estate second hand in 1999. It was 10 months old with 16.5 k miles up. On the road price new was c. £42.5k. It had been traded in for c. £27.5k. Bomb proof residuals ? NO!!!!!!

You won't believe this! It was a nice day yesterday, and I took the car up to the (scenic) area where the overheating first occurred, thinking it would be a good final test. Everything fine. On the way back I turned right into a side street, and a huge white van (VW Crafter DTI) travelling...

Mine is a 300td. It looks as if I overpaid! :doh:

My laptop is 8 years old, but no 9 pin adaptor. I will explore the PCMCIA card solution. Thank you!!!

There is too much PC pussyfooting around paedophilia. In my professional life I was given anti paedophilia work, and my team took a number of initiatives to combat it. I probably have more experience of it in a professional context than any of you. By all means hammer paedophiles, but that does...

Victory Hi all. Thank you all for your advice and support. It has saved me a lot of money. The Blackburn dealer misdiagnosed the problem as the viscous fan initially. When that did not do the job he diagnosed the cylinder head at a cost of between £1600 and £3500, plus of course the viscous...

It is no consolation I know, but if anything the situation in Pretoria is as bad. My 500 SE (a bit shorter wheel base then the 500SE) easily grounds. The bumps there are often even more vicious than round here. The marks on the roads after the bumps tell their own story.

As noted just above I had a rear box fitted at Kwikfit in April 2004, to replace the original, which had lasted 5 years. It failed within a year and was replaced without fuss. The mount had to be welded, but that seems to happen to MB ones too. On balance it seems as good as the MB one, but much...

Just had some expensive work done at Manchester MB Smart, with 33% discount on labour (4 hours). It actually took twice the time they had estimated too. The undiscounted hourly rate was £95. So effectively I paid c. £32 an hour. The basic rate was quite a lot less than the (Stratstone owned)...

. Finally got the car back. (Only 7 weeks!) The cost was £190 inc VAT in April 2004. It is still on the car. Allowing for the warranty replacement, it bids fair to last as long as the MB original, which lasted 5 years.

Welcome to the W210 wreck club! The same thoughts run through my mind. Bomb proof residuals? Pah!!!!!!!