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The lease is up on my W212 at the end of August and I'm handing the car back a month early to make way for the new one. BCA are picking the car up and, at no extra cost, I've an inspection booked on 21st July where they will tell me what they charges they'll make for wear and tear and then...

Thanks to Olly for fitting the smartTOP module to the SL55 today. This was the 2nd attempt as first one was faulty. Also had orange engine light come on the way down which after being put on the STAR system was the Pressure Sensor B28. Olly thinks it could be the belt slipping. As it had a new...

Hi All Thinking about these wheels for my car. Seem to be UK Based, and very competitively priced. Not some cheap Jap Import from an untrusted seller on Ebay. Opinions and experience please. Thanks Calibre CC-R Hyper Silver 19" WIDER REAR Alloy Wheels - Wheelbase

New to the forum and just purchased a new C63s Premium. Diamond White, Black Wheels, Sports Exhaust plus a few more options. Thought I'd share my buying experience. It might help others. List price on the MB website was £75,500. Went to three new car dealers, 2xStratstone (Nottingham and...

I'm fairly competent with a spanner but without easy access to a ramp and a trip to Le Mans coming up, I had to turn to a garage to help me on a few jobs. Having not taken my W140 to a specialist before, I thought I'd share my experience of Wayne Gates. I had spoken to Terry on the phone and...

Having owned our little MB for only about 7-8 months ive not had the pleasure of visiting a main dealer until today. Over the months ive read many horror stories on here about how various things have gone wrong, or the appalling service people have recieved, so had mixed thoughts but decided to...

Anyone going? Will be there on the Wednesday 22nd Exclusive to Merc the full complex this year! :bannana:

My brand new E350 Night Edition Estate in Polar White was sitting outside the showroom at Robinsons in Norwich and looked beautiful with the contrasting black trim and privacy glass yesterday. The handover went well and eventually I was left with the car. Started it up and it was immediately...

Having owned a Mercedes for 4 yrs now and paying the exhorbitant Dealer prices for service, under the belief that, should you need, it the Mobilo service is of the quality you would expect from Mercedes. My new to me, 6 month old c220 today kept going to limp mode. Dealer advised to ring Mobilo...

Friends are considering a 5 year old Lexus GS 450H as a replacement for a 15 year old 5 Series 3.0 l saloon that has now passed 200,000 miles. They go to Scotland, France and other parts of Europe regularly including down to Greece and want a car that is comfortable, reliable, can cruise at...

Ordered 2 new rears on Sunday morning Delivered Wednesday morning (from Germany iirc) Hankook EVO2 S1 K117's 255/35/18's at £91 each They're on (not happy about the muppets I decided to try yesterday as my usual place had to close unexpectedly though) but look and feel fine. I used...

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A good friend of mine who I met back in the days when we had Subaru SVX's is thinking of changing his Mazda MX5 for a facelift SLK. I have suggested he joins this forum to get advice but just in case he doesn't are there any owners who could offer any advice regarding running costs, spec etc.

I changed my CLK320CDI last year for an E350Bluetec. I like the E, it is a nice car but as the majority of the time I am the only one in the car I don't really need such a big car. I am comfortable with the car when it is motoring but when parking it and putting it in the garage you are aware of...

Today I sold my my S500, what a beautiful car it was, it had every feature under the sun and was lovley but drive but god dam the ABC mechanism on the car is the absoultley £$£"" thing ever. It just had a mind of its own about when it would decide to brake. I would go to work everything would...

Hi everyone, I thought you would be interested in knowing my experience at Silverstone circuit today (Tuesday 13th October 15) with the AMG team. I was delighted to be able to drive 2 x different cars and this racing experience is my very first one ever with a very skilled female driving...

Following on from my recent thread about replacing the Steering Wheel on my 2012 C250 CDI Sport+ Coupe - I was directed to Royal Steering Wheels by Forum Member KennyN. The story starts with a number of e-mails to qualify my requirements with Jack, the owner. I settle for a slightly...

Hi I ordered a new E250 Cabrio at MB Bury St Edmunds on 6 April, paid £1000 deposit and was told delivery would be in 12 weeks, but they'd let me know when they had the "production date". After 4 weeks I called for an update. The update was MB had stopped production of the E250, but they...

Has anyone attended one of these by invitation only, Mercedes VIP showroom events? Supposedly there are EXTRA contributions to be had over and above what normally is available. Anyone find they got a particularly good deal? I'm assuming they are possibly on cars they already have in group...