Joderest
Active Member
I have been using this site for a couple of months, and never did an introduction, hope I will be forgiven.
I am past free prescription age. Married, two girls, one just learning to drive. I class myself as an old school mechanic, meaning I hate electronics, but can spanner weld quite happily.
For past 20 odd years have run Landrovers Discovery's, first was a 200tdi, then a 300 TDI then a TD5. I loved them all, even with water ingress, sensor fails, oil leaks, bits falling off. TD5 drove me mad for a couple of years with leaking air from suspension, found it after changing rear air bags, overhauling compressor etc etc, it was a valve that only leaked in a certain position, changed and cured.
We were going to buy a 2004 Discovery 3, but after a bit of reading and talking to other owners, we did not buy it. My wifes love is horses, and she tows a trailer with two on board, so we started looking at Shogun's and others. The ML came out of the blue. Same towing range we needed, and it was such low mileage. Anyway, it was a long way from home, so spent a week looking at ones nearer home, they were very badly cared for high mileage vehicles, and it sort of put me off Mercedes. But I was talked into going to see the low mileage one, so spent a day going, glad I did, restored my faith in Mercedes, it was/is pristine condition.
It's caused a few problems, all minor and not really vehicles fault.
Anyway, that's how I arrived at this forum. I will always try and help others, I work for an organisation that has white cars with blue lights on top( not allowed to say who on a public domain)
I am past free prescription age. Married, two girls, one just learning to drive. I class myself as an old school mechanic, meaning I hate electronics, but can spanner weld quite happily.
For past 20 odd years have run Landrovers Discovery's, first was a 200tdi, then a 300 TDI then a TD5. I loved them all, even with water ingress, sensor fails, oil leaks, bits falling off. TD5 drove me mad for a couple of years with leaking air from suspension, found it after changing rear air bags, overhauling compressor etc etc, it was a valve that only leaked in a certain position, changed and cured.
We were going to buy a 2004 Discovery 3, but after a bit of reading and talking to other owners, we did not buy it. My wifes love is horses, and she tows a trailer with two on board, so we started looking at Shogun's and others. The ML came out of the blue. Same towing range we needed, and it was such low mileage. Anyway, it was a long way from home, so spent a week looking at ones nearer home, they were very badly cared for high mileage vehicles, and it sort of put me off Mercedes. But I was talked into going to see the low mileage one, so spent a day going, glad I did, restored my faith in Mercedes, it was/is pristine condition.
It's caused a few problems, all minor and not really vehicles fault.
Anyway, that's how I arrived at this forum. I will always try and help others, I work for an organisation that has white cars with blue lights on top( not allowed to say who on a public domain)
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