Recent content by catgate

Thank you rr vandango and Mr ItalianTunedUp for your suggestions. I shall investigate.

Thanks for that Rob. I have a tow bar fitted but it is still on. I must look and see if all the bolts are still there. Although I still have a feeling the water is coming down hill and not up.

I suppose it could be called a boot. What ever it is called it is in reality that space beneath the floor where the spare wheel lives, along with the inevitable attendant string, aerosols, rusty spanners, mould ham sandwiches etc. A couple of weeks ago, when I went looking for a piece of...

Found out what a gatzo is. All I have to do now is master THLIRP, NADGE, SNAT and GRADDLE and the jobs cracked.

a gatzo camera I must now find out what a gatzo is. There was me thinking along the lines of Dame Myra Snuff "A tree is a tree is atree". Oh foolish simple fellow that I am.

Just be aware that you won't be alarted about Truvelo forward faving cameras or SPECS areas. I am not sure where I have been for the last 60 years, but "Truvelo" sounds like an old motorcycle, whilst a "SPECS area" has optical connotations. Would I be better just abandoning the entire...

Well I suppose it is a bit better than my old 190D, and, I suppose, better than my late C220D, (thanks, probably, to the auto 'box) but you must admit that it does have all the elegance and balletic grace of a Chieftain tank!!

Thanks for that. I have already bought, and installed (well O.K. then, stuck it on the window and plugged it in!). It seems to pick things up (even the automatic door control whilst passing Safeway). I was just curious as to what it all meant. I was also interested in your comment re...

This device will detect X,K,Ka,V and S (radar bands ?) and also laser. It will also detect VG-2 (police operated) detection device emanations. I feel that this is enormously comforting, but I would feel infinitely more comfort if I knew just exactly what they all were and how many of them are in...

I find those circular black things with funny patterns on them seem to do very well.

It is no problem, really. All that is needed is to move the steering sideways and put a couple of constant velocity joints into the steering column and then move the steering wheel into the boot.

The following http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....ssPageName=WDVW that I mentioned above supplied a two CD comprehensive "manual" for all the Mercs sold into the American market. A lot of interesting information, but none of it answers my question as to how the intermittant operation of the...

Thats right honourable gentlemanly of you. Unfortunately, once more, I am still working with a steam operated Olympus, and by the time pictures are prepared the whole mess could well have rusted into oblivion! One thing I did find out after I had refitted the thing, and just before I refitted...

Thanks, but unfortunately they seem to be "convensional" That is a very elegant notion, something akin to the front, you think. One thing that puzzles me about this problem is that the sweeping motion stops for a little while at the end of each half cycle. This must mean that the current is...

Having read your words of wisdom I attacked the beast this morning, and removed the wiper motor and co. onto the bench. Unfortunately I found nothing, because I could not get the cover off the top of the 'gearbox', because the 'star' socket screw heads were not compatable with my set of star...