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    Rollover bar deployed on 2005 CLK

    All sorted. Drove to garage. New springs fitted £210. Used a tent peg (my car didn't come with an Allen key) to depress the headrest spring and pushed down the headrests. Much smoother ride at the back end now.
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    Rollover bar deployed on 2005 CLK

    Thanks for that. Final question: should I drive the car or not? Obviously I'd have to take it easy, but is it advisable to drive ten miles to the garage or does it need collecting? The part that is protruding is well clear of the wheel and brakes.
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    Rollover bar deployed on 2005 CLK

    Just had a look and compared both rear wheel wells and there's definitely something protruding into one of them from above, and that something looks distinctly like the edge of a spring. So I'm guessing that's it. I've just read that springs should be replaced in pairs, is that correct?
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    Rollover bar deployed on 2005 CLK

    Thanks for your help. The spring breaking might be a possibility, I've heard creaking from the rear for a little while. My father's E class was creaking for a while before his spring broke, so that might be it. How would I know just by looking if the spring had gone? I'm in Doncaster, South...
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    Rollover bar deployed on 2005 CLK

    Drove the car this morning and almost straight away got a strange sound from the rear, it was almost like the clicking you hear when car panels are cooling down after driving on a hot day, but much deeper and louder and with an echo (whatever it was was in an enclosed but empty void). Every...
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    55 CLK 280 computer displaying double the miles actually driven

    I've owned this car for over a year, and had noticed that the service due/overdue indicator on the dash had been advancing in two day increments instead of one. But I've just noticed, having done a 7 mile journey in 14 minutes, that the car says I've done 14 miles in 28 minutes! Obviously this...
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    Strange CLK coolant warning problem

    55 CLK 280 When driving, a warning symbol of a thermometer dipped in liquid appeared on the display with the text beneath saying "Coolant, check level!" The temperature gauge appeared normal at about 80° and didn't vary, the warning kept appearing and disappearing throughout the journey home...
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    Reserve tank woes

    I'd only been in the traffic jam for about 100 metres, the rest of the 20 miles was on rural roads. Thanks for everyone's comments/suggestions, I'm going to ask about having the sender unit checked.
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    Reserve tank woes

    But that's the point savman, according to the car, driving twenty miles used ALL EIGHT litres in the reserve, which works out at approx 11.5 miles per gallon! I'll not know for sure until I fill the tank and record the mileage but that's a little worse economy than I was expecting, even from...
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    Reserve tank woes

    Thanks for that :) So, am I to understand that my wife's 53 Toyota Avensis can accurately predict the cars range when my (originally) twice as expensive, and younger Merc can't? I realise that all cars are different but are you saying that there's not a fault somewhere when eight litres of...
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    Reserve tank woes

    After owning Toyotas for the last twenty years, I took the plunge and bought a 55 plate CLK 280. I love the car, but in the four weeks I've owned it I've already had a couple of 'faults'. First a cam sensor needed replacing and today, with fuel in the tank and a range of 30 miles showing, it ran...
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