Recent content by SimonsMerc

Deposit taken, car sold — before I even got the chance to put proper photos up! Sorry to all those that showed interest. It’s gone to an enthusiast that I feel will take care of it :)

Apologies to all those waiting for photos (I didn’t realise there would be this much interest!). I will reply to all PMs, but unfortunately I wasn’t able to take photos today. It was raining heavily until quite late here in London, and I need either a wheelchair or crutches to get outside...

Hi folks, We are selling our E Class estate. The car is simply superb; we are only selling it as our eldest has gone off to University and I am finally being allowed to get a cabriolet ;-) Next week we will be cleaning up the car to take photos, but I thought I would post up to see if there...

Banned for not having been banned for months.

Banned for bad poetry. Darned Vogons.

Banned for mentioning the French...

Indeed, likely just a battery on its way out. You are very fortunate to have a W210 with bodywork in good condition! When mine went, it was falling apart...

Banned because I haven't banned anyone for a while!

I thought it was worth sharing the review I've just written for Mobile Tyre Fitting High Wycombe & Watford | Mobile Tyres 2 U Ltd, with whom I was very impressed. I've always been wary of mobile tyre fitters (hell of any tyre fitters!), but these guys have won me over -- anyone in NW London or...

It's missing AT. Should read AM A T1T ;-)

If I could afford it, I'd have absolutely kept the Discovery too ;-). The thing is, it was a superb car while *in* the mountains, but the Merc is so much better on the motorway. Ideally I'd drive there in the Merc, then swap over to the Disco I keep there for the trip. Except that if I could...

We're going skiing twice this season, one of them in mid-February when the snow can be quite severe. Last year we went in a LandRover Discovery, which was on all terrain tyres (General Grabber AT, they have a snowflake on the side), and it was superb. The driving conditions were really tough...

Oh, and the reason I stuck with winter tyres on the existing wheels was actually the other half, who said "didn't you convince me to agree to buy a more expensive car because it has bigger nicer wheels? And now you want me to drive half the year on smaller uglier wheels??!?!" :-)

To finish up this thread, I ended up buying some tyres off ebay -- brand new but much cheaper than blackcircles etc. They were Vredestein Wintrac Xtreme Winter Snow Tyres, price delivered was: 2x245/40/18 97W XL - £276 2x265/35/18 97W XL - £290 The fronts are still available here if anyone is...

Thank you st13phil :-)