Recent content by stevieb15

Agree with french, my 500se which I rarely use now is the most incredible piece of automotive engineering.Leather and carpets still like new, starts first time, limited slip diff if you want to hustle it, which it's quite good at, huge boot, chrome and paint work remarkable for its age and 150k+...

I put something very similar from Pioneer into mine 4 years ago, tbh it doesn't really sit well with the car but I'm don't think anything with a screen does in an almost 30 year old cockpit. From a functionality perspective everything is excellent.

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My wife's got a 2003 320 Avantgarde convertible, barely cared for, rust free, repairs bearable, now on 140000 miles, still drives like dream. Nuff said.

I also have a "beast", the SE500, the SL is know as "The Banana"

As I was driving from Storrington to Brighton today on the A283, a 60 mph national speed limit road, a complete knob headess pulled out from the Partridge Green road and proceeded to slow down a stream of traffic travelling at about 55 mph to 30 mph, and kept it that way until Shoreham which is...

Although it's a different product the cost of everything I import from South Africa as a "special" is covered by deposit...even by the corporate credit customers.

Thank you, I'm sure you're going to make a great addition to the forum. Irrespective of your views on DMs 32000 posts I think your 6th post has for me at least created a greater negative characterisation of you. Frankly it's rather like asking to be invited to a party and pissing on the BBQ

Haven't read all the thread and I may have missed the answer already but why a manual. If fuel is your issue buy a Honda/Toyota/VW with a sewing machine motor. Turbo diesels and automatics are made for each other. You've made the right decision in selecting a 2-3 year car if you're going go to...

There is a Volvo Owners Club so someone would probably want it, on that basis anything upto £3000. Personally I'd rather spend much less and make my CE300-24 MOT passable.

For some old reasons to do with our business I've just bought a Saab 9-5 Arc 3 litre TiD estate. 722 miles from first tank, now all the Merc drivers in the family are queuing up to use it, even my wife is leaving the CLK at home tomorrow when she drives to Bristol for her Mums birthday.

The magazine and Mercedes Classic are well worth the monthly subs. I use the forum occasionally, it's not like here, much less busy but good fun irrespective.

I assume fuel tank to be 90 litres or 19.8 gallons, therefore 18 litres is almost 20% which I would have thought an absurdly large "reserve"

You really haven't been here long enough to judge whether or not he has any credibility to lose...as it happens he has and on this occasion brings professional perspective and personal observation to the machinations of the media. I rather suspect you're a troll and are probably either a...

I thought run flat wheels were different to standard and a wheel change was required to change...that's certainly what I was advised on my wife's E34 in the mid 90s. Agree re ride and cost which is why we wanted to change.