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    Goodbye to Old Leo (w201)

    Wife too upset to post (her car) so down to me. We have had the 190 for 5 years, and has served us well, apart from a frontspring, waterpump and tyres its been cheap to maintain and has always gone through MOT without an issue. Just had MOT in jan, all required was 2 tyres. Car has had...
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    Wanted Fuel Relay for 190

    Been having troubles with my relay but to get proper checked/repaired I need a spare to keep car going its the oblong type that says kickdown 4cyl on it and goes behind the battery car is 1989 but think its a 1986 engine 2.0l if anyone has a spare one v.cheap I'd appreciate it.
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    190 Problems with rain

    Apart from rain causing rust, the car has had an on-going issue, that when it rains it starts to splutter and has a couple of times stalled/cut out whilst driving. This got better when I cleaned the fuel pump relay connectors last year, is now starting to get worse and only in the wet/rain...
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    190e starting to over heat

    when in slow traffic, car will go upto the max line of 120temp then traffic starts moving, the fan does not appear to be kicking in, have change thermostat and tested it recently, any ideas
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    Mercedes 190e Rear windows dont work

    until a few days ago the back left window was ok, the other side stopped few months ago, but now neither will work on any control switch. What I want to know is there a separate fuse for the rear windows, I don't think so but would like to double check, and also any ideas on how to resolve.
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    Exhaust Blowing At Joins.. Help

    note not a MB, but a Jeep;) Few months ago I replaced the backbox and cat for new ones (ebay), the cat is the type where the pipes slide into it and has A clamp on each end. Have noticed recently that where the front pipe and cat join, it is blowing quite a bit from round the top of the...
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    Keep Fit & Stretching For Over 38's

    My children have been going to karate for a while now, and I thought I would have a go with intension of keep fit and keep children interested. I am now 43 and haven't done any exercise since I was a kid, and I have now realized that my amount of flexabilty is really bad especially in the...
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    Any Access 2007 Guru's Help Needed

    I am trying to put a conditional format on Outstanding to change colour if overdue tried following expressions: [Invoicedate]+31 < date() AND [Outstanding] > 0 ([Invoicedate]+31 < date()) AND ([Outstanding] > 0) dosent work but if do them seperate ie : [Invoicedate]+31 < date() -...
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    New Car!

    Well with insurance so high in my area, I have found the cheapest vehicles to insure for some strange reason are 4x4, so I have picked up one really cheap with MOT till Sep and Tax till May, and insurance is half the amount it would be for any other car, keeps my NCB going... I know your all...
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    Motor Trade Insurance

    With the increasing cost of normal insurance I was thinking of getting motor trade insurance. Does anyone have it and what are the conditions, I generally have at least 2 cars, and buy and sell 1 car per year, but might buy a 3rd car. Is there a certain amount of cars you need to sell in a...
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    How Rads Are Made

    How It's Made - Car Radiators - Video if not seen before, it's quite interesting
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    funny email conversation

    made me laugh "It's like twitter. Except we charge people to use it."
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    My Rust Repair Attempt

    On wifes 190, the rear arch body kit was very loose, and before any kids nicked it it, I popped it off or rather it fell off in my hands, see below pictures of what was left and my attempts to repair. I realise most people would say scrap the car or replace whole side but money is very tight...
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    My New Car 1992 2.3i Auto 4WS

    81,283 miles, White, 3 Owners. Front electric windows, Cloth seat trim, Body coloured bumpers, Drivers airbag, Cloth upholstery, Colour coding - Body, Cruise control, Electric mirrors, Power assisted steering, Sports seats, Sunroof Picking this up next week, taken for test drive everything is...
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    Advice needed

    I'm looking into getting a old Honda car for complete change, seen one I like, prelude 93' 2.3i but this is what the guy says about it : has slight cam tap, the engine runs great, the knock is at the top but we haven't wanted to keep it running until problem gets solved, it has low oil...
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    Birthday Present

    My lovely wife has got me a Super Car Thrill day for my birthday Which ones of these cars would you recomend and why, only thing to note is that I havent drove a manual car since passing my test must say that I do fancy the lambo
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    Insurance Problems!

    Wifes 190 is due for new insurance in a few days, the way we do the insurance is me as Main driver with 3yr NCB and wife as Named 0yr NCB I have Classic Insurance on the Jag. insurance is way to high for wife on car byself, been getting quotes from 410 - 650+ , but when I goto buy they all...
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    Mercedes 190 Grill

    some little toe rag has pulled the chrome strip of the grill doe's anyone have one lying around in back of there garage
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    W124 Works & My Jag

    hehe I've had Ian working on my jag again, I've had a noisy diff for a while which has been getting worse, so after a lot of research 80% of the time it's caused by the output shaft bearings... So yesterday / today I've been down at garage to get them changed, the job in itself is not to...
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    MOT today

    Took the jag for it's first MOT with me today! She passed with a couple of advisories nothing major, the funny thing is, I was worried about emission's but when they put it on the machine for testing, it came up as a non-cat test, so she flew through.:D but the car is a 1992 J reg, and does...
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