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Today I did what MB calls a B service, I also decided to take apart the cabin filter and air filter boxes and gave them a good clean and removed 5yrs worth of muck and gave it a quick hoover, degreased the engine bay (spend 15 mins on it so not super job) and put it back together I also...

My new ATE brake pads for rear brakes came without the silver (after cleaning) sheet. Is this necessary. It is less than 1mm thick. Old brake pad with sheet and new ate one without

I put on my new ATE brake discs and pads today on my R129 (well NSR, OSR tomorrow) A few years ago some one with eagle eyes had spotted when I posted a picture of my brake discs that one of my pistons was not working. Tested the Caliper today and only 1 side is working video'd it Should I...

My driver side seat had a worn bolster which started as a small patch 6/7 years ago and ended up being really ugly. About 2 years ago the seat base started to get a tear or 2. And to top it all the original floor mat has a small hole it in (heel position) so I decided to tackle it 1) on eBay I...

My drivers side seat on my R129 started to wear out a few years ago on the bolster (temporary fixed it with MastaPlasta but the colour was all wrong and it just annoyed me) Last summer the perforated bottom seat cover started to split. I found a back seat slab in the US and as it is their...

Hi For quite a few years my red LED has not worked on the rear view mirror (part of the IR sensor that sits underneath it) I have taken it apart and the led bulb holder looks pretty damaged I have thought about soldering the wires straight onto the board but decided against it as i think i...

My wife has been driving my r129 this week for school run as her car is in the garage for some TLC. Today she rang me to say the brake handle had broken off but hand brake was off. I said good so when you get to the school do not put the handbrake on. But 20 mins later another message...

It is for the gearbox. Why so restrictive. We can open up everything else but this is workshop only?

Hi Driver side seat control buttons were loose at the bottom and I took the door panel off to investigate. 2 out of 3 screws are broken (plastic attachment has broken off) my dirty fingers are pointing at them I can do an ugly fix and drill through the door panel and use a longer screw but...

Bit the bullet and purchased a Pioneer 1 din Carplay unit with fold out screen on Sunday and should arrive in the next few days. I have been using Carplay in other cars and really like using it and got fed up having with having to use my iPhone for navigation. The screen will block the...

My Coolant was changed in 2007 when I purchased the car and again in 2017 (by MB in MK and Indie respectively) I am not sure if 10yr interval is the correct one. I am trying to do the simple maintenance stuff like (oil, filters, brake fluid, spark plugs etc and disc brakes/pads) but will defer...

I recently purchased a cheap small car for the station run (trying to preserve the R129 a little bit, although it has already done 157k miles so not preserving very much) and noticed the wiper arms of this little run around were a bit rusty and had flaked paint etc. So I cleaned that up and...

Usually park the car in the garage but since COVID hit had to use it to store some boxes and stuff for work (while working from home). Did not want the new soft top to be exposed to the deluge of rain forecast this weekend so bought a relatively cheap car cover on eBay and managed to fit it the...

Spotted a really nice r107 today in our village. Thought I share

Finally about 3 years after first cracks started to appear in the plastic windows the car went off for a new soft top, the windows were kind of soft (but split in the middle) when I last used it but now complete yellow and rock hard. It was due in last year in March 2020 but we know what...

It is time for the annual home service and even though I have only driven about 2k miles this year it is time for the B service Ordered most filters/oil etc from ECP and even got the Bosch windscreen wipers that fit but I thought I would give MB MK a call and get some original windscreen and...

I usually commute to London for work by train but since March I have been WFH and on the rare occasions I do travel to London I drive in. We have a nice loading bay in our office but had to go to a meeting in Holland park and used justpark.com to book some local parking, usually they use...

Had to go to the office in central london on Friday and decided to take the r129 and to save on parking asked the security guards if I could park in the loading bay. Shame another car was already parked up as I would have insisted on using the turntable 😀