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    [SOLD] W203 Roofbars: Original Mercedes part for C-class - unused

    I bought these as part of the original deal for a now a sadly departed C-Class W203. The only time they've been out of the box is for the photos, so you'd receive them pristine, with security keys, allen key and instruction manual. Find more photos and delivery/collection options in the ebay...
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    Scrapped car re-sold

    Hi. Slightly off-topic for this forum - not ebay but a car aurction - here's the car I flogged to the scrap dealer after it had a full-on diesel runaway last Saturday week: MERZ C220 CDI S . As I post it's at £550. (I no longer have a financial interest in it!)
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    C220 Engine Drama

    Hi. Midnight last night, driving home from Leatherhead, on routine acceleration out of a roundabaout the engine went ape! I've heard of diesel runaway but its quite a shock when it happens. Having knocked it into N I pulled up, put of the hazard warning lights and got out as fast as possible...
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    Parking Brake warning: credit where its due

    I got in the car after a meeting near Portsmouth yesterday afternoon and as soon as the car moved the parking brake warning went off - it's happened before but has been curable by (a) releasing the parking brake (doh!) or (b) stamping on the brake and letting it fly out with some force. This...
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    W203 C220 CDI warm start problem

    Hi, I know, I only pop by when I want something:D Dear Dr MBClub, can you help? Last week I reversed up a steep hill to park, stopped for 5 minutes then found that the engine wouldn't start. It coughed a bit. I let it rest for a minute or so, tried a few more times and it was still the...
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    MS Word wizard?

    Is anyone out there an MS Word wizard? I have a few hundred word files with file names in numerical sequence ie. fred056.doc, fred057.doc, fred058.doc The snag is they all contain a single error that needs to be corrected, so a "find and replace" run on each of them automatically to correct...
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    W203 C220CDi Turbo noise

    The car is my 2005 W203 220CDi with ~75K on the clock and 5000miles since its last Mobil1 A-Service. It's only in the past month whilst driving, that I've noticed a whine from what sounds like the turbo as it winds up and slows down. The noise gradually disappears as the engine warms up. It's...
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    Pie poll

    Start the week as we mean to go on... Feast y'er mince pies on these and imagine how you'd like to dispatch them. I've just had 3 of them 'au naturel' with morning coffee. Excellent. ("They aren't just mince pies..........."). They'd have been even better warm with melting brandy butter:cool...
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    Momentary lapses in mpg - W203 220CDI

    Hi, do you have any ideas why I should experience the following with a W203 C220CDI and what could be done to diagnose/fix it? About 40 miles on the journey from home yesterday I drove along a flat-ish road at around 50mph. The mpg was 44 and rising. After a pause at a set of lights the mpg...
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    C63 - what a gorgeous soundtrack

    Came across this after a rather dirty black one had rumbled past me on the M4 on Weds. Turn up the volume. Drool:D .
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    (Another) Service question

    Hello. The car is about to have its first MB Dealership service under my ownership. Its an "A" service. I've got hold of the oil and convinced them to honour the 15% discount first brought to our attention in January by Gollum:D . I hope its a decent garage, but forewarned and all that. To...
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    Dashboard lighting

    Hi folks, Wanted to turn lights from auto to manually-on late last night. I'd have expected the panel surrounding the switch to be lit, albeit dimly, showing the switch positions/function, but nothing there, just a pit of darkness. In foglights position the orange lamp lit. Are the...
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    Workshop Manual

    I've always had the need to take things apart to see what's going on inside (usually restricted to mechanical and electrical items;) ). As that's not really practical when using the car day-to-day I just want to understand it a little more. Has anyone seen or used these workshop e-manuals and...
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    Partial eclipse 1st August

    If you're interested and near a piece of smoked glass and blue sky around 10am take a look at THIS. (Health warning:Panorama sunroofs won't be dark enough:D )
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    MBClubUK's holiday picture postcards

    Sat spending a few minutes looking at MBClubUK the thought occurred, based on http://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/member.php?u=13812 and on Cloudy Bay's newsletter's pursuit of finding the most unusual places to photograph a bottle of Cloudy Bay (see http://www.cloudybay.co.nz/home_fr.html -...
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    Fuel prices down under (Its not MB and its not UK yet!)

    Just take a look at chart A2 in this link. http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/751635 On Weds a.m. I saw $1.51/litre on the way into work. at the same station it was $1.65 eight hours later. Tonight it had dropped by 2 cents. Its true... every week the petrol prices here in...
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    iPlayer tips and tricks?

    I frequently use the BBC Radio iPlayer by laptop when I'm out of the UK - and excellent it is too. Aussie TV isn't that great, so the icing on the cake would be to have use of the TV iPlayer but right now it spots that I'm out of the country and refuses to play because of legal stuff. Is...
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    C220 hibernation

    Over the past eight weeks the car has been garaged. I'm anticipating, at minimum, to have to (try to) charge the battery. Other than opening the garage door slowly so as not to startle the poor thing, I'd welcome any hints/tips/tricks/gottchas - beyond the stuff in the manual - that I need to...
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    Singapore fling

    Hi, I'll be spending a day and a half free time in Singapore tomorrow/Monday on the way back to Blighty (tell me its warming up ...... please!) Anyway, 10 yrs or so ago I spent a couple of days doing the normal tourist haunts - I just wondered whether someone out there in MB Club-land might have...
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    W203 Wheel corrosion

    Hi. Taking advantage of a day or so's respite from the rain I washed the car this pm. and noticed what appears to be a corrosion fault shown in the photo. If anyone has claimed for this type of problem under warranty I'd be interested to hear. The car is a month shy of its third birthday. Thanks...
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