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Due to assisting 2 sons to buy cars over the last few weeks, and then one for myself, I've managed to max out my most pleasurable hobby quite well recently. However it wasn't always a pleasurable experience of course, and it's fair to say that Mercedes were squarely at the bottom of the pile...

My son is after a new C200, preferably petrol and manual in AMG spec. Initial enquiries suggest nothing available this side of October. Is anyone aware of any dealer stocks? He'd also consider a CLA and these do seem more readily available, but the manual versions all look low powered. Has...

Disaster struck the day before good Friday, my pristine 6 month old CLS was hit from behind quite severely, but an old MG Rover 75. A hell of a bang, but no one injured, so could always be worse. The thoughts of having to declare an accident for the next 5 years, every time I now renew my...

Now the warmer weather's arrived and my 6 month old CLS has 6K on it, the mpg has become nothing short of amazing! Even shortish trips of 20 miles are returning over 50 mpg and yesterday I did a 180 mile return trip to Kegworth and even with plenty of stop start on the M1 and struggling to keep...

For some unknown reason, whenever I start my car, the DAB radio switches to 'Absolute Radio'. I always listen to Radio 2, and up until a couple of days ago, it would always boot up on Radio 2. Now it decides to retune itself to Absolute for some reason! I've gone through the menus but can't...

Picked up the new CLS250 yesterday. Shame to see the ML350 go, as it's been one of the best cars I've ever had, hence I kept it for longer than normal, so was time for a change. First impressions after 24 hours:- The Good - Different, Eye Catching, Fabulous Ride/Handling combo, great...

Just collected my new CLS 250 today, but had to make do with Becker not Command. Not a problem I thought as we had it in my wife's B, and I liked the ability to add speed cameras etc. I'm sure that she had 'night maps' in hers, but I can't seem to access any in my new CLS. The maps have...

So the 2010 Approved Used S Class we bought 3 weeks ago has been rejected (successfully). Shame, as it was (on the face of it) a superb example, having turned my head totally, with its cream leather, against the black AMG pack trimmings, and the feel good/like a millionaire/factor every time...

The 3 year old, 46K miles, S350CDI BlueEfficiency we took delivery of 2 weeks ago, has been back in the dealers more time than we've had it so far. On 3 separate occasions (out of about 6 days of use), it seemingly went into some sort of limp mode, although no warning lights came on. The...

I've recently taken delivery of a 2010 S221 with NTG 3.5, and the dealer updated the Command with "2013 V9.0" prior to delivery. In fact they left the 3 DVD update pack in the glove box. As I was searching the forum, I came across a few posts about the engineering menus/secret menus on...

Caught my wife at an opportune moment whilst she was busy at work yesterday and somehow managed to get her to agree to let me swap her 12 reg new B180 for a 10 reg S350cdi with AMG pack! Don't think she appreciates yet how big the S Class is however she does feel at home driving my ML. Problems...

Have observed the ever decreasing cost of leasing an SLK over the last few months, I decided to make a serious enquiries when they got as low as 225 plus vat over 2 years at Frontier. Despite a web enquiry a week ago and a phone call today, they haven't been back with an offer. I recently spoke...

Of course we picked a great moment to try and drive to the S of France what with all the snow, but worse than that car trouble as well. Not expecting snow, using the B and its 50+ mpg seemed the best option for a 2,000 mile round trip to Banyuls Sur Mer rather than the ML. The B did well...

After 18,000 miles, the rear tyres on my ML350CDI are very near the limit. Surprisingly the fronts still seem to have about 4mm or so. OEM are the PZeros (265/45/20). Anyone experience of other choices on a W164? (Conts and Dunlop seem to be the only sensible options for 20" rims)

My lucky day, the wife decided to crash test the Crossfire, fortunately she survived to tell the tale. She was driving up the A18 out of Scunthorpe after a shopping trip this afternoon, and came across the freak thunderstorm that passed through the area. At the time she was doing 65-70...

Wife's new B180CDI Sport 7 Speed Auto just arrived. Not too many options, just heated seats, Media/6 dics, and eBay sourced integrated Becker MapPilot. The sports spec is good though with Xenons, Artico, reversing camara, and of course the safety stuff like Attention Assist and Collision radar...

Anyone any ownership experiences of one of these new B's yet? We're still waiting for my wife's to arrive, due in a a week or two. Despite the press advice, she insisted on sticking with the 18's and runflats/sports suspension etc. has anyone put some miles under their belt yet on the Sports...

I've been enjoying my ML350 Grand Edition for 10 months now, but continue to be frustrated by one issue that the usually ok Grimsby dealership seem to be incapable of sorting. In part this seems to be due to a 'design fault', but as seems to be common with dealers of all flavours, they just...

After over 2 years with her current B180CDI CVT, my wife has sweet talked me into treating her to a £4K deposit, so that she can switch to a new model B180CDI 7 Speed dual clutch auto. We have the chance of a factory order for April delivery. She would have had white, but what with my white...

Thule mount adaptor kit for roof bars for W212 E Class Saloon £10 plus postage costs