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My E280 W211 Estate has been intermittent and I thought I was doing something wrong sometimes. It has stopped working completely now so I figured that it wasn't me and there really is something wrong with it. Seems that this isn't such an unusual problem so I now have an idea of where to look...

Thanks for this. The alarm on my E280 estate went off yesterday when the car was sitting in the drive. I couldn't see any reason for it, but when I got in to drive to the station this morning, the front nearside suspension appears to have collapsed. I guess I'd better give Olly a call.

As I drive about 650 miles per week, almost all on motorways, usually between 70 - 85 mph, should my DPF be pretty clean and I don't need to worry about this then?

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One more thing to try is to make sure you're using the latest Norton package. If you have an older version, say 2010 or 2011 of Norton Internet Security, you can go to the Norton Update Center and update to the latest for free, so long as your subscription is current. This is also a cheap way...

I find the tomtom service pretty flakey all the time. I do about 20k miles every year, mostly on motorways, and it's nice when the live traffic works, but I find that it fails quite often. Sometimes I don't notice, like a couple of weeks ago when it took me straight into 45 minutes of jam on the...

If you had a Nilfisk already, you probably have all the accessories you need, but there's a great deal on at Amazon.co.uk for a Nilfisk Pressure Washer and a bunch of accessories that has just dropped in price to £99.99. Nilfisk C120 3-6 PAD Big Accessory Pressure Washer with 1650W Motor

So Apple have made my original iPod Touch obsolete and, as this app appears to require an iPad2, they are making my iPad redundant too. This is what Sony used to do with their digital cameras, never updating the software that came with them, even when a new version of Windows came about. That's...

I hated it when I first saw it, but then I clicked on the gear icon at the top right and selected "compact" and now it doesn't waste all the space to look nice; It looks pretty much like the old gmail.

My Canon was using ink way too fast until I found the auto-sleep function. It still wakes automatically whenever I want to print, but it snoozes after 30 minutes now and it doesn't clean the heads periodically when it's asleep.

I've decided to try fitting Osram Night Breaker Plus bulbs to see if that's good enough before I start wasting my cash. The reviews I've read seem to think they are as good as they claim.

Sorry for the delay in answering, I've been abroad and very busy. Thanks for the advice; I do have an adjuster on the dashboard, so I guess I must have halogens. Dipped beam is pathetic and full beam is very bright. How do I go about improving the situation? Can I upgrade to xenons somehow? Is...

How can I tell? The high beam look like normal H7 bulbs but the main dipped beam are those big round googly magnifying type things. I thought they were HID bulbs, but I have no idea if that's Halogen or Xenon.

I have been doing quite a bit of driving in the dark recently and I've found the headlights on my E280 Estate terrible. The high beam is brilliant, but the main beam is pathetic. Do these weird headlight bulbs wear out and go dim or is it just normal on this model?

It seems that there is a Mercedes Benz specification MB229.51 for Diesel engines with a Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF). All of the oils meeting this specification are listed here. I can't figure out if my car has a DPF, but the Owners Manual doesn't list an E280 CDI without one as far as I can...

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Does it matter what engine oil I put into my car? Does it matter if I mix it? Can I use normal 10w40 or do I need some sort of specific oil for Diesel engines? I've never had a diesel before.

I'd take a look at Draytek Vigor routers with VPN support. This is a low-cost solution aimed at small businesses that can't afford a Cisco solution.

Another vote for Be Unlimited from me too. I used their call centre last night as they had sent me a new wireless-n modem/router and the setup only allowed me to enter a single DNS server address. They were happy for me to telnet to the router and they gave me the command to add the other DNS...