blowout

So here I was driving back from my parent's place and bam! Hit a pothole! Left a nice scrape and dent on the rim and taken gouge out of the sidewall of the front left tyre :wallbash: So now faced with the dilemma of replacing either just the damaged one or the both of them, they have 5mm...

Travelling at speed down the A1 on Sat My right rear tyre decides that it is time to self destruct, 3 passengers and myself in the car. The only thing I noticed was a slight vibration that I put down to the road surface, then decided that it perhaps wasn't, so pulled onto the hard shoulder...

Newly registered lurker here ,and I'm in need of some advice. I bought my 51 plate C220CDI 19 months ago - at the time it was showing 55k. Since then I have added around 40k to it, and had 1 A and 2 B services (as well as brakes all round) ,always on time and always at the same Merc dealer I...