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Have noticed the windows of my car (350SL) misting up both when parked up and intermittently when driving... Checked out at Merc agent, they advise leak into boot the causation, required new seals on boot, and rear of car/roof...cost circa £2.5k... Motor purchased just less than 12 months...

My son's car was reversed into the other night in a car park. He drives an L Reg Mercedes 190D 2.5. About 280Ks. Guilty party has insurance and accepts responsibility. Driver's door needs a new one and painted. Two body shops have quoted over a grand to fix!!! Car is due MoT in a couple of...

Just had the rust warranty claim on my W210 estate approved. Both front wings, both rear arches, tailgate and bonnet. MB will make a 50% contribution, which means I have to pay £1400. It may be more if any panels need replacing. Does this seem fair on a car that's almost 8 years old, or...

Hi I have had to make a claim on my insurance for repairs to my car and I have not been happy with the level of service that I have reieved from the insurance companies approved repairer. I therefore want to get some form of compensation, the easiest way, I feel, would be to get a discount...

Hi, Need your advice. My 1999 C43 just passed it's 10th birthday 3 months ago. The car has minor rust at the 4 wheel arches and on the boot lid. The car has FMBSH. £1000's of £'s worth of bills, all done at MB. Having spoken to a couple of dealers, they have told me there is a 10 year...

Help needed to understand this! I have just set up a limited company.My accountant says i should claim mileage. I do 25K P.A mileage.So 40 p at 10K =£4000.25p at 15K = £3750.Total = £7750. Now when you consider my fuel will be about £3000,Insurance £600,Lease Inc Maintenance £9500 = 13100...

I took my car in to Hughes of Beaconsfield for its first MOT last week. This was obviously just before its 3-year warranty ran out. Earlier that day, I had another occurrence of a problem that I had noticed previously but had not reported. I reported it to the Service Manager when I booked the...

I am about to get ripped off with an insurance claim. Last July, I was going straight ahead at a roundabout onto the M5, when a driver in the left hand lane cut into my lane, clearly not having checked his blind spot, and clipped the front wing of my car with the rear of his. At the time, we...

I posted on here in July about an incident I had. Going straight ahead at a roundabout, when driver in left hand lane decides to go right, and drove straight into the side of me. At the time, he appologised twice for driving into me, which I took as an admission of liability, and we all assured...

Tonight, driving home after doing a bit of shopping, I hit a massive pothole in the road which ruined my nearside front tyre. This all happened about 7.10pm so it was dark. I phoned for assistance and all was fixed in about 60 minutes. The thing is this was caused by a water main burst under the...

I have successfully had a goodwill claim approved for my 2001 S210 E class estate: Front arches (new wings) Rear arches Tailgate Bonnet edges Roof (by tailgate hinges) This was all approved painlessly by MB Chichester who I have found very helpful. Their work is contracted out to...

just a quick question i thought i throw in here.... Do garnish moldings and the rubber round the windows come under the 3 year warranty? May pay the local stealer a vist as there coming a little discoloured and from my sclass last time if they do start to oxidise (go whitish) there easy £100...

On Jan 4 the W210 E55 went in for a time-based 2-year 'B' service (still had 4800 miles to go on ASSYST) and on the basis of members' experience I asked the garage to make a careful check for rust. On Jan 11 the bodyshop asked MBUK to pay for repairs to all four wheel arches and one door...

As per my post in the general section i recently suffered from some clown placing a couple of traffic cones on my car resulting in damaged paintwork and sunroof glass. I'm insured with Admiral and they wish to use their approved repairer which is not a MB garage. I firstly took the car to...

Having spotted aluminium rot on the bottom of the doors of my CL500 I contacted MB Customer Service, who advised me to take it to a local dealer for an inspection. I've just done that and, during the inspection, they measured the thickness of the paint with a micrometer. It was significantly...

Hi Folks. Got side swiped by Polish registered, left hand drive 8 wheeler yesterday. (more like a house on wheels) Not much damage, more of a nuisance than anything. Surface scracthes to the door that will polish out. Over the rear near side wheel arch deeper scratches but nothing to the...

A friend of mine took his girlfriends Y reg SLK into Mercedes Cheltenham and Gloucester dealership for some rust repairs, when he got there he was told to take it to a body shop in Cheltenham (not a Mercedes body shop) which was surprising to say the least. He did not buy the car from Mercedes...

Hi I have a 1997 S320 AMC of Tooting, London have just surveyed the car for an MOT and claim that both front suspension springs need replacing, cost £400 allegedly both springs have snapped? right at the base of the mounting? oddly they are also me to alloow them to keep the car for a further...

Hi, Just received (or rather my wife has) a Claim Form (issued by a County Court). Earlier this year my wife had an accident in my Company Car on a roundabout. I won't go into the specifics of the accident here. Anwyay, our company vehicles are all insured on a Third Party basis. They...

I have been reading the forums and am a little confused as there are some contradictions. I have a 99 C200 W202 which i have just noticed is starting to show signs of rust bubbling on the inside of the front drivers wing, only very slight but nevertheless it is rust. Now i have read that mobilo...