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I promise you this is a true story.... One of the bosses at our works was getting a load of grief off his missus about fitting a cat flap on their kitchen door. One Sunday he was walking out to the pub to watch a footy match and his missus collared him to fit it. He completely lost his...

As the title suggests had a bit of a mini disaster today! My wife ordered a new Mini Cooper S convertible at the start of the year, and due to wait/build times it was finally booked in for delivery today at 1pm :bannana: As expected the guy turns up at 1pm and I could see a nice Blue blob...

Hi gang, Right , I have had the bad news ..... Its actually part of the chassis that has rusted out , where the subframe bolts on , the underseal has cracked at some point in the past and allowed water in , which has rusted badly....they will have to drop the rear subframe , diff and...

Depression rules at Toad Hall at present ..... :( My car has failed its MOT ! ' Rear , near and offside subframe mountings excessively corroded ' Problem now is, i noticed that my MOT expired on 24th , the tax is due on the 1st April and now i can't tax it as i don't have an MOT ...

Took my w202 sport in for an 'A' service and MOT...all good so far. After paying for it, the service man suggests i should think about getting the engine mounts replaced at the cost of £550, as he did earlier in the day. Now up to this point, the car has driven perfectly and vibration free, so i...

Managed to reverse into a hedge :o today and snapped my aerial off ..... :mad: Anyone got any idea of the price of a new one, and how fiddley is it to fit ? Can't believe i did it TBH ......felt like a right prat ..... at least there is no bodywork damage .....

3 months ago I was regularly getting 40mpg on my run to and from work. Now it struggles to get about 33/34 mpg. My last fill-up overall mpg was 31.9 mpg and it used to be about 37 mpg. The only thing different are the Fulda Carat tyres although Merc "replaced" the engine mgt system (not sure...

From another board, video link below (long but shows disaster 2 mins in) http://www.stern.de/tv/sterntv/549835.html?nv=sb "The entire story gets a lot of attention in the german net and I will summarize what I have understood so far: DC wanted to demonstrate the advantages of their new...

I wish this guy would learn to spell, its really annoying reading his crappy adds...He's still trying to sell the yellow thing that was spotted earlier in ebay... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1997BMW-523I-SE-WHITE-m5-look-like_W0QQitemZ4582484571QQcategoryZ9837QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem...

Sorry for the length....bear with me.... I took my 2002 C32 for some warranty work (a long story for another day) and an A service last week. On booking in the service advisor mentioned they'd be carrying out a couple of recalls - Battery replacement, 'some seals' and 'a couple of other...

Hello all . First post on this forum but i've been a viewer for several months now and have found it to be very informative . Sorry that my first post is a question rather than advice . Been running my e300td on vegetable oil for a couple of weeks now after doing some research and believing...

You are not going to believe this one. I got my iTrip this morning and took it into work to sort out at lunchtime. I've only had my iPod for two weeks and since I bought my car I've not had any music :( (apart from the appalling radio) so the iTrip would prove a Godsend until I get something...

I had a near disaster when changing the glow plugs in the E320 CDI (W21) over the weekend. Plugs 1 to 3 came out easily enough (number one was not working at all, number 3 was lazy). Number 4 unscrewed easily enough but couldn't be withdrawn from the hole. A lot of tugging and turning did the...