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My e500 Coupe in the last day has developed increased road noise. When the car was in for a service (in march) my indie (who I trust without question) advised that the nearside rear upper front arm bush & offside rear sub frame bush debonding and allowing some movement. It wasnt a massive issue...

I'm looking at buying a Japanese import. It's via a proper company in the UK and is a splendid looking 1994 G Wagen 300 GE. Just done an insurance quote and if I say it's imported, the premium goes up by 25% and my excess increases by £150 over what it was when I got a quote with no...

According to the BBC, here. While I have no problem with the prohibition of hand-held mobile phone use while driving, the issue is not one of what size the sanction is but how likely an offender is to be caught. With the lack of Police patrols, the answer to that question is "precious little...

ISA limit increased - good. Rates still rubbish - poor. Get better returns on Santander 123 current account?

Morning All. My C250 coupe is 14 months old and went in for its first service back in December, the other day I noticed the Diesel engine is now considerably louder between 1000/2000 RPM with the window down, after 2k either the noise is reduced or the AMG Exhaust from the handling pack drowns...

My R350 is going in for an A service (44,000 miles) and have been told it's going to cost £699 which is way more than normal. Nothing out of the ordinary just a service. Seems pretty steep to me. I don't know any good non-franchise which I could use instead but going to ask around to see...

OK, I have read many of the posts on here and done many searches for a definitive answer, but not found one yet :dk: I have an '04 W220 S500. It has a Nokia in the centre armreast, the one with the curly cord ("380 Complete pre-installation for mobile phone"). I would like to remove the...

Ok here is another gloat, well not actually i'm just commenting on how well Mercedes marketing has worked. example. E class S211.. When I first saw this model come out I had a choice of classic, elegance and Avantgarde. All ranges had their own design elements, whether you wanted a...

Confusion reigns. My daughter is 16 soon. As part of my fathers estate there is a very good (i should know, i sourced it) little a class to deal with. I had a verbal agreement with him that when he finished driving i would buy it for said daughter (who doesnt yet know). Another family member...

I've been meaning to ask about this for a while but the thread about DRLs has finally spurred me to action! I have always thought that using electrical items made no difference to fuel consumption as the alternator runs all the time driven by the fan belt (or some other enginey bit ;))...

Chaps - I have finally worked out how to input the 229.5 oil grade into ASSYST and thereby hugely increase the interval displayed until the next service from 10000 to 17000 miles on my 2006 C230. :bannana: 1. Put key in ignition and turn to position 1; 2. Press Reset button 3 times in quick...

Per my original thread on this subject, I noticed this press release slipped into my inbox whilst I was off: Motorists on a section of the M42 will be allowed to drive on the hard shoulder at up to 60mph from today, following a detailed safety study, as the Government steps up work on new...

Hi all, This point has crossed my mind before but I have seen other references to it. As oil prices have risen the £:$ exchange rate has fallen so is oil really that much dearer than a year ago? I would love to see the cost of a barrel of oil quoted both in $'s AND £'s so that we (in the UK)...

Has anyone else noticed that unleaded has jumped 4p since Friday ? Not even made the news. Is it just accepted nowadays that fuel increase prices are accepted and nobody will bat an eyelid ?:confused:

A man starts his new job at the zoo and is given three tasks. First is to clear the exotic fish pool of weeds. As he does this a huge fish jumps out and bites him. To show who is boss, he beats it to death with a spade. Realising his employer wont be best pleased he disposes of the fish by...

And this is supposed to help? Three million Britons have been issued with the new hi-tech passport, designed to frustrate terrorists and fraudsters. So why did (we) find it so easy to break the security codes? "I was amazed that they made it so easy, the information contained in the chip...