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Hi all, I'm new here but wanted to share a dreadful service experience. I live in south london and am relatively new to the area. My old trusty ML320 needed a service recently and without any knowledge of Independent MB garages I consulted google. I found Kinghams in Croydon, approved MB...

hi all, i have a 2002 w211 e240 2.6, and its driving me up the wall, im hoping someone can point me in the right direction. it had random misfires showing up on a cylinders, ive changed all coils and leads, and plugs which solved this problem. but now it still has a p0300 misfire on cylinder...

My highly respected indie has unable to find a fix for my air con after many attempts. Please help Car is a 2003 w211 E320CDI (4 zone air con) Aircon stopped turning on, plugged into Star, sees a fault with the evaporator sensor. (this has now been replaced twice). Clear fault and all is...

Hi folks, Took the CLK for a last minute MOT today at a back street garage. They said it was failing on emissions slightly - Lambda. Said they would try what they could to get it through - 20 mins of having the engine rev away to apparently clear things out and still no joy. Next thing -...

I am posting this up mainly for information so if anyone is in the same boat as me they have some information to go on. I now have a fully working car again but have gone through a nightmare problem which resulted is quite a large bill. The problem started as a whining noise coming from...

London 2012 Olympics: heavy fines for anyone caught using ‘Olympic Lanes’ - Telegraph:wallbash: Wish it never hosted here.

Hi all, Decided to complete a simple oil change on my 300TE, only to have the sump bolt round off!! Anyway, I left it for a few days and looked up online how other people have overcome the problems. Below is a quick youtube video I uploaded with how I resolved the problem on my W124. Thought...

I am having THE mother and father of a bad experience with Mercedes / AMG 'customer services'. As the the owner of a 'factory special' manufactured in 2000, picked up direct from the factory, and never put on a customer data base (until I asked for it to happen in 2006), I was advised by...

anyone know much about the c/l system on an early 129 ? mine is all b*ggered up - the drivers door will not lock by the key or remote. neither of the door pockets will open the lower stowage dash panel (wood) won't open the boot and pasenger door dont talk to each other. to lock the car...

Hi All, For some time I have had major problems posting pictures. If I try to upload from my PC I get "Upload of file failed". If I try to upload from photobucket I get the error message "invalid file". To try to get around this problem I have tried Tinypic but to no avail same "invalid...

nothing but problems.over 3 grand spent already and still no joy:confused:car goes up and down on power.have replaced battery,injector no 3, low and high pressure fuel pumps,pedal sensor,2 mafs,one was faulty,intake maifold motor and both boost pressure control valves over the past 6 months...

Hello all - hope someone here may have an idea....... A few days ago I pulled out on an A road to overtake a couple of slow cars & there was suddenly no power. I was doing 60ish. Subsequently everything was fine, so I convinced myself I'd imagined it/it was a steep hill/ etc etc etc. Then...

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Spent all morning polishing the car , even Harly Waxed the wheels , popped out at lunchtime to run Angela back to work ..... I was queueing in traffic at a roundabout , when a kid in a Peugeot 106 rear ends me having failed to notice that the traffic was stopped , hits me at 40 mph :crazy...

Has anyone here had any experience of Norwich Union Car Insurence? I'm having a lot of problems with them at the moment. I'm insured via kwik-fit as brokers, with the policy underwritten by Norwich Union. Two weeks ago, I had a minor collision, when somebody on a roundabout attempted to turn...

take a look at this . V nice car but a car polishers nightmare!!:crazy: :devil: http://benzinsider.com/2008/03/brabus-bullit-black-arrow-to-debut-at-geneva/ Ive just noticed I'm an hour late with this one. The Cambridge student beat me to it!:bannana:

Hello there. I love my E300TD W210 estate but it is unbelievably low! Is this normal? When I go over a road hump/sleeping policeman the front end digs into the road on the other side. As a result I find my self doing no more than 15mph which frustrates people following me. The car handles...

Whilst relocking and unlocking my C220 Elegance so to deactivate the immoliser, the remote on my key fob has suddenly failed to work! I have tried changing the batteries for brand new ones but this has not helped. on my 1996 model you have to point the fob directly at the rear view mirror which...

Hi all, My MB e270cdi w211 was in for a ball joints recall at MB dealer yesterday, also told them to check why handbrake icon not lighting up on dash when handbrake is down, they quoted me £130 + vat for fixing a damaged wire, i told them to leave it, but still had to pay for gettin it...

Hi gang .... I am talking to you from my old PC at the moment :rolleyes: as my new one is having a mare ..... Basically i tried to re-install the modem software the other day after it kept dropping the connection and now, although the drivers 'appear' to be installed ok , and i have two green...