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When at tickover my revs usually start at about 900 cold and drop to 600 when it has warmed up. Last night the revs stayed high the whole trip home and the car sounded more throaty (but not clattery). This morning it stayed high as well and continued with the throaty sound. When I got...

This post made me smile when I read it on that well known American forum! Never fails to amaze me just how deeply technical and baffling some of the posts are over there :D:D I just had an image of a bloke called Chuck peering at the instrument cluster on his his car when saw this message...

ASDA is selling Mobil S 10-40 semi synthetic 5 ltr pack £22 1 ltr pack special offer reduced from £4 to £3 even at £4 its still cheaper :confused:

My car, a V220. On the dash it has the normal row of lights and stuff, but the EDC light and the abs light have been reversed. By this i mean somebody did a fairly 'hack the sh1t out of it' job . They cut the piece of black plastic out and swapped them. So i just idley wondered if anybody...

Hi, When the car (W208 CLK 230K) is initially started, and when driving slowly when the car is cold, there is an odd sound from the engine. Not sure if it is normal. The sound is hard to explain, it's not really a rattle. I'm hoping it's normal and someone can describe it better than me...

Hi folks, Today I took out my broken radio and saw 2 cables that I didn't know where they came from. Maybe somebody could help me out what kind of cable it is (surely not radio related) Thanks !

Hi all, as the title suggests, I'm getting an odd noise from the engine on startup and idle for some time afterwards until the car fully warms up. I can only describe it as a high pitched metallic rattle, which seems to be coming from the O/S bottom of the engine bay close to the wheel arch -...

190e 1989. I have not used it for about a month and it has been in the garage all the time and now won't start. The battery is fine and turns it well. There are sparks at the plugs and the tank is full. There are no blown fuses. The first time I tried to start it it did fire for about two...

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I was in Stamford on Sunday for a car show. While wondering around the town I spotted this B180 CDi. Now I'm not a fan of AMG badging when a car has absolutely no AMG paraphernalia whatsoever, but why on earth would you badge it with an imitation AMG badge?! :confused: Still, it gave me a...

On the current (i.e. chrome sided) MB keys, there is a small spring-loaded slider that releases the conventional key. One of my W204 keys has a black slider, the other a grey one. Does anyone know if you can get other colour sliders and if they can be changed on existing keys? If so, does anyone...

Doing a little bit of e55 drooling ;) and I came across this one on ebay E55 is it just me or are the locations of the cd and aircon unit swapped over? D.

HI all Sorry if this is posted in the wrong place, I am literally on the verge of handing over money on a private sale for a petrol E240 (02 reg) and one thing on the test drive worries me slightly. When the car has come to a complete rest, there is an odd little motor sound coming from the...

See here: Could we squeeze them into an 18 seater minibus? :D

Sorry if any of these images have been seen before. I'm posting 3, images per page due to an ongoing problem with photobucket... :rolleyes: More Pics on following pages.

The COMAND units behave differently between my CLS and CLK. In the CLS when the radio station is displayed inside the speedo, the up/down arrow buttons on the steering wheel scroll through the radio preset stations. In the CLK when the radio station is displayed inside the speedo, the...

As Merc enthusiasts, Im sure that quite a few of us have odd spare parts tucked away in our garages that will probably never be used again. With a few GTGs taking place over the next few months, would it not be a good idea to put parts against names on the list of people coming down, you bring...

Took the Merc to Brighton last weekend, (which was good fun!) and on the way up we stopped to have a break and my OH on locking the car looked back and noticed it looked slighty wonky (low profile tyres and on a hill, good eyes!:D) He went to have a look and the rear offside tyre was flat. We...

Hello, at 92,222 I got a spanner and a message saying next service in 600 miles, then it dissipeared. Never bak again? Is the computer confused? What is the service at around 100.000 mark? Cheers. Olivier

Just come out the mechanic. Both donuts are OK :p. There is a light clunk noise when we turn the propshaft manually and with a little lag when turning it one side and then the other. The universal bearing look OK as well. The mechanic drove it and didn't find anything particular except a wee...