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At a recent get-together (Brooklands) I met one of the previous owners of my W124 E36. He told me that my car was originally a MB press car when it was first registered in the UK. On the strength of this, I wrote to MB and asked if they could confirm if that was indeed the case. All I...

Is it just me, or does anyone else think that the Becker Map Pilot is rubbish? Mine was a new unit when I got the car 2 years ago (thankfully, I didn't pay extra for it), and from day 1 I have been unimpressed. In the past I have had Tom Tom sat navs, and I got used to being told when to...

The worst Top Gear I've seen ever. Your comments please

Why is Merc (Renesas) software such total crap ? Was it written by lads on work experience? Bought my new C Class last year, upgraded it to command on line. Plug in ipod. Some artwork there, most not. The artwork is stored on the hard drive --what total prat thought of that? It is stupid: if you...

Has any one else noticed the awful state that the roads are in, it seems that along with the pot holes there is a lot of surface damage and here in Warwickshire a lot of the drains and inspection covers have dropped, some by 4 or so inches.

I've got a 1 year old diesel 1-series, I'm an average, slightly sedate conservative driver and I live in not too remote Bracknell. Driving home tonight I had to be given a push twice after I got stuck. Once, on a small slope and the second time while I was parking outside home. We're not...

My MOT is up at the end of November, so I thought I'd get th car in early. To my disappointment the car failed. Two of the amber bulbs had started to show white. How DARE Mercedes make a car where the bulbs fail after only fifteen years. I spent £740 of my hard earned childrens inheritance to...

OMG, How can you ever show you face in daylight behind the wheel of this contraption... yuk :eek: oY5JkacxUzQ

Thank you to whoever threw away the plastic bag that I tried to avoid this afternoon but which ended up stuck to my exhaust resulting in the best part of an hour being spent scraping the melted plastic off the pipes. :( Top down and stinky poo.

Or at least according to this MSN journalist. ;) http://cars.uk.msn.com/News/Top_ten_article.aspx?cp-documentid=7476483 whether you agree with him or not he makes some interesting observations such as the following. "The classic example is the Golf GTI. The Mk1 weighed just 840kg. The current...

Just used the comand sat nav for the first "real time" i.e,no idea where im going,over the weekend to go to a camp site in filey,the blue dolphin. First it wouldnt accept the postcode,and not knowing the name of the road,its not on the haven website,just the a165 is all it says, so i just put in...

My 2000 E320 cdi gets right out of order when tramlining in the slow lane - very disconcerting. Any one got a cure. I'm running alloys and reasonably wide tyres.

http://www.guzer.com/videos/hummer_break.php Maybe they need a hilux in iraq

I am disappointed with the MPG on my W203 C220 CDi Coupe. I know my journeys aren't the best for it but I thought I would be seeing 40mpg at least on short (15 mile) journeys with a little stop start. I also went to Devon the other week from Birmingham, set the cruise to 70 and didn't even see...

I note that some geek at M-B has fiddled with their website, so that if you search for a used car, it is now hugely more difficult to find the correct model you're looking for. For example, it now needs you to search through 83 SLK pages to find the 2 AMG32s available for sale.... Why do...

You would be forgiven for thinking that a potential customer interested in a £35,000 car would get some decent treatment in one of these places? Well, think again. Two weeks ago I ventured to one of these, to try and test drive a CL500. Admittedly it was last minute, and when I got there...

hi took the Citroen Picasso to Halfords over the weekend to get them to check that the baby car seat we were interested in would fit.... we told them we wanted the ISOFIX seat they sold..... the guy went out to the car only to declare that it didnt have ISOFIX mounts in it.... i said...

This is about the only place I have to vent my frustration, I have just received, in the post this morning, a £40 notice for not paying my road tax. I had renewed my tax on time, with no break in cover. What is equally amazing is that I renewed it, not at a post office, but at my local DVLA...