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After watching my mirrors steam this morning, I realised I've got heated mirrors. :) And they work! Didn't realise this when I bought the car 10 months ago - bonus gadget. Its the little things :D Ade

I'm sure this has been posted before somewhere but it's worth another look. Imagine the senario: You're going to live in Portugal. You find a lovely farmhouse set on a decent plot of land. The place has been empty for 15 years... While exploring your new property you find a large barn...

Received excellent service from Paul Simpson and Matt Thorp at MB Manchester Central and felt that I am quick enough to criticise so I should be equally quick to applaud So I wrote a letter (to the dealer Principal and copied to Wilfred Steffans at Milton Keynes who I believe is the CEO)...

Went to fetch my son in Mpumalanga yesterday. It's a 400km roundtrip of which about 60% is done on the N4 highway. The rest is country roads varying from fair to bad. My impression of the CLK so far: Likes: She's an excellent freeway cruiser. Surprisingly good economy. With distronic set a...

Out driving along a country road this morning in my 1984 SEC - all is well - when suddenly, after a dip in the road surface, I am subjected to the most horrendous screeching noise and vibration. All sorts of fatalistic ideas rush through my head. Well anyway on inspection I find that the bumper...

Recently on checking the brake pads on the ML at 27000 miles, I was very pleasantly surprised to find that the pads were less than 50% worn. I am told that 27000+ miles on original pads in a ML is probably some sort of record. Also on checking oil level, no topping up was necessary. I actually...

Took my car in to Tony Purslow today to get the easy entry seats electrics checked and the car came out having been reprogrammed fully for COMAND to display in the instrument cluster! Plus the seats are fixed plus its got a new MOT all for £90 inclusive. Well pleased. i'd love to get my hands...

Hi all, Just rang my local Dealer (Canary Wharf) for a quote on a B Service for my E320 diesel. The chap quoted me "around £270", subject to any extra bits needing doing. This struck me as being, if not actually cheap, then at least not as expensive as I anticipated. I had been planning...

I went online last night to check my company bank statement from Thursday. The Lloyds business service is the same in appearance to the personal but does not show the present banking day, but what it does show is the available money to spend. Well when I checked I roughly thought I had x...

After feeling I was getting a good deal at MB Worcester see other post, the dealer phoned Me on Friday and left a message on my answer phone, he said his manager reminded him that Glasses only supply a price for the auto C220 and not the manual. So the £17.5K he had said he was going to give me...

I have decided to sell my '03 220CDI saloon so I spent all day yesterday washing, polishing to get it looking nice (its silver so it always looks nice) for the trip to MB Worcester today. I thought being as I had brought it over from an MB dealer in Holland they would give me a crap price, it...

Trade and Industry select committee report: 'Consumers are paying too much to have their cars serviced or repaired compared with drivers in other European countries. In particular, many of the criteria for independent garages to achieve 'authorised repairer' status appear to be barriers to...

My mums W202 has rust on ALL FOUR wheel arches, does anyone know of a sympathetic Mercedes Dealer in the Mancester area that will kick up the minimum amount of fuss about a claim?