Hi all, new member, got this car a month ago to replace my 330D I had for a few years. I have owned two CLK's in the past and glad to be back in a Merc again.
Whenever I've bought my previous cars I never intend to make many changes, but then something happens right ....
Anyway, planning to go lightly on this one and control my budget ...... I am a believer of maintenance before mods
So far:
Ok - here are a series of "I did this on my 330D, is it worth doing something similar to my Merc" questions ......
Anyway, long enough post I think!!
Whenever I've bought my previous cars I never intend to make many changes, but then something happens right ....
Anyway, planning to go lightly on this one and control my budget ...... I am a believer of maintenance before mods
So far:
- I still have the old audio 20 system - from what I've read this isn't really upgradeable as it is right apart from swapping in a new unit? So I bought this to enable m phone to stream music. I might look into replacing the stock radio with an Android unit but the options seem way more expensive than that on the beemer
- After being a victim of bad drivers (mainly Peugeot 306's), I bought a simple front/rear dash system, cheap as chips and does the job.
- My Beemer had Xenons so the regular Halogens in this were a bit of a disappointment. I wasn't too keen in HIDs having fitted them to a previous CLK, especially as I didn't want to be one of those drivers blinding people with mods to my projector headlights. However, after a lot of research I have upgraded the regular H7 bulbs with LED equivalents and the parking bulbs
- Also, I couldn't tell if the gearbox oil was ever serviced so had the oil, filters etc changed. The car is on about 76K which isn't bad for the age.
Ok - here are a series of "I did this on my 330D, is it worth doing something similar to my Merc" questions ......
- I had the bushes replaced for polyurethane (powerflex), I really liked how the car handled afterwards. Has anyone ever done this to their Mercs?
- Is it easy to swap flush the power steering fluid on these?
- Anyone recommend a decent OBD2 Scanner or software? On the Beemer I used INPA software
Anyway, long enough post I think!!