What Have You Done To Your Merc Today?

[cristispot]

Have done the most annoying and time consuming job.

Linkage broke Thursday on motorway on my way home(while it pis*ing down) , manage to get home in one piece and got this sorted today.

Since I’ve opened all mechanisms decided to clean them and use lithium grease all over.

Pain in the butt to align it correctly

 

[Spider10]

Another trip to Birmingham to get Another new set of TPMS as the 1st set never connected to the car

 

[TeddyRuxpin]

That picture makes me nervous and it's not even my car!!!

 

[Spider10]

The wife thought someone had nicked my wheels (she's originally from Liverpool)
Its actually jacked up with the rubber bung so it can't slip

 

[SmartAmg]

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Fitted me Re-furbed alloys today and titivated me Calipers and hubs, gonna get me Cades Apollo Re-furbed next.

 

[SpikyMikey]

Fitted me Re-furbed alloys today and titivated me Calipers and hubs, gonna get me Cades Apollo Re-furbed next.
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What did you use on the calipers?

 

[SmartAmg]

What did you use on the calipers?

Halfords Engine paint, much better than there Caliper paint it's thicker and goes on a lot better.

 

[SpikyMikey]

Halfords Engine paint, much better than there Caliper paint it's thicker and goes on a lot better.

Nicely done

 

[W1ghty]

Changed the Gearbox Electrical connection on the CLK , it was all dry when I pulled it apart which was a good sign .
A bit fiddly getting the new one in with the confidence to push when it felt lined up , but we got there in the end .
I lost about 900ml of fluid , but treated that as a chance to top up with more good new stuff than if I had jacked the front of the car up more .
I normally drop the whole 3.5L of oil from the sump every year anyway , so I probably won’t bother this year .

 

[pillow]

Changed the Gearbox Electrical connection on the CLK , it was all dry when I pulled it apart which was a good sign .



A bit fiddly getting the new one in with the confidence to push when it felt lined up , but we got there in the end .



I lost about 900ml of fluid , but treated that as a chance to top up with more good new stuff than if I had jacked the front of the car up more .



I normally drop the whole 3.5L of oil from the sump every year anyway , so I probably won’t bother this year .

I have had this replacement connector sitting in a plastic bag for a couple of years now.. really need to get round to it. Easy job in the end?

 

[W1ghty]

I have had this replacement connector sitting in a plastic bag for a couple of years now.. really need to get round to it. Easy job in the end?

Probably took an hour and a half in all in the sun , that included getting the car in the air and back down .
I watched an hour of YouTube stuff showing different people doing it to max up the tips .
With your skills you will breeze it

 

[Tonye]

Driving down to Gosport from Bolton soon in the old bird, ( wish me luck ) to pick up a chartered yacht with the lads, on a jolly, pub crawl on a boat. Back Sunday night, i hope.

 

[MissyD]

Driving down to Gosport from Bolton soon in the old bird, ( wish me luck ) to pick up a chartered yacht with the lads, on a jolly, pub crawl on a boat. Back Sunday night, i hope.

sounds like fun, enjoy

 

[SmartAmg]

Been messing again this morning decided to put me black grill back on, in place of my Panamerica grill, just fancied a change, also changed my black and silver bonnet badge for an all Black one, can't help meself.

 

[Mactech]

Been messing again this morning decided to put me black grill back on, in place of my Panamerica grill, just fancied a change, also changed my black and silver bonnet badge for an all Black one, can't help meself.
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Glad to see it's all black together again.....

 

[SpikyMikey]

Been messing again this morning decided to put me black grill back on, in place of my Panamerica grill, just fancied a change, also changed my black and silver bonnet badge for an all Black one, can't help meself.
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Have to say it's the black grille for me every day of the week

 

[Matt58]

Spent an hour on the E55 looking for a really annoying and embarrassing rattle from front end, jacked car up thought it sound very much like a loose heat shield but after lots of pocking and banging about, turned out to be offside brake disc shield, I’ll take the wheel off in the morning and attempt to nylon tie it until I get chance to take apart and fix with big washers. Still glad I found problem.

 

[Connoisseur]

Nothing too taxing on my A205; the warm weather reminded me to debadge the boot to calm down the traffic light knobs who believe the 200 is slow enough to be bested (it really isn’t for them). Seriously tho’ for me boot looks clean and balanced now. Badges removed using cotton lengths as guillotine followed by white spirit to remove remaining pad material. Final polish to seal the paintwork and job done.

 

[SmartAmg]

Nothing too taxing on my A205; the warm weather reminded me to debadge the boot to calm down the traffic light knobs who believe the 200 is slow enough to be bested (it really isn’t for them). Seriously tho’ for me boot looks clean and balanced now. Badges removed using cotton lengths as guillotine followed by white spirit to remove remaining pad material. Final polish to seal the paintwork and job done. View attachment 125189

Much better!

 

[jasmine]

blew the cobwebs out of it