What Have You Done To Your Merc Today?

[Bobby Dazzler]

My company cars from 2014 and 1991 together in '14.....
The Audi was 2.0 tdi Ultra, not the 3 litre bi-turbo, but a great car none the lessView attachment 129946

Even in matching colours

The A6 is as was possibly the most competent car I’ve ever had. I respected it a lots but I never loved it.

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

It was my Mercedes-AMG ForFour Black Series Brabus Edition 1 of 1

The ML 63 - with either engine - would manage 19.x MPG on that trip, and GT C might manage 23 MPG. My wife thought I was nuts going so far in the ForFour but at the end of the journey I was as fresh as a daisy despite having been sat in it for more than 6 hours in total.

I really enjoyed it and it was comfortable too. I had one scary moment joining the motorway from the services - a short slip with a hard stop at the end, and fast lorries - meant that I was moments away from getting stuck on the slip, but other that the only other thing lacking was the audio quality, which could be improved easily.

The most efficient car I’ve ever had was a 1997 Rover 220 SDi which did 46 MPG no matter how hard - or soft - I drove it. Many years later I had a 2014 Audi A6 3.0 Bi TDi [313] Quattro Sport Line Black Edition (and it really was called that, blooming ridiculous!) and I managed 46 MPG once, but I had to work hard for it! Maybe it was the weight of all the badges

Here’s the mean machine in question:

 

[SpikyMikey]

Ooo

Oooof, that’s a handsome car.

Yep, very nice.
Parking brake works well also....

 

[merc estate]

That reminds me to make the garage look cleaner and dust all the bottles and tins of polish

 

[E55BOF]

Don't clean the number plate so much that the letters are rubbed away, though...

 

[zipdip]

Fitted battery in key fob

 

[W1ghty]

E class rear diff oil changed . Sprayed the rear light level sensor that’s hidden above the diff with ACF50 .
Then used up my can of Dinitrol in and around the rear subframe .

 

[W1ghty]

Gave her a wash... now it's raining!View attachment 129939

What a monster buddy ! Also a CBR1000 (I had one years ago ) . You are living my dream at the moment .

 

[ALFAitalia]

My company cars from 2014 and 1991 together in '14.....
The Audi was 2.0 tdi Ultra, not the 3 litre bi-turbo, but a great car none the lessView attachment 129946

I used to have VAN no plate on a company car....VAN 28.....that wasn't a van either!!

 

[AMGeed]

Gave her a wash... now it's raining!View attachment 129939

Best looking E55 I have seen on the forum. Congrats.
Is that Ricky's previously owned E55?
Great looking car whatever.

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

Blimey I really did surprise myself today, after detailing the interior of three cars this afternoon.. I then washed two of them this evening - unheard of for me.

Neither car has been washed for months so I gave the wheels two washes with iron fallout remover, and used tyre cleaner before re-coatimg the tyres.

I topped-up the ceramic coatings with a spray-on rinse-off hydrophobic coating, and finished off with water from the DI vessel so I didn’t have to dry.

I need to do the glass inside and out tomorrow, and next time I wash them I really need to clean the door, boot and bonnet shuts but that can wait until it’s cooler.

I wonder whether I’ll feel up to doing a couple more tomorrow night. Both are big cars though- and one is black so hard work relative to today’s cars. Let’s see.

I continue to surprise myself. I did two more tonight. Hard work because both are very big, one is black and both have been very well used since the last wash but they’ve both come up beautifully.

I didn’t have chance to clean the glass and apply coatings to the tyres, so I’ll do that tomorrow. I did give the tyres a thorough clean with tyre cleaner though so they should come up beautifully with the sealant.

 

[Skd884]

Best looking E55 I have seen on the forum. Congrats.
Is that Ricky's previously owned E55?
Great looking car whatever.

Yes R it's Rickys ex.

 

[fozRB25]

Thanks bud. Yeps, Rickys old one I collected in Feb this year. Added a few more bits to it since, very happy with how she loks and goes now!

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

I actually managed 60.6 MPG over a distance of 114 miles. The return leg wasn’t anywhere near as good, achieving 57.2 MPG over the total 229 miles.

Impressive! Was that in the ML63, or the AMG GT, or...

The ML 63 - with either engine - would manage 19.x MPG on that trip, and GT C might manage 23 MPG.

Today I did a very similar journey - but with lighter traffic - in an ML 63 AMG PP (M157/W166) and it managed 20.4 MPG over 234 miles.

Gentle driving, no hard acceleration, but not economy driving. Just eeping up with traffic but as there was less traffic the speeds werre a little higher.

In similar traffic to Thursday it would have been the opposite side of 20 MPG.

 

[tomw]

Speaking of MPG - just got back from a trip to the south of France (and back). It read 33.5MPG on the first leg to the Eurotunnel after some 50mph stints on the M25 and M20.

Not bad overall I thought.

 

[Londonscottish]

Speaking of MPG - just got back from a trip to the south of France (and back). It read 33.5MPG on the first leg to the Eurotunnel after some 50mph stints on the M25 and M20.

Not bad overall I thought.

View attachment 130023

That's pretty good going.

 

[W1ghty]

Dashcam reinstalled in the new E class windscreen.

 

[SmartAmg]

Dashcam reinstalled in the new E class windscreen.

You can see what your hitting again, now, Wighty.

 

[DucatiEVO]

Washed it for the first time in two months I think!

 

[Londonscottish]

I moved it from one space in a French car park where locals could easily drive into both sides as well as the front and back to another where one side is protected.

It's like a lottery parking in France - you know someone's going to bounce their car off yours sooner or later....