spike60

As the owner of a dog dick red c126 in Redcar it's good to see another Merc of actual colour in the area! It looks very clean, I hope it's a good 'un.

In. 2015 Honda CRZ GT-T . Got in June after I bought another in Dec 2022 which went to rat shit, - more later. Stayed. 1985 Mercedes 500 SEC Lorinser. Had little use recently due houses and life etc getting in the way so I keep threatening to sell it but it doesn't happen. Currently tucked up in the garage for winter hibernation out of MOT. Owned 5 years, these might as well have been the space shuttle when they were new but now with falling values and my changed finances they're affordable as an extravagant toy. Stayed. 2007 Mercedes E320 cdi. Owned almost 5 years, it's been a good bus, doing 14k miles last year when asked after a couple of years of idling. Little has gone wrong, now over 180k miles but still the tool of choice over a 2023 Suzuki Swift for long runs. Out. 2014 Honda CRV GT. I bought this very late last year from a Vertu dealer knowing it had broken service so was happy to service it again when I got it. Very shiny. And now not very fucking shiny underneath...... . This is an Aug 2014 £9250 car from a Vertu dealer a year ago, showing the floor around the rear suspension mount, the orange cable on the left is the 154v hybrid cable with rotten mountings. They had a no quibble return if you notified them in 14 days but they froze me out, phone calls not answered or returned, emails ignored. They appeared to be counting the 14 days I had to return the car and hoped I would just forget about it. I didn't, but it took my son who works in the trade copying someone from Vertu head office in on the emails. I got my money back but their treatment left a bad taste in my mouth. My white CRZ does not look like this underneath! Out. 2000 BMW Z3 2.8 Owned 11 years it was an old Cat C bought from a friend and was pretty trouble free, the powerflow exhaust was sweet on a 10 mile run to work but a drone on longer runs. Strong marks as a daily driver usable toy, it only went because a need to slim the fleet a little.

If you have external mirrors not tinting at night it's often the wiring inside the door tired from the auto fold, my passenger side has never worked on my watch. They also start to lose the adjustment functions.

The few times I've had Xenon light levelling problems it's been the little rods and ball joints on the suspension which go to the sensors falling to bits, nothing too dramatic. W211 I've had nearly 5 years ok with those so far.

Pennies sent!

As a reformed 5 series perv I think early 530d E39's were 184 bhp with autos having swirl flaps but not the manuals, then after a couple of years 193bhp with swirl flaps for all. The 525tds E34 was 143 bhp so I assume it was the same in the early E39 525 tds before the 530d came along. E34 525 td was 120 ish bhp. I paid £500 for broken seedy 1999 530d estate manual and took it from 233k to to 270k before a cracked manifold was the end for me and it.

That'll be me then. I worked as a diesel fitter for a Leyland truck and bus dealer in 1981 and we used to get those and FG's in for service etc .