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[Guest Hooli]

Spikey looks cheerful.

[pshome]

Everytime i look at your Benz, i have that feeling there is something important missing.

 

 

https://www.ebay.de/itm/400827769746

[SiC]

Don't these have the best single wiper arm action ever?

[Guest Hooli]

The pokey out to the corners action that seizes up when wet so the wiper slows down & the motor smells of burning? yup they do.

[Peter C]

Stunning looking motor but then again I am little biased.

 

GLWTS

[richardmorris]

The pokey out to the corners action that seizes up when wet so the wiper slows down & the motor smells of burning? yup they do.

 

Mines ok- I greased it all up when I bought it. Replaced the yellow wax like hard stuff with nice brown grease. The trick is to turn the ignition off with the wiper fully extended. The plastic cover then prises off and you can lubricate away to your heart’s content.

[richardmorris]

Mines ok- I greased it all up when I bought it. Replaced the yellow wax like hard stuff with nice brown grease. The trick is to turn the ignition off with the wiper fully extended. The plastic cover then prises off and you can lubricate away to your heart’s content.

 

According to the brochure puff from Mercedes it clears about 86% of the screen with a single blade compared to the 80% most cars do with two.

[Guest Hooli]

Mines ok- I greased it all up when I bought it. Replaced the yellow wax like hard stuff with nice brown grease. The trick is to turn the ignition off with the wiper fully extended. The plastic cover then prises off and you can lubricate away to your heart’s content.

 

I wish I'd known that years ago when I couldn't find my way into it to grease it.

[Junkman]

According to the brochure puff from Mercedes it clears about 86% of the screen with a single blade compared to the 80% most cars do with two.

 

Yeah, the pointlessness is an overwhelming one.

[320touring]

#100%Beadlespecmirrors

[forddeliveryboy]

Devastatingly awful given it's replaced a British V12.

 

Shirley big Kraut car + little engine = long term loan to womankind?

[Junkman]

Anyway, we ventured about a bit.

 

Big risks were taken.

 

 

 

 

A train was spotted.

 

 

 

 

Mustang.

 

 

 

 

 

It wasn't the only septic in town.

 

 

 

 

The preacherman's business was passed by.

 

 

 

 

People around here apparently ride elephants.

 

 

 

 

Denn heute gehört uns Deutschland

und morgen die ganze Welt!

 

 

[forddeliveryboy]

Good for all the state-monitored avg speed zones, though. Just don't use the sunroof - once stuck, never moved.

[Junkman]

Everytime i look at your Benz, i have that feeling there is something important missing.

 

 

https://www.ebay.de/itm/400827769746

 

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Denn heute gehört uns Deutschland

und morgen die ganze Welt!

 

It's got nothing to do with your vor-sprung durge technique, you know

 

[xtriple]

The dancing wiper was done to appease the blasted septics who said that at least 85% of the screen must be cleared. Or something like that percentage. I LOVE that wiper, a solid reason on its own for buying a Merc so equiped!

 

Please note, mine has one as well

[richardmorris]

The dancing wiper was done to appease the blasted septics who said that at least 85% of the screen must be cleared. Or something like that percentage. I LOVE that wiper, a solid reason on its own for buying a Merc so equiped!

 

Please note, mine has one as well

Aside from a long dalliance with a Citroen c5 ( which induced a nervous tick) I like older cars, and the merc I have idealogically replaced my Citroen cx. Single wiper, grey plastic interior and a propensity to leak and rust. It’s perfect!

 

never buy a car with a computer for a brain.

[Junkman]

Thanks God I'm not suffering from wiper OCD.

I switch them on when it's fucking raining and besides that my cannotbearsedness about them is unlimited.

[D Spares & Tyres]

Reading though this thread i only have one question.

 

A Jaguar V12. Why?????????

 

What good could have come of that?

 

In what parallel universe could that have improved your life?

 

Don't get me wrong, I like them . They are heavy. Good cats too. They weigh in well. Especially with the damp carpets it will have.

 

Anyway nice Merc. Can a zillion African taxi drivers be wrong? ( I don't know. Genuine question)

[Uncle Jimmy]

A Jaguar V12. Why?????????

What good could have come of that?

In what parallel universe could that have improved your life?

Er...this is Autoshite not Choice magazine

 

Only thing worse than buying a shoddy V12 Jag is being dull enough to want to drive around in a piece of industrial design masquerading as an automobile. A four pot too- what kind of fool could possibly think that was a good idea!

[D Spares & Tyres]

Hmm

 

The 405 and R16 are four pots and they are almost the perfect cars in their own way.

 

The engine in the V12 Jag is generally no problem at all though. Just a shame the rest of the car is shite

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

Not everyone likes a Jag. If a cars were lunches, a 4-pot Merc would be a salad. Lots of people like a salad, but no great story ever started with one. As for the Jag, the barman may throw in a packet of peanuts if you're really hungry...

[Junkman]

Can a zillion African taxi drivers be wrong?

Not only can they, they actually are. In fact, they are hardly ever right.

That's just one thing they have in common with Berlin taxi drivers, or taxi drivers anywhere, while I'm at it,

except those taxi drivers that are old enough to remember hooning a Checker Marathon through Noo Yawk.

 

 

 

A four pot too- what kind of fool could possibly think that was a good idea!

Conrad.

 

 

Not everyone likes a Jag.

You either like Jaaaaags, or you're wrong.

[Junkman]

Anyway, Spikey and I prepared for the journey back.
 

 
 
We drove through farmland.
 

 
 
We left farmland and had a break.
 

 

 
 
 
We travelled along an empty road while others queued on one of those motorways because they are mercilessly stupid, but allowed to vote.
 

 
 
It was nice there.
 

 
 
A bridge was crossed.
 

 
 
 
That's a house there.
 

 
Since it's in England, I bet it's expensive.
 
 
 
We just followed the road.
 

 
 
 
There were steaks.
 

 

 
 
We continued on an evidently overpopulated planet.
 

 
While people with less brains queued on one of those motorways there, which they do every fucking day, except the one they go to cast their vote.

Scary shit that.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Being stuck in a queue on a motorway is doubly frustrating as they have removed the one big advantage of any other carriageway - the ability to legally turn around and go the other way

 

However as you an see I am in a modern benz, so probably not altogether surprising to see I've made the terrible decision to be in that situation to begin with.

 

 

 

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[SiC]

I tend to do a lot of my travelling by motorway as it's the quickest way and being multi-laned it's easy to overtake the inferior slower cars. However after a week on a Greek holiday island, I've got used to bimbling at my own speed. Especially helped by the fact that speed limits seem advisory and the rough roads slow the traffic down more than any speed bump can.

 

Tempted to go out and have a bumble along back roads in the future.

[Mally]

 

Tempted to go out and have a bumble along back roads in the future.

 

That's what MGB's are for.

Not for hiding away in a garage like some do!

[Junkman]

I tend to do a lot of my travelling by motorway as it's the quickest way

 

 

Why are you guys always in such a hurry?

[The_Equalizer]

Being stuck in a queue on a motorway is doubly frustrating as they have removed the one big advantage of any other carriageway - the ability to legally turn around and go the other way

 

However as you an see I am in a modern benz, so probably not altogether surprising to see I've made the terrible decision to be in that situation to begin with.

 

 

 

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Looks awfully like you're on the first bit of the M5? Normally it's dead quick to get into Belfast.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Looks awfully like you're on the first bit of the M5? Normally it's dead quick to get into Belfast.

Yup. The M2 was completely closed because accident and all traffic was being funnelled off at fortwilliam. Chaos.

 

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