The shite diary of NorfolkNWeigh age 56 and 3/4.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I’m terrible at posting about the comings and going’s and the trials and tribulations of keeping my motley collection of mostly German and also mostly modern heaps. 
Today I swapped some wheels and cleaned up the CLK coupe we bought off @Skcaton Wednesday night.

Too many Mercs?  No such thing.

It just means when you need a couple tyres ,you’ve got some in stock, right?

At the bottom of that pile are some 17”  taggered AMG rims that would be perfect for a CLK, but I can’t be arsed getting them out and the tyres are probably  as old as the CLK.

So let’s try these 17” wheels that I took off my E Class

Tyres like new but a bit chavvy and they foul on the suspension, so let’s rob a couple of wheels off the cabriolet

.Before

After

 

[Cord Fourteener]

Nice collection, I like the Tetris-style driveway too.

I hope you update the title appropriately every quarter in terms of your age as well as regular updates on your fleet 😅

[NorfolkNWeigh]

I realised these tyres from the Cabriolet are getting on a bit too, but at least it’s legal. There’s Abrams new unused full size Continental on a stell rim in the boot, I’ve left instructions for daughter to go and see Mohammed the tyre man for a change over whilst I’m away this week.

The cabriolet somehow ended up with a modern 17, which doesn’t look that bad, I don’t think.

Next I took the Coupe for a quick wash, it transformed it, the true definition of a Ten Footer , this is.

Notice a couple of non- Mercedes members of the fleet in th background, Might post some stuff about these this week whilst I’m locked up at HMP Holiday Inn Brentwood.

[Talbot]

17 minutes ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

I have/use the same wheel type on my E300 S210, which is probably the same silver.  I think they suit the car very well indeed.  5-spoke wheels with 5 bolt holes.  It all just looks right.

[Six-cylinder]

My CLK came from HMC with these wheels and I think they are great.

[Skcat]

Will keep a eye on this! Can't wait to see how it goes, maybe you can get that ESC/BAS light off soon. 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

12 minutes ago, Skcat said:

Will keep a eye on this! Can't wait to see how it goes, maybe you can get that ESC/BAS light off soon. 

No need, I cut a piece of black gaffa tape to cover it up ! Did the EML too. The steering wheel has responded well to my secret leather cleaner too ( Mr muscle window cleaner) 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

23 minutes ago, Six-cylinder said:

My CLK came from HMC with these wheels and I think they are great.

Ours had the earlier style AMG’s, here it is in happier times. Needs a complete respray and new wings now. Not really worth doing but Mrs N loves it.

[horriblemercedes]

Great thread name! 

[The_Equalizer]

11 hours ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

Ours had the earlier style AMG’s, here it is in happier times. Needs a complete respray and new wings now. Not really worth doing but Mrs N loves it.

Great colour and red/black is rather rare if I am not mistaken.

For what it is worth I managed to obtain two excellent second-hand wings on the bay of delights for £160 all in. Yet to put them on mind.

I do love mono-blocks. They were recently refinished and had new Continentals all round at a cost probably equivalent to the car's value.

 

[Talbot]

4 hours ago, The_Equalizer said:

I do love mono-blocks. They were recently refinished and had new Continentals all round at a cost probably equivalent to the car's value.

Maybe more.  A decent set of monoblocks in the right size, shod with quality rubber can easily be ~£1200.  There are copies/repo's out there too, and monoblocks came in a fair range of sizes, some worth more than others.

I don't see the appeal myself.  The wheels I run look (fairly) similar, and were on the car when I bought it.  It annoyed me greatly that although the spare is full-size, it was a steel wheel, so I managed to buy another full set of the same alloys for £50, even with two useable tyres.  5 alloys on the car and 3 spares just in case.

[Steviemillar]

Mercs are all very well but no mention of the main star of the show, your E30......

[NorfolkNWeigh]

4 hours ago, Talbot said:

Maybe more.  A decent set of monoblocks in the right size, shod with quality rubber can easily be ~£1200.  There are copies/repo's out there too, and monoblocks came in a fair range of sizes, some worth more than others.

I don't see the appeal myself.  The wheels I run look (fairly) similar, and were on the car when I bought it.  It annoyed me greatly that although the spare is full-size, it was a steel wheel, so I managed to buy another full set of the same alloys for £50, even with two useable tyres.  5 alloys on the car and 3 spares just in case.

I bought this for £1200 in the summer, mainly because I thought the wheels were worth maybe £5/600. In fact I was offered £1000 for them by two different people. I left them on it , as I made good money on the car. Wish I’d kept them now.

[The_Equalizer]

7 hours ago, Talbot said:

Maybe more.  A decent set of monoblocks in the right size, shod with quality rubber can easily be ~£1200.  There are copies/repo's out there too, and monoblocks came in a fair range of sizes, some worth more than others.

I don't see the appeal myself.  The wheels I run look (fairly) similar, and were on the car when I bought it.  It annoyed me greatly that although the spare is full-size, it was a steel wheel, so I managed to buy another full set of the same alloys for £50, even with two useable tyres.  5 alloys on the car and 3 spares just in case.

My 17" staggered monos came off a W202 C230K with a stuffed engine I bought in 2011 for £400. At the time I had another W202 C230K (albeit a manual) which had come with repo 18" split rim things. The 18s were a bit too much for a 38-year-old with a child seat in the back so I swapped them for the 17s and got £300 for the 18s. 

Fast forward five years, the C230K had mighty terminal rot despite my best efforts . I bought it the CLK and popped them on that. 

Yes, these days genuine 18s are serious money - probably best part of a £1K. The 17s are a good few hundred and the 15s you can hardly give away.  I still wouldn't think it a bad idea to spend that sort of money given that you could sell them again for the same.

[The_Equalizer]

3 hours ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

I bought this for £1200 in the summer, mainly because I thought the wheels were worth maybe £5/600. In fact I was offered £1000 for them by two different people. I left them on it , as I made good money on the car. Wish I’d kept them now.

Lovely and looks very tidy.  Can I presume for that money and given the wheels it was a E430?

Really fancy one of these or a CLK430 just for the dirt cheap V8 factor.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

1 hour ago, The_Equalizer said:

Lovely and looks very tidy.  Can I presume for that money and given the wheels it was a E430?

Really fancy one of these or a CLK430 just for the dirt cheap V8 factor.

Yes , a 430 . You’ll need to be quick to find a cheap one, I could have sold that one for £3k , ten times over.  Not fast but effortlessly rapid.  I’d also like a CLK430 Cabriolet, but later 500CLKs are getting very cheap too...

In 20 years time we’ll be boring our grandchildren with tales of the easy come easy go Mercedes, BMW, Jaguar V8s for a few hundred pounds . Bit like my Dads stories of XK150s, Jensen 541s and MarkVI Bentleys for pennies in the first OPEC oil crisis.

[Talbot]

2 hours ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

Yes , a 430 .   Not fast but effortlessly rapid.

Really?  Whilst not the fastest W210 available (that's the E55AMG) I thought the 430 was still a really quite fast car, even by modern standards.