Slow bought another shed?! Not selling for gold rings

[Slow]

eltax91 said:

Slow said:

K12beano said:

Lovely - Birmingham to Inverness in the middle of winter? Shovel and a big coat???

Backpack with a phone charger, boxers, socks and a toothbrush is all I brought. No shovels for me.

That's all you need. It'll be nice and cosy in the recovery trucks cabin from Leicester onwards anyway.

Spent enough time in those cabins IfI make it to the A9 and snow causes problems my Mum with a Range Rover on winters will be the recovery vehicle

[GreatGranny]

Well?

Picked it up yet?

[Slow]

GreatGranny said:

Well?

Picked it up yet?

Not getting off the last train till close to 10pm, won't see it tonight.

[BrettMRC]

Slow said:

Not getting off the last train till close to 10pm, won't see it tonight.

I'm pulling an all nighter, so expect to see pics by the time the sun is up!

Good luck with it

[Slow]

BrettMRC said:

Slow said:

Not getting off the last train till close to 10pm, won't see it tonight.

I'm pulling an all nighter, so expect to see pics by the time the sun is up!

Good luck with it

Gonna get on the road early to be in Dundee for 2pm for the 3pm game between United and Liverpool. Hopefully providing the car works! This will mean no pictures till after, won't be home till Monday for real updates.

Best I can do you for now.

[MrBig]

Nutter. I'll be watching with interest!

[mybrainhurts]

Those pics...I can understand how you rolled the car, but how the hell did you roll the house?

[Iva Barchetta]

Could you explain the "not selling for gold rings" stuff please.

I'm sure it must have been referenced somewhere before but.....

If anyone is slow ,it's me....

[K12beano]

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...


There's a "special" PH precedent set when trading W220s - as explained in the entertaining thread above....

[ian316]

so has Slow made it back in time for the football?

[Slow]

He has indeed.

Car didn't let me down. Lots of wee problems though but pretty happy. Seems to look rust free too which is nice.

Cruise control won't work above 60 which is odd.
Play in steering, mentioned on last mot so assume same bit?
Vibration when braking - linked to above as new front discs recently?
Every 3 seconds or so there's a very slight vibration from the rear for half a second, maybe a prop bearing? Wasn't really that bad.
Left wiper blade doesn't clear anything.

Might have got a speeding ticket too which is annoying, camera saw me at maybe 81/2 but I don't know how much this car overreads by.

Averaged 80ish mph over the trip with 25mpg. This a picture from mid trip.

[williamp]

how quiet is it? This, oddly is the thing I love most about luxobarges: the quietness when on the move.

[ian316]

nice one proper bargain

[parabolica]

Proper bargain there OP; if you don't know it already, there is a youtube channel called Apida and the guy on there runs a 2000-era S-class and has done a bunch of touch-up mods - well worth checking out.

[threadlock]

Good luck with this, Slow. Glad you got back OK.

I had a W210 E-Class for a while. The cruise control stopped working above 40mph on that when I fitted a new pair of rear tyres that were a slightly different size to the fronts. I guess the cruise computer spotted too much variation in the axle speeds and assumed something was wrong. Might be worth checking that all tyres are the correct size on yours.

[jamoor]

What a steal.

[R8Steve]

Hmmm, all seems a bit familiar in here!

[anonymous-user]

R8Steve said:

Hmmm, all seems a bit familiar in here!

Agree, all the "What a bargain" comments sound very like the other one which turned out to be fit for the scrap man (or banger raced by s as it turned out).

Just need the "If you are thinking of selling let me know" comments, then we can have a big pistonheads circle jerk discussion about how people who lease new cars are idiots when they could buy a car like this for the cost of the deposit.

A week later expect a series of expensive failures before it turns out you can't give them away and you end up swapping it for some gold sovereign rings.

Does that just about save us 15 pages and several weeks of posts?

[BrettMRC]

You miserable !

[C70R]

Slow said:

Play in steering, mentioned on last mot so assume same bit?
Vibration when braking - linked to above as new front discs recently?

Good luck with that. The suspension setup is annoyingly complex, and can result in expensive replacement bills. This thread might be a help with troubleshooting: http://www.benzworld.org/forums/general-mercedes-b...