Please play nicely. No one wants to listen/read a keyboard warriors rants....
Just for clarification MOT and Vehicle Tax are linked together on the DVLA System but not Insurance, they scrapped that idea years ago when they scrapped the Tax Disk
Àbviously you need Insurance to drive a car, you need an MOT to Tax a Car but that's it, you don't need Insurance to Tax, Un Tax, Re Tax, New Keeper Tax, SORN or Un SORN etc, can all be done without Insurance
Never really found it very strenuous to adjust the rear view mirror must be a strain to some poor folk..😄
Both my mother and sister slide the seat almost to the front of the runner, and have the back almost upright. I don't do either but in all the cars we've driven between us, I've never needed to adjust any of the mirrors to use them. Why would you need to move the screen mirror just because the light has changed?
An auto-dipping mirror is nice to have, but it's hardly essential.
Far too many features are gimmicks because they are poorly implemented: electric windows that are only one touch down but not up - Ford compound this by only having it on the driver's door; full closure that requires you to hold the button on the remote for as long as it takes, when it ought to be included in the dead locks; electric seats without memories; mood lighting - it's utterly ghastly; haven't seen this for a while, but remote adjustable door mirror only on the driver's door - clearly specced by someone who had never seen a car, let alone driven one; screens that display text to tell you your door is open, but only an EML that could mean anything; electric boot releases that don't open with the engine running; mechanical keys and a start button; interior lights that a make a glow worm look bright; controls that are not obvious how they work, like pulling the light switch to turn on the courtesy light or just scattering controls randomly around the dash; considering how much electronic crap is in a modern car, why do none have continuously variable wiper speeds - one knob to go from off, through various intermittent delays to full speed; electric closers that are so slow operated by sensors that are so poor you look like you need a piss rather than trying to open the boot; I could go on.
One of the things that make older cars more appealing is they have none of this stuff, so it isn't infuriating when it doesn't work properly.
Never really found it very strenuous to adjust the rear view mirror must be a strain to some poor folk..😄I don't find it strenuous either, just bemused as to why a 20 odd yr old main stream car has an electric interior mirror & modern expensive cars don't
Nobody else drove my R Class but seats were moved to hoover & both front seats needed to be moved forward a little to drop the middle seat backs flat.Mercedes dropped the electrically adjustable interior mirror when the facelifted the W140 S Class in '94... Prior to that, and unlike the Omega one, it was fully adjustable from the mirror switch. Mine has fully electric seats, but no memory, but not an issue as no one else drives itElectric seat adjustment has manual adjustment beat on refining position, and very few modest cars have them even as an option. Even some cars that should have full electric only have partial electric adjustment which leaves you with the worst of both
I never realised how much I used the memory seats on my Omega until I bough the RClass. The seats were fully electric but no memory, which meant that it seemed to take an age to get the seat back to how you wanted it when it was moved fro whatever reason.
My ML has both electric column & seats with memory ..... but manual interior mirror!
Easily retrofitted though, so I may yet do that...
Electric seat adjustment has manual adjustment beat on refining position, and very few modest cars have them even as an option. Even some cars that should have full electric only have partial electric adjustment which leaves you with the worst of both
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It certainly was....At the time there was a good selection of different yards - are they all still there?
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from a scrap yard in Bury. .......
on the Merc forum were cured by a new sensor.See, on a Jaaaaagggg forum, all the advice would be "take it to a dealer, and drink their coffee whilst they fix it".
You need a decent car
I must admit, most of the advice is take it to a dealer and get it connected to Star
Money seems to be no object to some of them.
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You do know that most people would buy a new lock for a tenner and put up with having to use two keys? or spend £40 and have an unworn lock that matches the car?
While I could strip and rebuild lock cylinders, there's no way I could justify the time and faffing about. Especially as I've experienced the very real problems that faulty ignition cylinders cause.
I did it in work's time so could justify the time spent!
raid some glove box locks ......As Andy says, you have a spare and little used lock in your glove box, same key. They re quite fun to overhaul too, there is a guide on this forum. Don't get over confident and pull they key out with the lock cylinder out of the barrel, though, or all the springs and slides will ping out and vanish on the carpet.
Second hand orVX
Secondhand lock cylinders?
Just, NO
Outside of an emergency, there is never a place on a car for a jubliee/wormdrive clip. Thats why everyone moved over to the more reliable clips.
I appreciate some people believe points and carburettors are so much better than modern engine management systems, but its time to understand the world has moved to a better place.
