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General Discussion Area / Re: They are watching us!
« on: 17 February 2026, 21:00:13 »
George Orwell wasn't far off the mark .... 
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 16 February 2026, 17:27:37 »....
I go supermarket shopping 3/4 times a week. If I got arsey about inconsiderate parking, I would spend half my life complaining.
when we use my car for the supermarket shop, I park on the other side of the carpark to the store & put my nearside wheels on the white line to 'discourage' people from parking next to me
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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?
« on: 16 February 2026, 16:59:36 »Got back to a note on the windscreen.
"THANK YOU FOR YOU'RE INCONSIDERATE PARKING !
NEXT TIME ALLOW SPACE FOR OTHERS TO BE ABLE TO GAIN ACCESS TO THEIR VEHICLES....."
I wouldn't mind, but it is perfectly in the space... Centred and straight
Still at least they spelt 'their' correctly.
Oh, and definitely a girl from using a circle for the dot of the exclamation mark
I have 'history'
at work for where I park ie I routinely park my Smart where there is no marked space ..... but not in anyone's way. I recently parked it in a space but well over to one side .... but still within the white lines .. so that it gave me more room to open my driver's door without clouting the car next to me. I was 'shouted at' for not parking in the centre of the space by the lad who then parked to my passenger side because that reduced the amount of room he had to get out of his car.
You can please some of the people .......
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General Car Chat / Re: A simple disc and pad change...
« on: 16 February 2026, 08:31:03 »......
To Andy's earlier point, the pistons are aluminium and .....
I believe that some MB calipers even have some kind of plastic piston
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General Car Chat / Re: A simple disc and pad change...
« on: 15 February 2026, 21:32:56 »I've hundreds of them .... tiny 1.5mm up to 19mm & probably bigger. But as above, no 7mm or 11mm (did actaully have a 7 but it wouldn't fit in)
Same when I got the XE. One end needs a 7mm long hex key and I think that's an 11mm at the other end. Probably the same manufacturer of calipers. Fancy picking the two sizes that nobody will have in their toolbox.
Indeed ... fancy that ... obviously an oversight!
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General Car Chat / Re: A simple disc and pad change...
« on: 15 February 2026, 20:51:58 »I'd to go & buy a 7mm allen key and then later buy an 11mm allen key when I did brakes on the R Class. I went to various motor factors for them ... not a chance. Had to order off the interweb
I have an old coffee tin with probably more than 100 allen keys in it. Yet to come across a size I don't have.....so far.
I've hundreds of them .... tiny 1.5mm up to 19mm & probably bigger. But as above, no 7mm or 11mm (did actaully have a 7 but it wouldn't fit in)
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General Car Chat / Re: A simple disc and pad change...
« on: 15 February 2026, 10:51:09 ».... and if the bores are done then I won't be any better off. Notwithstanding that I would rather not leave the brake system open for that long.
The bore of a caliper is irrelevant .... the seal stays static in the bore while the piston slides through it ie the complete opposite of engines pistons
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General Car Chat / Re: A simple disc and pad change...
« on: 12 February 2026, 17:00:59 ».....
Needs a new caliper and my thought process is to fit a pair.
When my daughter's Yaris was suffering from a sticker caliper (only happened after new pads) I looked into a new pattern caliper. They weren't expensive but my thoughts were it'd be better to spend money & time fitting a new piston & seals to an OE caliper rather than using an unknown quality pattern replacement. In the end it was only about £20 for the parts to refurb the original caliper.
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General Car Chat / Re: A simple disc and pad change...
« on: 12 February 2026, 16:52:03 »
I'd to go & buy a 7mm allen key and then later buy an 11mm allen key when I did brakes on the R Class. I went to various motor factors for them ... not a chance. Had to order off the interweb
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General Car Chat / Re: I wish
« on: 11 February 2026, 15:29:53 »Yep. Everything done for you, no need to worry at all. Except, of course, when it gets foggy no one thinks they need to switch their lights on. Car will do it, won't it?
or turn them off afterwards. I eventually pulled level with a woman who had both front & rear fogs on, wound my window down & told her that her rear fogs were on .... just got a blank look off her (maybe I should have said it in Punjabi
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General Car Chat / Re: I wish
« on: 11 February 2026, 11:48:03 »
it does seem expensive .... though a few years back now, MB 'only' quoted me £550 to replace the front discs & pads on my ML, the parts themselves were around £350
.... though a few years back now, MB 'only' quoted me £550 to replace the front discs & pads on my ML, the parts themselves were around £350
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General Car Chat / Re: Disco Sport TD4...
« on: 11 February 2026, 11:07:37 »Clearly you don't dunk you car to the point it floats and shorts out the battery*....
Apparently a couple of days on charge has rectified the issue. Time will tell if it's a long term fix or if it needs a new aux battery.
My car is a 14 plate & still on its original batteries .... fingers crossed
*Well, the starter and/or alternator.
definitely not
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General Car Chat / Re: Disco Sport TD4...
« on: 11 February 2026, 08:33:59 »....
Apparently a couple of days on charge has rectified the issue. Time will tell if it's a long term fix or if it needs a new aux battery.
My car is a 14 plate & still on its original batteries .... fingers crossed
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General Car Chat / Re: Disco Sport TD4...
« on: 09 February 2026, 19:39:52 »Chap next door has just bought a '17 CLS350 and is having issues with Eco mode amongst other things. As the car fires up instantly, the consensus is that the aux battery is on its way out. Lent him one of my chargers to top it up to see if it's salvageable...I wouldn't know if my stop/start works or not. Disabling it is part of my pre-takeoff routine.
It took me a while to realise it didn't work for that very same reason
Some years back, MB gave me a courtesy car, needless to say a young woman followed me out to show me how to drive it
Unfortunately my Xentry only has prototype mode for the W212 and zero support for the 218. No codes apparent in the modules I can read.
I disconnected the two batteries on my car from each other a while ago .... pretty sure it was the aux battery on mine that was a little on the low side.
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General Car Chat / Re: Disco Sport TD4...
« on: 09 February 2026, 18:30:41 »I wouldn't know if my stop/start works or not. Disabling it is part of my pre-takeoff routine.
It took me a while to realise it didn't work for that very same reason
Some years back, MB gave me a courtesy car, needless to say a young woman followed me out to show me how to drive it
I only had 1 question .... wheres the stop/start button?