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Post by Humph on Aug 23, 2018 14:44:47 GMT
37mpg?
Blimey! Must be an old tech model right? One of those outdated gas guzzling 6 cylinder Stone Age engines?
Mine got over 60mpg on a run to the East coast and back this week, 360 miles and no trouble at all in more than keeping up with the traffic while fully laden.
Efficient four pot y'see. Averaged 49mpg over its 82,000 miles to date.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2018 16:23:51 GMT
That's very good, but presumably you were wearing ear defenders at the time???
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Post by Humph on Aug 23, 2018 16:35:20 GMT
Only when going past Manchester...rum lot there you know.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2018 6:12:22 GMT
That sound is the cheers from the Etihad and the boos at Old Trafford.
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Post by WDB on Aug 24, 2018 9:05:08 GMT
It must be exciting when a new truckload of money arrives.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2018 9:27:19 GMT
It is. My team, having achieved promotion to the Premier League recently, was in receipt of a truckload of about £80m I believe. This was very exciting. So they've spent £100m on new players and lost the first two games. I are not so excited any more.
Madness.
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Post by WDB on Aug 24, 2018 9:33:20 GMT
Are they still your team with all those new players? (Assuming you get more than one for £100m.)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2018 9:54:02 GMT
It's still "my" club, yes. The team is a fluid concept. The team which started our most recent match had 7 new players in the starting 11. I'm not entirely convinced this level of change was necessary, nor even an entirely good thing. Very risky. Time will tell and I hope to be proven wrong.
I think the most pleasure I get from any sporting even these days is the Six Nations Rugby, whereas it was always football in the past. The latter has lost a bit of its sheen for me, although my day out at Wembley for the Championship play off final this year ranks as one of the best sporting occasions I've had the pleasure to attend. I wouldn't be saying that if we'd lost, though.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2018 18:50:20 GMT
At seven years old the car is due an A service. I rang the Mercedes dealers and was quoted £185. Probably not doing much other than changing the oil and carrying out various checks (and finding something consumable to charge me for..) but its not a fortune to keep an expensive and complicated vehicle properly maintained and within the Mobilo Life roadside assistance scheme.
I keep thinking about going to an independent for a service and I know that the B service due next year will be expensive. But interestingly, as the car is within the Mercedes network I have discovered that the car is due a minor recall (to have a sticker stuck on somewhere!) and the car can be connected to my phone via the Mercedes & Me app for free. Don't know if this will benefit me, as I suspect the car is too old to make it worthwhile.
46,700 miles after 6 years 11.5 months.
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Post by Avant on Oct 13, 2018 22:29:06 GMT
The usual advice, especially from people on the HJ forum, is to go independent once the car is out of warranty. But I'm not so sure in the case of cars like yours which are still worth something: not only are you to some extent buying peace of mind, but the couple of hundred extra that you may pay will probably come back to you when eventually you sell it with full Mercedes service history.
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Post by WDB on Oct 14, 2018 10:52:05 GMT
Yes - see the very first page of this discussion! As it turned out, nobody was all that interested in the service history of our E220 when we sold it at nine years. I certainly couldn't say we recouped the difference between five Mercedes dealer services and the independent equivalent, but it was a complex car with the potential for expensive failures (torque converter, rear self-levelling...  ) so a precautionary check from a fully-equipped workshop certainly aided peace of mind. The CLS is due for an A7 service this month, and I'll be treating that the same way. Yer HJ reader may take a different view of his Jazz or Astra, of course.  |
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Post by Humph on Oct 14, 2018 11:34:59 GMT
I think depends a bit on your future plans for the car. If you wanted to keep something long term, then you'd probably do worse than choose a proper RWD Merc with a TC box and keep it properly serviced.
If, though, you're the sort who changes every two or three years, then you might as well try to do that as cheaply as you can to offset the depreciation losses you are more or less sure to be incurring.
My previous E went to 186,000 I think it was, without any hitches, and this one is knocking on for 90,000 so far with a similarly trouble free record. The old one still looked like new on the odd occasions when I cleaned it to find out, and the "new" one seems to be holding together equally well.
Pretty robust cars in my opinion. You could probably keep yours more or less indefinitely given your low mileage. If you wanted to.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2018 16:09:06 GMT
That's the question. At the moment I have no great desire to change. I keep thinking about changing in 'a couple of years' but for the time being it could easily be three, four or even just running it till it becomes an embarrassment and Espadrille demands I replace it.
I like the idea of a much smaller car, but I would still want comfort and performance. We went out last night with some friends who have a Captur; they bought it on my advice. Yes the doors are a bit clangy but it has never gone wrong and Espadrille commented on the comfort and space of the rear seats.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2018 16:16:50 GMT
The thought that MB servicing will affect it's sale price is false, I think. It may affect it's saleability, and I'm not even sure about that, but certainly not it's price.
The idea that MB servicing will necessarily be any better than good independent servicing is also wrong.
However, full MB Servicing will bring advantages with recalls, warranties and software upgrades.
Consequently, if I thought I was, or at least thought it likely, to keep the car from sometime then I would continue the MB approach.
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Post by Humph on Oct 14, 2018 16:18:50 GMT
There are some cars you can sort of "get away with" keeping for ages. Volvos and Mercs in particular seem to wear their years well. A pal of mine in Edinburgh still has a 190E he bought new round about 1990 I think. Still looks and drives perfectly fine and he has no plans at all to change it, even though he could more than easily afford to. Gets him to work, the golf club, the airport and the supermarket sort of thing. Don't think he does huge miles so it's probably still shy of 200,000.
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) so a precautionary check from a fully-equipped workshop certainly aided peace of mind. The CLS is due for an A7 service this month, and I'll be treating that the same way.