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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2018 11:37:27 GMT
Appreciate it's an older model and different gearbox, but I always leave mine in S. I think it pulls away in second in C mode, which I'd rather not do most of the time, particularly in town/rush hour traffic. No paddles on mine.
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Post by WDB on Aug 20, 2018 13:01:52 GMT
Mercedes forum types love this idea that it pulls away in second but I think it’s a myth, possibly left over from the old days of ‘winter’ modes. I tried to detect it in the old E220 but never could; there was always a gearchange soon after moving off in either mode. And forcing it manually into 1 felt no different. It started in 1, whatever the mode.
And the 7G+ in the CLS clearly shows ‘D1’ at rest in the instrument display, every time.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2018 13:08:04 GMT
Al, how's that Merc going after its gearbox trauma? Was the recon effective?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2018 13:08:17 GMT
I'll have to have a play. Don't get out in it much these days, but will be hauling it to West Wales and back this weekend.
The car is spot on after the TC rebuild. Few little issues like a bust parking sensor to track down, but I've just pulled the fuse so it doesn't annoy me. |
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Post by WDB on Aug 20, 2018 13:15:27 GMT
MrsB1 can fix that parking sensor for you. She reversed the E into several things that people had left in the wrong place (including a cricket pavilion) and when the car came back with a resprayed bumper, the troublesome parking sensors were as good as gold — for about a year anyway.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2018 13:28:34 GMT
Yeah, it might be a case of them needing to be cleaned or something. But I can't be arsed and I find that the vehicle's lead female operative finds fewer things left in the wrong place by other people, like your cricket pavilion, such as car park walls and metal barriers, when she doesn't have the sensors operational. Focuses the mind better when they're not there to rely on.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2018 15:30:33 GMT
Actually I think I was in S already thinking about it. I tend to use flappy paddles to use engine braking on slip roads. The effortlessness of the car improves significantly in S for obvious reasons, but very welcome with five passengers.
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Post by WDB on Aug 21, 2018 7:49:48 GMT
Do your paddles flap? Mine emphatically don’t; they move about as far as a mouse button.
Counterintuitively, I find myself making more manual gear adjustments in the 600 Nm CLS than I ever did in the 400 Nm E. It may be in the gearbox programming; even in S it tends to drift into 5 or 6 on country roads, where 4 might feel more appropriate. Or it’s just that I have the gears to choose from; in the E, 2 was too low to do more than make noise, while 4 and 5 were hard to tell apart, so other than engine braking on descents, or the occasional pre-select of 3 for an overtake, there wasn’t much on offer.
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 21, 2018 7:57:00 GMT
Do your paddles flap? Mine emphatically don’t; they move about as far as a mouse button. ...you know some of the best chat-up lines, don't you........  |
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Post by WDB on Aug 21, 2018 7:58:08 GMT
It’s never failed me yet.
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 21, 2018 8:02:31 GMT
It's definitely up there with "You don't sweat much for a fat lass!"
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2018 11:54:01 GMT
OK. Clicky paddles then.
Yesterday the car clicked over 25,000 miles in my ownership. Purchased at 20,965 miles on 1 November 2015 this morning it rolled over 45,000 miles.
560 miles for the trip to Edinburgh, it was fueled this morning using 64 litres which is about 37mpg. I think that's ok for a large, heavy, fully laden estate cruising mainly at 75mph.
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Post by WDB on Aug 23, 2018 12:35:20 GMT
OK. Clicky paddles then. Yesterday the car clicked over 25,000 miles in my ownership. Purchased at 20,965 miles on 1 November 2015 this morning it rolled over 45,000 miles. So you just clicked over 24,035 miles. 🤓 My average for the Alsace-Bodensee circuit was 34.7mpg over 2260 miles. Roughly half of it with the bike carrier attached — and most of that with the bikes as well. 😟 I’d challenge your mpg calculation, though. 560 / 64 x 4.5461 = 39.8 |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2018 14:11:50 GMT
Doh.. fat fingers.
Yes 46,000 miles and 68 litres. Trying to type on the tram is not easy.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2018 14:13:41 GMT
Your 34.7mpg is very good and presumably a reflection of better aerodynamics without the bike carrier.
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