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Post by crankcase on Nov 18, 2016 14:04:32 GMT
That's pretty cool - the Volvo thing is horrid, with the push button "parking brake" shoved down by your right knee. S320CDi next time it is, then.
And I don't like shining my brake lights at people either, pretty much only because I don't like have it done to me. Which always seems like a pretty reasonable maxim for life.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2016 14:14:49 GMT
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Post by crankcase on Nov 18, 2016 14:26:03 GMT
HJ said once they were good. I remember reading it. It must be true.
Be crazy, but not actually that crazy perhaps. In the scheme of things. Such as they are. And it'll go on forever, that. Bound to.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2016 14:33:17 GMT
Not even remotely crazy at 3.5k. People are paying 30k for VW Golfs ferchrissakes.
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Post by crankcase on Nov 18, 2016 14:37:48 GMT
Not got distronic though, what use is that? Mind you, according to the ad the locks don't work either. It clearly says it's open 7 days a week.
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Post by WDB on Nov 18, 2016 14:41:30 GMT
£3,500 for the S, £26,500 left for the repairs.
I didn't know about the Hold-plus-N feature. It might explain why the first MB dealer salesman I talked to insisted it was possible to hold the car on the brakes without the lights showing.
On the other hand, yours is a pre-2006 car with SBC and mine is a later one without. Easy enough test to try, though.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2016 14:44:24 GMT
Naw, that S would last a few years, then scrap if necessary. It's only 6 months older than mine, how bad can it be?
What's distronic, cc?
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Post by WDB on Nov 18, 2016 15:01:00 GMT
A portmanteau word formed from...
'...electronic'...
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...'distress'.
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Post by crankcase on Nov 18, 2016 15:03:57 GMT
Distronic = Mercedes version of adaptive cruise. Comes in two flavours, since you ask, distronic and distronic plus. First version can moderate your speed to match car in front when driving, so you just need to steer, no pedals required. Disengages at low speed (about 20).
Plus version is the same but takes you down to zero and back up again with no pedals, so it's brilliant in traffic jams. Again, just steer.
The Volvo system, simply called adaptive cruise, works like the distronic plus in mine and and was a major feature for my purchase. I love it to bits, and when I get in the other car without it, I miss it so much I don't even use the standard cruise control. Ordinary cruise feels so primitive in comparison I prefer to you know, actually drive it instead.
PS if there was a way of marking WDB's post as amusing, I would do so. If only there was some sort of mechanism for that, like, oh I don't know, thumbs or something. But no forum would ever do that.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2016 15:07:57 GMT
Eeeeee. Sounds a bit modern and fangled for me. I don't even usually bother with cruise control. There's nowhere to put my right hoof.
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Post by crankcase on Nov 18, 2016 15:10:25 GMT
Same place as your left hoof. Well, not EXACTLY the same place, obviously. One side or the other is the general rule.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2016 15:16:45 GMT
Ain't no room to the right of my rightmost pedal in the E. Just a wheel arch. Only car I ever had which had a place to rest one's right hoof was the second Touran I had (DSG). My Mazda 6 doesn't have any room either.
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Post by crankcase on Nov 18, 2016 15:17:38 GMT
Under the seat it is then.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2016 15:25:21 GMT
Ah. Didn't realise you had the removable type.
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Post by crankcase on Nov 18, 2016 15:27:36 GMT
I guess if you got it horribly wrong they could become so.
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