Sounds like a belt. Hard to say though. Do you mean actual AC or just the fan?

Is there a decent Merc owners’/enthusiast forum where you can get a more informed answer without the noise? You’ll likely find other people who’ve had the same issues and worked out the best solution. I’ve found the water-cooled VW forums brilliant for advice on specific faults, part suppliers and specialist independents and no-one’s ever been snide or condescending with me.

Yeah I’d thought of that. And a popular opinion is.. engine mounts…

“and simply remove the AC unit…”

lol.

Internet says easy. Mr Knob spends an hour upside down in the passenger footwell, swears, says not. I do suspect I just need to put a squirt on GT-85 on a spinning thing.

But to get the AC unit out I have to remove the glove box assembly which gets uncomfortably close to air bag gubbins.

I am out.

I do suspect I just need to put a squirt on GT-85 on a spinning thing.

My old Polo had a terrible squeaky rattle. After beating the crap out of the interior at various points I realised it was the fan. I fixed it by spraying plenty of WD40 into the air intake in the scuttle drain with the fan going. Worked well for ages til I got rid of it.

Leaves in the pollen filter

which gets uncomfortably close to air bag gubbins.

what d’you mean you don’t like to have your head next to some electrically fired chemical explosives…what could possibly go wrong?

Leaves in the pollen filter

This wont fix the engine mounts or the air con.

HTH

but will stop the trains

WD40 into the air intake in the scuttle drain with the fan going

Ah, crafty!

But it reminds me I need to change my pollen filter, good call there.

Aircon is witchcraft to me, but there are only a couple of moving parts to squeak, fan bearings? belt, bearings inside the motor thing that turns the belt?

Quite like the idea of a continually running ‘car problem’ thread.

Quite like the idea of a continually running ‘car problem’ thread.

Or even a non-running car problem thread 😉

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WD40 into the air intake in the scuttle drain with the fan going

Well, WD40 into the intakes worked well enough for FAA Buccaneers.

Quite like the idea of a continually running ‘car problem’ thread.

Would we be allowed to offer advice? 🙂

Yeah I’d thought of that. And a popular opinion is.. engine mounts…

Take that, binners!

Would we be allowed to offer advice?

Only if asked for 😉

Even my wife heard the vibration when I pointed it out. I think that I’ve had the car long enough to notice it and I know when it’s going to happen, but a test driving mechanic won’t necessarily. She also thought the car more grumbly sounding since we got it. A bit like me obvs.

There are people here that think they are hilarious but actually just tedious.

“I’m in this post and I don’t like it.”

However, people queued up to give me bad advice – I was told to hand the car back which I am NOT ENTITLED TO DO; I was told to take it back to the dealer to ask for them to fix it, WHICH I DID; I was told to leave it on their doorstep and demand a refund, BUT I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO GROUNDS TO DO THAT and they’d have laughed at me.

Yes you are and yes you do. Your statutory consumer rights don’t change even if you use capital letters. If you buy a used car from a dealer then you have the same rights as new, you can take it back for a refund within the first 30 days if it proves faulty.

It’s not bad advice, it’s just advice you didn’t want to hear and refused to listen to. That’s not everyone else’s fault.

If you buy a used car from a dealer then you have the same rights as new, you can take it back for a refund within the first 30 days if it proves faulty.

Yes but as I said at the time, what constitutes a fault is not well defined and open to a lot of arguing. As we have established, there’s plenty of doubt.

Sorry if I’ve missed the bit where you took it back to the selling dealer (and asked them to fix it) – I’ve read through the thread and had the impression you’d taken it to an indy Merc garage (and others places) for an assessment. What did the original dealer say when you took it back and asked them?

What did the original dealer say when you took it back and asked them?

They said it’s fine, of course, and the jerky shifting and rattle was to be expected on a Mercedes.

However they did say that it needed a software update so I can take it to Mercedes at their expense. I’ll ask them about the rattle. The problem is that it’s not obvious when you drive it for a few minutes, but after you’ve had it a while and been in a few queues of traffic you notice it.

Do you actually want to turn this thread into an infinite loop?

I’ve had an absolute motoring nightmare today…..our old Volvo that I tried swopping with Molgrips earlier in this thread failed it’s MOT after I’ve chucked £2.5k of parts and 6months of my time at it.
Bloody headlight bulb wasn’t seated properly and threw the pattern out. MOT man on his own short-staffed so I have to take it back tomorrow!

The shame of a blighted ‘MOT history check’ 😢

It’s a relief when it’s something simple.

Have you taken into account that it’s an in-line engine rather than transverse? My C-wagon gives a sideways judder when it’s running stop-start.

Mrs K knock the wheel arch trim off the Beater the other day.

I hammered it back on with a rubber mallet.

Ok – it might be that Molgrips hasn’t done everything exactly how those posting on this thread may have done, but it’s clear that this thread is starting to frustrate/upset him, so why don’t we all just leave it be, and leave it to Molgrips to update us if he wishes if he gets it fixed/it gets worse.

Molgrips may I suggest doing what we’ve just done with our 104k mile C250D estate which was starting to get spendy maintenence issues and take it to webuyanycar then find a way of living with just your EV.

Seems reasonable @towpathman

(BTW my “infinite loop” comment was directed at Dafydd17 rather than molgrips).

find a way of living with just your EV.

This is the only reason I run older cars – I reckon 2006 is the cut off for DIY tinkering after that DMF / DPF / adblue / hybrids etc just add increased complexity. When our Volvo/Golf/Transit die then 2nd gen EV’s will be in our budget.
EV’s can’t tow caravans yet though.

I really like the Hyundai and I’d be happy to stick with it but until my youngest finishes primary school in 11 or so months’ time we still need two cars. I’m not using one (yet), but I’m contractually obliged by work to have one or give up about £430/mo. Ok so I’ve now lost much of that on loan payments/insurance etc but we’ll get some of that back.

The Hyundai can’t tow a caravan so that’d scupper our family holidays really. Some EVs can, however, and whilst they are the expensive ones it’s still an option for one car. The issue currently would be heading off into rural Wales and finding a charger when your range is halved. I can’t wait to be rid of ICE, the time is coming for us but it’s not here yet.

I reckon 2006 is the cut off for DIY tinkering after that DMF / DPF / adblue / hybrids etc just add increased complexity.

Hybrids are pretty solid, and most 2006 diesels have DMFs I’d expect. We had a battery issue with the Prius, to be fair, but it was good otherwise. Probably cost us about a grand in repairs over the 15 years we had it.

molgrips, have you considered just not having the caravan? then you wouldn’t need the tow bar, or diesel car, and the saving would give you a rather excellent hotel…in Portugal.

I reckon 2006 is the cut off for DIY tinkering after that DMF / DPF / adblue / hybrids etc just add increased complexity.

Nah, both of mine are newer than that and no problem. Not by much mind but with a laptop and suitable interface it’s still all in reach.

“I’m in this post and I don’t like it.”

Lol, you tend to be more of a miserable shite TBF 😉

molgrips, have you considered just not having the caravan?

Yes, of course. We didn’t always have one, in fact…

Sometimes solutions come from just not doing something.

I hate caravans, my experience was it’s harder work than staying at home and when you arrive at a caravan site it’s like a housing estate on wheels, with everyone sitting outside their little wheeled houses drinking beer.

Then you use the same shower noooo, I didn’t like it.

I hate caravans, my experience was it’s harder work than staying at home and when you arrive at a caravan site it’s like a housing estate on wheels, with everyone sitting outside their little wheeled houses drinking beer.

Don’t stay in those sites then. There are alternatives.

This was our place for about 10 days. Down the hill in the foreground is a cove with a little beach, where we took the kayak and paddleboard. The Pembrokeshire coast path runs along the top of the cliff 300m or so away. The people either side of us left a few days after this pic so there was only one other van there. Also, our van has a toilet and a shower. Site was £10/night.

Dunno about you but our house isn’t in the Pembrokeshire coast national park and it doesn’t have a local secluded beach either 🙂

Then you use the same shower shitter noooo, I didn’t like it.

I rocked up to my plastic khazi on a French campsite and settled in for some quality ankle pins and needles time when I heard a loud grunting/graunching/plopping/sploshing noise from directly next door with a bit of gruff German that I mentally translated to mean ‘i don’t remember eating that’.

My turtle pulled its head back in and I figured I’d taken a trip to the nice Thailand island of No-kan-poo. I opened the door the same time as Helga the rotund Croc wearing German woman left the traps.

Nothing has put me off camping/caravan sites more than unisex communal toilets. At least in hotels you have the privacy to urinate into your bedside kettle.

That’s quite different from my caravanning experience, keep the caravan, car looks pretty nice there too, now if you had started the thread off with that…

I rocked up to my plastic khazi on a French campsite and settled in for some quality ankle pins and needles time when I heard a loud grunting/graunching/plopping/sploshing noise from directly next door with a bit of gruff German that I mentally translated to mean ‘i don’t remember eating that’.

I think I can smell it just reading that ha.

I got in a campsite shower once and the guy that just came out was still farting about doing something outside, then someone else came in and they struck up conversation with.. ‘have you ever pissed in a shower?’ and the answer was ‘oh loads of times’.