Just heard back from the seller. My car was updated in October 2020 as part of a service for the princely sum of £43.53 plus VAT so I’d be checking a MB main dealer before buying an upgrade anywhere else.

Picked my car up this morning and I just realised it doesn’t have a sunglasses holder…

Lol. I bought two of these, only in the light grey:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124963055945

There are aftermarket and genuine Merc ones available, new or used, but they all seem to be the same price.

They go in place of the grab handles, and there are videos on how to fit them. Takes a bit more persuasion than you’ll want to exert on your nice new luxury car but it’s ok in the end. Having two is quite handy.

Mine is nice and smooth since the engine and tranny service, and I put in a new battery. It was on the original, which at 9 years old had done fairly well. The stop/start was barely working even though it started fine, and the battery test showed it was only giving out 400A instead of 800. With a new battery the stop/start light goes green almost straight away if you don’t have the heating on, and there’s no judder whatsoever when it does.

Do you have the AMG sport kit on yours?

Thanks. I’ll order one of those later.

I think I do have the AMG sport kit, it’s certainly got 19” AMG wheels. I’d have to check the dealer printout to be sure.

Apparently they are ok if you have Airmatic. If there’s a button next to the command wheel with something like sport/comfort on it or one that looks like a car lowering, you might. There will be one with E/S/M on it as well, that’s for the transmission.

Can’t see a button like that. On one side of the command wheel is the back button and on the other is a button marked “C”. I haven’t looked at the manual yet to see what it’s for.

There appears to be a Mercedes Me dongle in the car, but I haven’t found it yet.

Morning everyone.

So on this particular engine I have, there are two common problems. One is the inlet manifold not being bolted on properly, as we’ve seen. The other is that the timing chain can wear prematurely. This is noticeable by a few seconds of rattling on a cold start.

Guess what?

On one side of the command wheel is the back button and on the other is a button marked “C”. I haven’t looked at the manual yet to see what it’s for.

C is for cancel I suppose – it’s the delete key for when you are entering text.

Don’t press the other one?

Picked my car up this morning and I just realised it doesn’t have a sunglasses holder…

Christ! I didn’t think it was possible these days to buy any car without a sunglasses holder! For most of the last four years whenever I did arrivals checks on cars, it was part of the process to check for any glasses/sunglasses that had been left in by mistake, and I cannot believe that a luxury vehicle like a Merc wouldn’t have one. Certainly my EcoSport has one, and I keep a pair of sunglasses in it.
I’ve moved out of logistics at work, so I won’t have much chance to check any of the Mercs we have on site; the V12 S600 has the keys locked away to remove any temptation for a quick run up the road… 😉

I cannot believe that a luxury vehicle like a Merc wouldn’t have one

I think they all do these days. Seems to have been a bit of an oversight on the ones Doomaniac and I have, or maybe it was an option since the part exists.

I wont get a luxury vehicle then, I dont wear sunglasses

Mine’s now got two sunglasses holders, one on each side. That’s proper luxury that is.

Most of us just call them doors.

Takes a bit more persuasion than you’ll want to exert on your nice new luxury car but it’s ok in the end.

You weren’t kidding! Fitted mine today, thanks for the link.

Well, the timing chain was apparently fine as were the guides, but the tensioner had failed. £500 to fix, but the warranty has paid half. So I think I am now ahead – they’ve paid me more than I’ve paid them.

I figured out what the juddering/vibration was. Having cleaned the MAF, the idle speed was every so slightly higher which meant that it vibrated at idle once warm. This allowed me to track it down. I thought it was the engine cover at first, which was a little loose so I put tape around the little knobbles it clips to which made it more secure. But then I realised that it was actually the air intake tube, the flimsy piece before the air filter that was vibrating and booming. This is held up by a clip to the plastic bit at the front of the engine bay which I’d tried to secure before but failed. This time I just stuffed a piece of high density closed cell foam under it, which both raised and secured it – done. Much smoother at idle and even a bit better driving.

Bit of an oversight on the part of the designers, I reckon. There’s no need for the plastic to be that flimsy.

opens thread in excitement!

Is disappoint.

I miss the Passat

Well, it’s a conclusion of sorts. The judder was the first issue I noticed, it’s point 5 on the first page!

There is no conclusion Molls

EVER!

Are you sure your high density foam won’t melt when the engine bay gets hot? I came up with a ‘solution’ in an engine bay once that did, with a similar material … on the plus side it just melted rather than burst into flames. Just saying.

Yeah I worried a bit about that, but it’s right at the front by the bonnet catch so not near anything hot.

Until it vibrates loose and drops onto something hot..

I miss the Passat

What happened to the Passat? Asking for a friend

This time I just stuffed a piece of high density closed cell foam under it

I hope you took the complete dash out for Maximum Molgrips-ness?

It was sold (cheaply) and is apparently still running. Needed a new CV joint boot last MOT

Obvs access was via the boot…

I hope you took the complete dash out for Maximum Molgrips-ness?

I considered doing that when the Aircon specialist told me the evaporator was damaged. Fortunately they were wrong and it wasn’t, but not before they drained the refrigerant and we did a whole summer holiday without AC including the first few days of that heat wave.

There are couples celebrating their golden wedding anniversaries who have had less complicated or eventful relationships than you and that car.

Whereas the Passat is always there at the back of your mind. The childhood sweetheart that you sometimes think of whimsically in quiet moments

What could have been…

Good god has it been a year!?!? What just happened to a year of my life.

The childhood sweetheart that you sometimes think of whimsically in quiet moments

What could have been…

ah yes, I still miss Louise…

Whereas the Passat is always there at the back of your mind. The childhood sweetheart that you sometimes think of whimsically in quiet moments

I kept a numberplate from the Passat, I’m going to hang it on my wall like you see in those American themed restaurants only with more personal significance.

The childhood sweetheart that you sometimes think of whimsically in quiet moments

I miss my Citroen Dyane.

Easier to work on than my bike.
Probably fewer components too.

Tool kit consisted of a screwdriver, a grease gun (kingpins) and an adjustable spanner.

7. Bonnet is so big I can barely reach to close it.

Iirc you aren’t the tallest?

HTH 😄😬