What have you done to your car today?

mattyprice4004 · 3 Oct 2015 at 11:16

ShiWarrior said:
yesterday, battery died, so bought a new one
think it was still the original one on there, not bad for a 2009 car

Not bad, so far my record is a 2003 car having its original in 2014. Only died because I left it off the car outside in very cold weather...

CaptainRAVE · 3 Oct 2015 at 11:20

About to go out and clean all of the tree sap off it

Prewash and clean this weekend, final clean next weekend ready for Silverstone

CaptainRAVE · 3 Oct 2015 at 17:20

Snow foamed with Autoglym pressure wash (underneath too)
Washed with Autoglym shampoo using two bucket method
Clayed the worst hit parts
Autosol polished the exhaust tips in and out (that stuff is amazing)
Resin polished 3 times
Waxed with HD wax
Cleaned the doors, some seals and the engine bay with Autoglym engine degreaser (brilliant stuff)
Cleaned the windows with rainx window cleaner in and out.

My hands are dry and cut, but at least the car is ready to get dirty in the storms next week

. Hasn't been this clean in months, probably since before the summer. Mainly wanted to do a thorough clean to make it easier to clean next Saturday afternoon.

Bit of a picture taking fail with my finger in the way though

SoliD · 3 Oct 2015 at 17:53

Made the brake sensor warning come on! Great.... Oh gave it some new rear tyres too!

ShiWarrior · 3 Oct 2015 at 18:41

nice Merc, think im going to try and persuade my Dad to get that over the normal SLK, love that!

On Holiday · 3 Oct 2015 at 20:26

(Pic from yesterday)

In retrospect I should've had a look under there before I thought I could get away with only buying the anti-roll bar

Got about 1/3rd of the way there.
No drop links are on.
Other support mount (the short bar) isn't fitted as the bolt wouldn't come out.

Once it's come back to me with the full suspension setup I'm going to get it on the ramp, clean the chassis, grind the rust/corrosion away and seal it all.

crinkleshoes · 3 Oct 2015 at 21:07

Fit new disks and pads... took me about 6 hours and I'm a little knackered but I guess it's OK for a first time :S

Brocky120 · 3 Oct 2015 at 21:41

CaptainRAVE said:
Snow foamed with Autoglym pressure wash (underneath too)
Washed with Autoglym shampoo using two bucket method
Clayed the worst hit parts
Autosol polished the exhaust tips in and out (that stuff is amazing)
Resin polished 3 times
Waxed with HD wax
Cleaned the doors, some seals and the engine bay with Autoglym engine degreaser (brilliant stuff)
Cleaned the windows with rainx window cleaner in and out.

My hands are dry and cut, but at least the car is ready to get dirty in the storms next week . Hasn't been this clean in months, probably since before the summer. Mainly wanted to do a thorough clean to make it easier to clean next Saturday afternoon.

Bit of a picture taking fail with my finger in the way though

Cracking engines in them 55 AMG's!!

Jez · 3 Oct 2015 at 22:20

Brocky120 said:
Cracking engines in them 55 AMG's!!

The SLK was never fitted with the 55k engine found in the larger 55 amg models, it's just the n/a 360hp version in the SLK

pepsilol · 4 Oct 2015 at 00:18

The theory was that the Mrs wouldn't require exactly the same engine as the husbands SL55.

Blackhawk47 · 4 Oct 2015 at 07:37

[TW]Fox;28637564 said:
Can't you unlock an Audi from your phone?

Not on a 10 year A3 m8.

Jez · 4 Oct 2015 at 07:41

pepsilol said:
The theory was that the Mrs wouldn't require exactly the same engine as the husbands SL55.

Howard · 4 Oct 2015 at 08:09

Jez said:
The SLK was never fitted with the 55k engine found in the larger 55 amg models, it's just the n/a 360hp version in the SLK

Which, in something the size of a shoe, is probably more than enough

Jez · 4 Oct 2015 at 09:21

Size of a shoe maybe, but the SLK being typical Mercedes actually probably weighs as much if not more than your Mondeo

Howard · 4 Oct 2015 at 09:26

WEIGHT SPECIFICATIONS
UNLADEN WEIGHT 3472 lbs OR 1575 kg

OK point taken.

Still, I wouldn't sniff at 360bhp in my Mondeo

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Jez · 4 Oct 2015 at 09:35

To be honest im not knocking the car anyway i was only pointing out to the great engine comment that it unfortunately isnt actually the same as the unit in the larger 55 AMG cars

Its still a fast car with a cool engine

rodenal · 4 Oct 2015 at 10:28

It's a v8 anyway isn't it?

geekman · 4 Oct 2015 at 12:20

I never understood why they didn't put the 55k engine in it. I know it's still a very quick car, but 500bhp in a car like that would just be incredible.

Armageus · 4 Oct 2015 at 13:14

rodenal said:
It's a v8 anyway isn't it?

Yep and makes a great noise. My boss used to own one, his brother had a G55 amg which was awesome as well.

Kenai · 4 Oct 2015 at 13:23

geekman said:
I never understood why they didn't put the 55k engine in it. I know it's still a very quick car, but 500bhp in a car like that would just be incredible.

Experienced 600bhp in one that shape, was absolutely ballistic, mad little car. Was a kleemann tuned example, sounded awesome too.