Mercedes cars - what a disappointment!

[Andy in Germany]

The Mercedes satnav says "please turn right".who the heck says please in a satnav?

It's subliminal conditioning, a desperate attempt to teach Mercedes drivers manners.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

Golf and surprisingly to me an Astra estate were absolute joys.

I got an Astra Estate with one company - loved it. OK, I wrote the first one off when it was just 10 days old but the replacement was great.

 

[DRM]

I was watching a YouTube video the other day where a bloke had taken a 51 plate Merc S500 to a specialist for a repair quote, the thing was rotten along the wheel arches, bottoms of all four doors, leaky diff, air springs gone etc, the quote was £8200, yesterday there was a 51 plate S320 on an industrial estate where I was working, it had clearly been abandoned and was so rusty it was literally dissolving, in all the same areas as above, these were supposed to be the top of the range for Mercedes, I shudder to think what they cost new, when I got back to the van there was a 52 plate Polo parked next to the merc, not pampered but not a bit of rust to be seen on it

 

[DCBassman]

I was watching a YouTube video the other day where a bloke had taken a 51 plate Merc S500 to a specialist for a repair quote, the thing was rotten along the wheel arches, bottoms of all four doors, leaky diff, air springs gone etc, the quote was £8200, yesterday there was a 51 plate S320 on an industrial estate where I was working, it had clearly been abandoned and was so rusty it was literally dissolving, in all the same areas as above, these were supposed to be the top of the range for Mercedes, I shudder to think what they cost new, when I got back to the van there was a 52 plate Polo parked next to the merc, not pampered but not a bit of rust to be seen on it

Around that time, MB had been using inferior steel, and it came back to bite them, big time. My W211 series E Class has some rust, but acceptable for a car heading for 300,000 miles.