[DEVOURS]

Great additional photos and don't forget to take the rear photos once again in about a years time. I hope that they look almost the same as the nice photos here.

My fronts still look just like new but the rear disks always take a bit of "maintenance cleanup" each spring.

 

[gole]

Hey Canadians... is any BenzWorld summit here in Europe for which I dont know!?

Long way from home for sure... think more than 8000km is Alberta from my place. 10h flight from my airport to Edmonton for sure. Wonder route and cost of getting car here...
Must protect him to locals dont steal licence plates for souvenire.

 

[DEVOURS]

Also remeber that many stolen vehicles end up someowhere in Europe and they sometimes still drive around with the Canadian plates on them. We recently had an investigation showing how they traced the vehicles over to Europe after they left the port of Montreal and were usually never seen again.

Many stolen vehicles are all over Europe and our police can't touch these bad guys. Naturally, not all are stolen but far too many are.

 

[gole]

Also remeber that many stolen vehicles end up someowhere in Europe and they sometimes still drive around with the Canadian plates on them. We recently had an investigation showing how they traced the vehicles over to Europe after they left the port of Montreal and were usually never seen again.

Many stolen vehicles are all over Europe and our police can't touch these bad guys. Naturally, not all are stolen but far too many are.

true my friend... dont know who will go here with a car!? Too expensive for only visit a relativies...

 

[Mike Ti]

LOL @ the "CAN" sticker on the back. Trying to be legal, but without a clue.

Under the 1948 traffic treaty, it's "CDN".

 

[gole]

He he... stolen for sure.

 

[Nikolakisjunior]

220KMs and I had some micro boosts and downs when driving . No check engine light . Checked the codes and I found some pending , so I decide to go

Deep in and clean the throttle body and all the sensors around ! Worked like a charm . Now the B idles like a sleeping Baby and the throttle is very responsive.
Seems like the previous owner was missing some care in his B .

 

[DEVOURS]

Nice work in there and I've yet to have a look deep inside mine. That sure was a lot of black residue in there gumming the works up for sure.

 

[eliofer]

so the 12v socket/cigarette lighter was providing power but it wouldn’t lock in place any plug in device (otherwise useless) so after searching for a new socket and finding out that part number was discontinued … I decided to purchase some Amazon’s 12v replacements and found these; one with a voltmeter reading and on they went… (in hindsight, the “marine 12v socket” placement I would have place it somewhere else as there is not much room if plug-in a typical “long” device)

 

[DEVOURS]

I also picked up one of those cute voltage indicators ..+ USB plug in's...No money..from China.

 

[Rushfan1]

Watched the odometer turn over to 60 000 km on my B200 Turbo 😍. The engine is still being broken in compared to some others on this board.

 

[eliofer]

Just added a little more oomph to the radio set up
! Now the speakers are keeping up with the subwoofer level and sounds more balanced.

 

[eliofer]

As the top coat was peeling off I decided to apply a wrap on top to more or less tie up with the dash dial colour

 

[Rushfan1]

Synthetic 0W40 Mobil 1 oil change after 1 year between changes and 7000 km.

 

[DEVOURS]

Yes, me also. I often use Mobil extended 5W30 or Pennz Ultra and I often go more than a year between changes. I change at ~10,000 km. Royal Purple or Amsoil would also be fantastic oils for our cars...but more difficult to get our hands on up here.

My dealer at the beginning offered Quaker State 5W30 for all B's...I said "no thanks"..They didn't believe that the German recommendation applied to the lowly B Class over here.
I learned very quickly that the dealer doesn't have all of the appropriate answers on how to maintain a car.

 

[Mike Ti]

7000 km!

Our B gets its oil changed at between 15 and 19K km - however much driving is done in a year. Mobil 1 0W40. 334K km so far. Well under 0.2 L is used by the engine over up to 19K km. Amazing.

 

[Rushfan1]

7000 km!

Our B gets its oil changed at between 15 and 19K km - however much driving is done in a year. Mobil 1 0W40. 334K km so far. Well under 0.2 L is used by the engine over up to 19K km. Amazing.

I have no problem making annual oil changes, those 7000 km include a lot of short trips. In fact from November to April, I would say 95% of all driving are cold starts at 2 km at a time several times per day.

Your lack of oil consumption is indeed amazing. I have noticed minimal oil consumption as well and I did not have to add anything between changes.

As for my 1980 BMW, I also change the oil (non synthetic) yearly as well even though the annual summer only mileage is in the hundreds and not thousands. 😀