Can Anyone Recommend A Garage?

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Carl S. Keane
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I need my speedo repairing again before the MOT - anyone know a G friendly garage in the Hornchuch area of Essex?

Maxwell Smart
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I use a guy called George Fraser in the south of London but they will pick up your G from home. I think a few of their mechanics live in Essex so you could probably get one to pick it up from your house/work.

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I thought George Fraser was in the Wembley area?

peter perfect
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He is and my friend spent ££££'s with him and never cured the problem of the engine running rough and smoking badly in the morning, took it to someone else who I use and it runs like a dream. 280LWB which nows does 104mph. Turned out tobe new injectors and warm up regulators.

Carl S. Keane
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Well then Peter Perfect, best tell us who your man is?!

peter perfect
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Yeah, now the bad news, he's in Boston in Linc's. Not that near to Essex I'm afraid. But what is it you need doing as any none techincal repairs I use the guys that do all my vans and lorrys, i.e MOT, wheel bearings,TB and auto box removals etc. When it comes to getting engine running perfect its a trip to Boston.

ND Motors (really nice guys I Spend £30k with them a year) Park royal, Ian Nicholls 0208 965 3827

Spilsby road garage Boston Lincs01205 270241 (If you fancu the drive they can give you a merc courtesy car. These guys are so knowlegable on Mercs its un-real.

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Hmmm thanks PP Boston's only about an hour from me so think i'll take mine up there see if they can wring any more than 18mpg out of it :lol:

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if its a diesel then yes they should do. Speak to Nigel he is very good.

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eliot wrote:
Hmmm thanks PP Boston's only about an hour from me so think i'll take mine up there see if they can wring any more than 18mpg out of it :lol:

You should be getting an overall of 22 mpg

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wow, 22mpg- i would love that! Right now, I'm getting like 12 mpg or so.

I'm still looking for a good garage but havent found a good one. Does my engine seem to be behaving normally? Top speed seems to be about 80 mph and 12 mpg is pretty bad. Mind you, it is a 280ge petrol engine...

anyone in Nottingham or close to London that can sort any problems out?

thanks!

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GM3 wrote:
wow, 22mpg- i would love that! Right now, I'm getting like 12 mpg or so.

I'm still looking for a good garage but havent found a good one. Does my engine seem to be behaving normally? Top speed seems to be about 80 mph and 12 mpg is pretty bad. Mind you, it is a 280ge petrol engine...

anyone in Nottingham or close to London that can sort any problems out?

thanks!

There's obviously something wrong with your truck... you should be getting in excess of 95 mph and some 14 mpg

GM3
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ya i thought so. A friend mentioned something about engine compression to me but I don't understand what that means. :oops:

anyway, thanks Morty. By the way, i saw the article about you in this month's Mercedes Enthusiast, good article! I will be joining the GWOA myself once I get moved to London over the summer (seems as though their are more G friends down there!)

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Carl

I use a place in Whitechapel, they're not G specialists (and they're obviously not in essex) but they're great guys and will sort out most probs.

They're:

Mansell St Garage
Cannon Street Road
London E1
020 7480 6859