After a wonderful last few months with the Merc CLS, it decided to throw a fit. Big style. Just outside Boston Lincs - thankfully I wasn't at the helm so no blame on this man
The turbo blew (shredded itself apparently), an oil pipe burst, sprayed hot oil onto the engine and the air intake swallowed gallons of it - all in about 10 seconds
Lots of smoke, no power and worst of all, no warning signals anywhere in the car of impending doom and destruction.
The diagnosis from the garage wasn't great either.
New turbo, new pipes, new catalytic convertors and DPF and a massive clean down.
To top all this off BOTH front AMG alloys have un-repairable cracks in the alloys!
(from a manufacturing defect)
Bugger.
Oh, and the cherry on the cake is that a co-worker has got my 159
and this week I'm mostly feeling like a camp hairdresser in a brand spanking new, loaned, automatic..........................
Metallic red Merc SLK 200k......
Oh the shame.
I'm going to take some piccies of the 'beast'
tomorrow to give you all a giggle.
My god it's underpowered (even if it makes an ok-ish noise), but I have so say feels so very well planted on the road.
Full report on Friday for all you budding Nicki Clarkes (sp?) to compare it to the Alfa Spider 2.2 JTS that I drove a few months back
