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Message: <blockquote data-quote="camcondor" data-source="post: 51665" data-attributes="member: 23">Thanks Linda, I got quite excited about it as I had already trawled eBay and found nothing, but its not the MBSS siren used in the models up to 1999......mores the pity!!! Found one at Mercland specialist breakers for £62 including courier - has a 6 month warranty on it. Suppose its worth a try rather than having to put a new alarm /immob system in for £300.....and I should be able to fit it easily myself without troubling the main stealership.......diagnosis of the fault cost £103 today and a 2 and a half hour wait at Mercedes Leicester.......I suppose they at least fixed a few blown bulbs and an earth wire as well in the price and it wasn't a booked appointment, just a spec. At least they usually help when one drives in in some distress, but it certainly costs!!! A few weeks back, again in Leicester, the Hyundai front driving beams failed and the Wigston Hyundai dealership price for an electrical check by auto electrician and new bulbs was under £30.....the price of the Merc name I guess!!!I'm fed up with poorly vehicles.....:Sad:Isuppose we've got too many elderly cars!!   The old Rangie was clobbered on the way back from Peterborough by a truck undertaking me on the left where the road narrowed on the Leicester ring road  in November - body repair was a stagerring £2000 but at least insurance picked up that tab. I thought that I may as well have an oil leak sorted while it was away, and the air suspension pump decided to finally call it a day as well as the air conditioning blower motor.....ENOUGH you would think......but the oil leak wasn't where we thought it was, but from the back of one of the heads. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite17" alt=":cry:" title="Crying    :cry:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cry:" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite17" alt=":cry:" title="Crying    :cry:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cry:" />    Then Xmas sodding well arrives and the engineering workshop decided to close up for festivities early and the heads lay in waiting till today......so......no Rangie and awful weather forecast for the next few days. :Sad: Bother..........if only I could have a new car every few years like most other people seem to do!!!!!!!! Not the best mechanical start to the New Year I've ever had   <img src="/forum/styles/default/xenforo//smilies/oldsmilies/eek2.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":Eeek:" title="Eeek    :Eeek:" data-shortname=":Eeek:" />Laurie</blockquote>