M4.... broken down
Eastbound on M4, between J14 & J13 (about 100yds from J14 actually, Hungerford/Wantage), a silver LWB, 463 on a '62 plate.
Sat on the back of a flatbed recovery truck... sad sight... Thursday 16/10/15 about 13.45hrs
Hopefully they will be getting the New Engine treatment FOC from Mercedes
It'll just be a piece of electronic crap stopped working........ would you take one into the outback????
There was a guy recently in Oz who took his new G350 out into the outback and his adblue sensor said the tank was empty so it went to limp home mode. Not so good when home is 4000kms away. The anti pollution gear is just so complex and of course it has to shut you down as it's self policing.
The sad fact is a great piece of off road kit is being emasculated by all the electronic gizmo's they are putting in it these days, add that to the fact that the MB accountants are now getting involved with the design input, I just hope that the G does not go the way of a lot of good vehicles. An off road vehicle with 16 sensors in the exhaust pipe alone..... all it takes is for one to be faulty and 'bam' into limp mode one goes.
Grrrrrr
Angry from Beaconsfield
Blimey. I bet you lot moan at having air in your tyres too. 
Mark,
It has to be Euro6 compliant air if you want to enter London or the big German cities. Gosh they will be banning smoking in Trafalgar Square next.
Blimey. I bet you lot moan at having air in your tyres too.
Air? so last century! the new way is nitrogen, makes the car lighter and therefore one uses less petrol!
Spider1V
Blimey. I bet you lot moan at having air in your tyres too.
Air? so last century! the new way is nitrogen, makes the car lighter and therefore one uses less petrol!
Spider1V
lol, I know it was last century when we went to school, but I'm fairly certain air is still roughly 78% Nitrogen :)
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It's going the same way with Defenders too... now down to a poxy 2.2 litre engine, sensors for everything, DPF (diesel particulant filter) which does a regurge cycle every so often, but not if you just bimble around... you need to give it the beans for 20 miles or so. great for a Welsh hillfarmer who trundles around.
And the new ones 2015MY have active suspension! more to go wrong... still, they're ending production next year, so at least they'll go out on a "low"