Hilbert's Car Museum, '05 Twongi 🌸 and some other bullshit

You know how older mercs only have one wiper?

Ultimate sign of luxury. Fortunately, my Mercedes decided to develop the monowiper feature as well!

The wiper linkage rod thing has… Undone itself. Will probably attach it back to the wiper motor once I feel like it.

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Do you really need that other wiper? Not like you are driving from the passenger seat

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Exactly my thoughts!

Now I have a great idea.

We all know that passenger side wiper blades lasts forever while drivers side wiper blades lasts for 5 minutes before they leave a striped pattern obscuring all your vision. So, now you can move the wiper blade from the passenger side over to the drivers side, hence you will have a drivers side wiper blade that lasts forever, probably the first one in the world!

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So the Mercedes is working wonderfully.

If we ignore the fact that it doesn’t start anymore. Also if, and heavy on the if, you do get it started, it will shut off when you turn the wheel. And also if you press the gas wrong.

The issues are the starter (probably) and the distributor (definitely). Will look into acquiring an used starter at some point. Right now I really don’t feel like it.

Obligatory daily driver photo.

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My Winter Car if it was good

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There’s like three people who speak this shitass language but eh, fuck it.

It is inspection time for the twinning and it passed without any faults whatsoever. The inspection man said I might have to get shock absorbers changed before the next inspection. Turns out not slowing down for speed bumps has its downsides.

Obligatory shitbox group pic

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Did the inspection guy have anything to say about the aesthetics of your car

No he’s the same guy who inspects all of my cars. He’s well aware.

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Mercedes update: it is dead

Turned it on after two weeks, oil light is on. I presume it has leaked everything so I add some oil. Still on. So there probably is no oil pressure at all.

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Could be just a faulty sensor too. Needs to be checked with a real pressure meter to be sure.

Spoke too soon. I added three liters of oil in the engine. That means there’s now whopping 7 liters of oil in the engine. The oil light disappeared. So now I need to take all that oil out and put the right amount in and then see if the oil light still comes on. However the engine definitely took some damage since I had to move the car while the oil light was on. You could hear the car crying.

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NEW STICKER YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY

So cool :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

On an unrelated note, I kinda wanna move to southern Finland. It’s cool since there’s the metro. It’s not cool since I’d also have to sell the Polo and the Merc.

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Good plan, the metro will allow all of your vehicles to be inoperable at once without ruining your life.

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Sooo, it turns out the twingo wasn’t slow because it has a 1.2L inline 4 producing 58hp.

It was slow because of this

I mean, look at the state of these plugs

These have to be older than the car!
However this was the easiest spark plugs change I’ve ever done, they were just chilling there.

Also I had this delicious egg prawn bread, that was 5,90€

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Now the Twingo will make blistering speed! :D

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Bye bye poler :smiling_face_with_three_hearts::smiling_face_with_three_hearts::smiling_face_with_three_hearts::smiling_face_with_three_hearts::smiling_face_with_three_hearts::smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

Welcome money :heart_eyes::heart_eyes::heart_eyes::heart_eyes::heart_eyes::heart_eyes::heart_eyes::heart_eyes:

And byebye money again ,:cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry::cry:
Because I buy:

heated and massaging seats :heart_eyes::smiling_face_with_three_hearts::heart_eyes::smiling_face_with_three_hearts::heart_eyes::smiling_face_with_three_hearts::heart_eyes::smiling_face_with_three_hearts::heart_eyes::smiling_face_with_three_hearts::heart_eyes::smiling_face_with_three_hearts::smiling_face_with_three_hearts::smiling_face_with_three_hearts::heart_eyes::heart_eyes::heart_eyes::smiling_face_with_three_hearts::smiling_face_with_three_hearts::partying_face::partying_face::partying_face::partying_face::partying_face:

Twinging

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So despite changing the spark plugs, the twonhje was still a bit jerky. I’m trying to accelerate and it’s stuttering. Not a lot, but it’s still annoying.

So without doing any research whatsoever, I just bought new spark plug wires.

Sunlight is merely a myth so here’s a shit dark photo.

Old ones were all rubber, these have plastic, they only had these shit ones. I wanted OEM ones but whatcha gonna do. It still runs better than previously so success I guess.

winter :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

it is -85 celsius

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I’m sorry, what? Did you say -85 Celsius!?

Yeah, I thought we were in winter RN. Why is it so warm?

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