Hi Onconnom,
Hope you enjoy your new car !!
Like you, we looked at several 'immaculate / fsh' cars, all at dealers i should add and all of them were far from immaculate in my view and not with what i would call a fsh. That was why i jumped on the 12,000 miler that Stuart was selling. Yes, probably paid a premium for it, but who cares, sooner that than some of the other cars we looked at for not much less than we paid for ours.
Just to give myself a warm feeling with the car, i booked it in with the local Merc Dealer to change oil / filter / coolant and air cleaners which they did with no issues. They also did a 30 odd point check over of the car and could not fault it - so i got my warm feeling !! Next job will be auto trans oil change. I am also going to get it rust proofed because i do not think it was too well done from new - anybody got any views on this ???

The radio issue, well is just one of those things. Yes, did speak to Stuart about it and he did suggest a couple of things to try. I did'nt expect Stuart to be able to fix it, i am in Worcestershire so not that easy to ask him to look at it or sort it for me. Like a lot of owners seem to have done, i'm going to get a quality head unit fitted, so that should sort it !!

That's it for now, keep us all informed how you get on with yours,
John.