Originally Posted by Plutoe

Benzworld is a good social networking site, great for reminiscing, guess work,but weak on the MB system knowledge. If you want to spend loads of time talking with folks about and around your problem that's a great place to converse. A great friendly social site.

If you like the party line approach you will do well however the moment you disagree or have an opposite opinion---you run into the bullies---then it gets nasty and if you continue with the truth----you will get banned!!

They have a system of counting posts and therefore you are left with the perception of depth of experience, but when you examine the posts most lack sound technical grounding, are short yes or no or no meat answers or long opuses and become very misleading to the novice who thinks he is getting sound technical advice.

A very strong point is that they have an excellent sticky section, with loads of references from many other forums on DIY work.

There is one exceptional member who has produced excellent DIY material from a clean garage that puts most commercial garages to shame.