Emily and myself took it upon ourselves to get the Mercedes S-Class started today. Armed with 3 batteries, a jerry can of petrol and 2 lovely young ladies to get stuck in, what could go wrong?
Well this clip includes cranking, flat batteries, pedal pumping, manual gear driving, pushing.. so it wasnt as straight forward as we thought!
The mercedes quickly tears through the batteries turning over, after topping it up with petrol I instruct emily to try pumping harder when she turns the engine over.
We are begining to run short on time so we give the car a little break...

Emily and myself took it upon ourselves to get the Mercedes S-Class started today. Armed with 3 batteries, a jerry can of petrol and 2 lovely young ladies to get stuck in, what could go wrong?
Well this clip includes cranking, flat batteries, pedal pumping, manual gear driving, pushing.. so it wasnt as straight forward as we thought!
The mercedes quickly tears through the batteries turning over, after topping it up with petrol I instruct emily to try pumping harder when she turns the engine over.
We are begining to run short on time so we give the car a little break and come back to it five minutes later but the issue still remains. Its not the fuel, its not the battery... it must be something electrical.
We face up that its not going to start today and head home in the Peugeot 307. As we go to pull out of the parking space, the gar just won't go into reverse gear! I try many many times, swapping my feet from gas to brake to stop us going forward when we want to go back! Even pumping the clutch between gear changes doesnt help. (some great pedal shots here!)
In the end we are right across the road with no reverse so Emily has to get out and push the car back so we can turn around without hitting anything. What a day..! Two cars and two women in trouble!