Most likely is what @SimonBrown says in above post. Hot spot due to poor injector spray pattern.
Black puff is the 200's excess fuel start system working, good for getting dirty looks at the supermarket car park. :D
New head gasket, get injectors checked/reconned and crack on, no pun intended!
Cracks in the head between valves are not unusual on 200 engines, mine has had a cracked head for years, no leaks no coolant loss, keep on trucking.
I think even my...
I have had that before. That is the only other clutch failure I have had in the 330k miles I have done in the 110. I guess modern clutches are “better” (I use the work loosely given current circumstances) similar to modern brakes and do not wear...
The label has HAL printed on it, so it left the factory with halogen H9 bulbs. The label for xenon headlamps have XEN on the labke.
It's pretty common for aftermarket HIDs to be fitted in place of the standard H9s, as the halogen bulbs are...
Park up to a wall, then switch lights on, if they are full brightness instantly they are halogens, if they take a second to get to full brightness then they are Hid/Xenon.
But if it’s not there they can’t fail it. They can only comment it’s now missing
And putting ARB onto a lifted motor won’t help if you off road as it restricts axle movements
Does it lower overnight?
Compressor should be pretty quiet and certainly not audible from the drivers seat.
@gstuart will offer much more advice than me.
Ah well in that case it is angle grinder and flap disc to remove the last of the evidence, some black chassis wax and present for mot at another place.