I hear you with crawling under cars when up in the air. So many of the stands now say "Made In China" too, which does nothing to make me feel any better about crawling under there. lol
Ed 300E 2009/1/7 Steve MacSween <steve.macsw...@videotron.ca> > on 1/7/09 15:16, Kaleb C. Striplin at ka...@striplin.net wrote: > > > perhaps I should have said if you dont know how to replace a shift cable > > on a 126 and dont have alot of money to pay somebody to do it, then you > > probably should not own it. Nothing ridiculous about that. I have seen > > far too many of these cars run into the ground by people who dont know > > how to work on them and cant pay somebody to fix them right. > > Yeah, well in my case there is a slight problem in that I am phobic about > being under a car that is off the ground. If I can crawl underneath and > work > with the car sitting on its tires that is ok, but jackstands forget it. I > don't even like going underneath a car on the hoist in my buddy's shop. I > may try again this summer using Rhino-ramps, for some reason seeing > something solid looks ok to me (as opposed to the steel-frame ramps I have > lugged around for 20 years and used twice). > > The other thing you might want to bear in mind is that not all of us live > in > sunshine or temperate locales. I live in the snow belt and have no garage, > so to begin with I'm stuck using shops for at least five months a year, > best > case scenario, even for basic stuff. > > $440 for a shift cable replacement is not paying someone to do something > properly, it's flat out robbery. I almost fell on my butt when he handed me > the bill. This shop used to hire ex-dealer mechanics, which I understand > when it comes to justifying their hourly rate. Now it's just any punk they > train up. Nay nay guys. > > Oh and I liked it SO MUCH when they drained my 6-month-old M1 transmission > fluid (which I had instructed them to re-use) and dumped it because "we > detected particles". Never heard of straining fluid, eh, guys? > > Mac > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090107/e6dbbc0c/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
