Yes I saw you where back and it seems back to your usual way of
expressing yourself.
I reckon I still have the right to express thoughts on this list or
perhaps you are now in charge and only mad rants, directed at whole
sections of list members, are allowed (ie. the haters and ignorant ones)
and the hating ignorant ones are especially going to feel the wrath of
Jabba the hutt and the ueber master of automotive knowledge, or has he
had his dummy spit, grabbed his bat and joined a more intelligent MB
forum, where they appreciate the 140 and it's gadgets and deride any MB
that cost less than 20K to buy.
Now perhaps you would be good enough to point out the rule that posts,
of a certain age, cannot be commented upon. The original post from the
master was on the 13th of December and unfortunately I have been busy,
thus unable to catch up on all the posts sent by the members.
There are lots of things wrong with me but I think the one you are
referring to is the one where I am not happy for a list member to call
the list (or some members thereof) ignorant because they declared the
140 to be a step back for Mercedes, or at the very least contain some
very expensive components that fail in a time frame not usual for a Benz
product.
Perhaps Jaime could get a job at Daimler as a customer liaison
executive, in charge of telling them that they are ignorant to be
unhappy that their MB is spending a lot of time in the workshop and the
reason the MB's of the mid 90's to late 00's are less reliable than the
cars they replaced is that this is how automotive development works. "We
tried to build a more sophisticated machine on a smaller budget and it
just didn't work out quite the way it was supposed to but that's OK with
us, we get to sell some very expensive bits to you ignorant fools."
Hendrik
who is ignorant and hates some things, like machines that I can't repair
Gary Hurst wrote:
can't you guys leave anything alone? he's unsubscribed already and it's
been a while. wtf is wrong with you?
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Hendrik & Fay <heni...@ozemail.com.au>wrote:
Not sure if I should say anything, I may be accused of being ignorant by
the new high master of knowledge.
However being a daredevil I shall try and sneak some stupidity past the
overlord of automotive development information, guess if he catches me I'll
cop a beating with the workshop manual of the W140 (and that's gotta hurt,
especially if it includes the electronic section).
Anyway I think the gripe the ignorant so and so's have is fair enough. The
issue being that there are a lot of MB only parts on that car that fail
eventually and trying to find a part out of a wreck is a lottery,
considering that the part may fail again.
Automotive development is good when it is taken one step after another but
the leap between the 126 and 140 was mighty and a bit too far. As a side
note the W220 also suffered from reliability problems due to more leaping.
Technology is great when it works but when it doesn't and costs a fortune
to fix it is a pain.
I have heard stories of cars being wrecked because the accident damaged
electrical equipment that is too expensive too replace, or damaged
electrical lines which in turn damaged the various computers that are in a
car.
Hendrik
who is hiding from the grand high overlord master of all things Mercedes
Jaime Kopchinski wrote:
Wow, the ignorance on this list has reached an all time high.
You folks really haven't a clue about how automotive development
works, and why an S class is designed the way they are. Not a clue.
Jaime
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