For me, the time to abandon a car is when I don't want to fix it anymore. It's just that simple. The old cars area as much a hobby as they are transportation. We've owned two new cars over the years - a '74 Opel that my wife purchased a few months before we met, and the '97 van that we bought for her after many cold winters in a '78 VW bus. As I look back on all the cars, the two that we bought new have been the most reliable and have needed the least maintenance. Perhaps that's luck, perhaps it's that I do all the maintenance on them. I'm about to enter a new hobby, and am re-thinking my older MBs -- and wondering if the advice an old indie used to give his customers when they asked "what car should I buy?" - he told them to buy a new MB and drive it the rest of their life (I don't know if that's the car's or the owner's life). I don't want to have to work on a car when I could be working on the Tailwind. A new TDI is under consideration, but I hate to not have an MB - so the cheapest C class is also in consideration. I do wish they sold the C class in the US with a CDI engine ---
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I have no problem with conserving a nice car but don't tell me you "can't" > drive it in the winter, thats lame. > > I've been driving diesels for the last 8 years, the newest was an '85, > also an '84 and '83 and now a '78 which I'm daily driving right now because > my '84 needs a carrier bearing. > > You COULD drive your car, plug in the block heater and it'll be warm > enough to start in an hour or two, synthetic oil would help but is not > required, the last winter I drove my '83 I used conventional oil. > > -Curt > > Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:59:28 -0600 > From: Randy Bennell <rbenn...@bennell.ca> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] A lost cause? > Message-ID: <4ec18f40.3050...@bennell.ca> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > On 14/11/2011 3:37 PM, Curt Raymond wrote: > > Harumph, this is what block heaters are for... > > > > -Curt > > > > > My car is too old and too nice to subject it to our winters. > And, the old diesels do not start like the newer ones when it gets > really cold. Double batteries might help but even then, I believe I > might have issues that are best avoided. > > Randy > > _______________________________________ > 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://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > -- OK Don 2001 ML320 1992 300D 2.5T 1990 300D 2.5T 1997 Plymouth Grand Voyager _______________________________________ 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://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
