I kind of like brown. It's a very period color! It's also very sedate which keeps the somewhat flashy car understated.
Sent from my iPhone On Apr 6, 2012, at 9:43 AM, andrew strasfogel <astrasfo...@gmail.com> wrote: Gael has his SL parked in the back. Too bad it's brown (no offense). Here's the diesel puurge procedue, although one can is more than enough: http://www.dieselgiant.com/injectorcleaning.htm On 4/6/12, andrew strasfogel <astrasfo...@gmail.com> wrote: Randy - How many miles can you document on your 76 300D? On 4/5/12, Dimitri Seretakis <dsereta...@yahoo.com> wrote: Yeah the Greek cabbies own their own cars and tend to baby them till death. To this day they still rave about the w123 diesels which have become a relative rarity now in the Greek taxi fleet although you still see them in the more rural parts. Cars there don't rust but they get banged up a lot due to narrow roads and idiot drivers. As a result body panels are loaded with bondo and so it's difficult to find a straight car. The Greeks don't know a damned thing about doing quality body work. They are good mechanics though. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 5, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Rich Thomas <richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote: I saw a diesel Benz in Greece that had 1.5million miles on it, a taxi, thing looked almost new. Owner was on his 3rd engine. It was a 78 or 80 or somewhere along in there. I think it started as a 220D and he had a 300 engine in it at the time ("don't tell the tax man!" he said). The roads there are pretty good, but I am sure it had its share of hard knocks in its many years. I'd be more worried about rust and such than metal fatigue -- wear parts need to be replaced as a matter of course. If potholes are causing enough hurt on the bits, then the suspension must not be doing its job too well, and if it bottoms out or gets pounded hard then something is gonna get broken or bent and will need to be replaced. --R On 4/5/12 10:33 AM, Randy Bennell wrote: I think my point has been lost. I was commenting on the suggestion that cars can become more valuable as they accumulate really high mileage. I said I did not really want one of those. My suggestion was that at some point one must begin to wonder about metal fatigue in important parts between one's you know what and the road. I have no real concern with 300K miles but at a million, I start to wonder how many potholes have been pounded through. Randy On 04/04/2012 7:29 PM, Curt Raymond wrote: Hairline cracks which cause what exactly? Besides if there are cracks they will rust and show themselves. -Curt Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:10:55 -0500 From: Randy Bennell<rbenn...@bennell.ca> To: Mercedes Discussion List<mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] Who wanted a TD? Message-ID:<4f7cb8df.5050...@bennell.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed I don't think age is as likely to cause metal fatigue as one million miles of use on the road hitting potholes etc. Rubber bits may give up if it sits long enough and if it is not in a dry storage place it may rust but that is more visible than hair line cracks in the metal of important bits between you and the road. 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 _______________________________________ 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 _______________________________________ 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 _______________________________________ 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 _______________________________________ 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
