I believe the idea was to call out Trent here and perhaps spur on action.
I also am waiting on a part, the 90 degree heater hose that lives under the AC
compressor on my '78 240D. Fred had suggested it was in bad shape and I should
replace it. Then the little hose from the water pump to the thermostat failed
so I ordered that, along with the heater hose, thermostat, housing gasket and
some other gubbins. Everything arrived except the heater hose. The thing is the
heater hose is almost impossible to replace without dismounting the AC
compressor (which I already have to do for the little hose) so I hate do get in
there only to have to get in there again. So project stalled waiting for a
hose. I emailed Trent Thursday last and he replied "I find out" which is the
last I've heard of the matter. I plan to call tomorrow.
I plan also to check at my local CarQuest who can quite likely have it to me
Tuesday...
-Curt
Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 17:53:35 +0930
From: Hendrik and Fay <heni...@gmail.com>
To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] My experiences -- a datum point in world wide
slackness
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And you have made enquiries as to the status of your order?
To be honest there is not a lot we can do to help, except share your
pain, I wanted to get a M103 (that is a gas burning six cylinder engine
made in the 80's) head gasket set for my car and there where none to be
had in Adelaide, had to be shipped from Melbourne, well I just hit the
roof and said to those useless so and so's, "why don't you have every
part for every car right here and right now?"
Of course the manger immediately performed ceremonial suicide to
apologize for his companies poor performance, I thought about getting a
couple of the hired hands to do same but I let it slide because I am
such a nice natured person. However if the next time I am in there and
they don't have a particular do higgy for my jalopy, there will be more
blood spilt.
On second thoughts, now that you have indicated this slackness is
spreading across the globe, I will go back there and fire bomb the
place, that should get them back up to speed.
But then again when I do finally get my hands on shiny new parts , they
generally slug me trade price only, which is still more expensive than
US retail prices.
Hendrik
who even put a shiny new timing chain in the gasser but just about had a
nervous breakdown trying to put the TC cover back on
On 08/06/13 13:29, Rich Thomas wrote:
> I did not buy stuff from Worldparts, I bought stuff from buymbparts.
>
> I don't want to hear excuses about some 3rd party, I want the stuff I
> paid for.
>
> --R
>
>
> On 6/7/13 8:16 PM, MG wrote:
>> Yeah I understand that Trent has been having a lot of problems with
>> Worldparts in regards to shipping and pricing. Hopefully this will
>> get fixed sooner rather than later. Not much fun on either side of an
>> order.
>>
>> Manfred
>
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