ATTABOY!
Wilton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Penoff via Mercedes" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 6:06 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] 190D wonderment
That's almost like the experience I had with the S500 coupe last weekend.
Youngest boy, who is the primary driver of the car, complained about a
shimmy or vibration in the steering wheel at nearly all speeds. He also
remarked about the car "waddling" when coming to a stop at low speeds.
That is, the rear of the car seemed to move side to side as it slowed.
I recalled experiencing both of these issues to some extent when I drove
the car, but attributed it to the rear suspension possibly needing a
rebuild. Interestingly, tire wear was perfect, with no indication that
there was anything amiss in the suspension or steering.
I took the car to get it aligned two weekends ago, but the shop couldn't
break the right side tie rod adjuster loose. I got a couple of tie rod
assemblies from our sexy parts supplier and installed them on Saturday.
Took the car in for another go at an alignment on Sunday, with no
problems.
I spoke with the tech who did the alignment, who told me the rear was
really out of whack. The printout showed this as well.
Drove the car home and found no shimmy, shake or waddle.
I texted my son after he drove the car back to school on Sunday night.
"It's like floating on a cloud!"
Dan
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On Oct 9, 2014, at 2:26 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
I'll take this quiet moment between off topic posts to mention that with
new rear lower control arm bushings my '84 190D has become an absolute
delight to drive. I took it on the 59 mile run to work today and it is
again the wonderful european motor it should have been but never was when
I got it.
Unfortunately I'd been kind of ignoring it since it wasn't any real fun
to drive and now has a bunch of issues including bad tinworm. I need to
order some new injector nozzles from our ever-so-sexy parts supplier.
The listing for nozzles has a cutoff for engine number but the part
number appears to be the same. How do I get my engine number? This is
something I've been vaguely interested in but never gotten around to
checking...
-Curt
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