On Feb 17, 2016, at 7:53 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes wrote: > > The worst cars today: 1. A pottyak rollerskate of some form. the front of > the seat is just a few inches behind the front edge of the door opening. > Hard to get into, and extremely difficult to get out of. Being a ragtop, I > could not grab the roof to extract myself. It basically involved rolling > overand crawling backwards to get out of the heap. > 2. Some saturn something or other. Missing, every warning light on, and door > handles broken. > > On the MB Front: Got to drive a couple of newer MBs today. a 2003 S500. > Rolling on rubber bands, with deflated (airmatic) and missing. It would > probably have 20 problems on the stealer computer. Lessee: We used air > sispension on the old 300SEs, and they got a reputation of being expensive to > repair. Many nice 300SEs went to the knacker because the owner thought the > cost of fixing the air suspension was too much. > > So, Lets put the problem on steroids! Lets add a while bunch of sensors and > a computer (all of which break) to this system. And where the 300SE came > with block that could be used to keep a car driveable, lets make the thing > rolloff bait when the airmatic craps out. On the positive side, the other > stuff inside the car seemed to work. > > Also drove a 2004 E55 AMG. No Missing, still rubber band tires, and deflated > airmatic. > > both cars had trouble getting bids. The S was in the $2000 range, the AMG > was around $1500. > > Remember a couple weeks ago there was a S55 AMG with deflated airmatic, > Clay's stealer who could screw up, but could not fix the airmatic. > > I sure do like my 123s, 124s and 126's! > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com
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