I would add that I turned on the AC this morning, and while it was still relatively cool outside (72F?) it made ice cues like ASAP. I suspect that cleaning all the crap out of the condenser helped a great deal…
-D > On May 14, 2017, at 7:36 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > Did my early morning grocery run in the E300D. > > No joy on the hard shifts. I’ll get under the car today and check the vacuum > modulator - hopefully that’s the issue. I’m going to check the line routing > if I can as well. The connections from the flying saucer to the modulator > are pretty straightforward, the only difficult part being the stuff under the > manifold that you can’t see or get to easily. > > Headlights were all whack-a-doo, that is, pointed in all different > directions. Did a quick garage door aiming and found that the driver’s side > headlight was all messed up inside. Linkages broken, stuff not anchored to > anything, etc. More confirmation that the car took a hit in the front, now > narrowed down to the left front. > > Gonna do a Curley and hit Car-Part.com and find a headlight assembly unless > someone here has one they want to part with. I’ll pull this one off today > and have a look inside, but on a cursory inspection from the access panel > there’s some serious stuff going on internally I probably can’t fix. Looks > like someone just put a new lens on and nothing more. So at least I have a > new lens… > > Car ran great other than the neck-snapping shifts. Speaking of which, looks > like the driver’s headrest doesn’t work or the switch is gunked up. > Something else to check today. > > Rear defogger did its job well and the cruise is now working, maybe from my > fuse replacement yesterday, so we’ve got some positive stuff for the day > already. > > I will say that this is a fun car to drive after putting around in a W126. > _______________________________________ > http://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 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