I scoured hardware as well as produce providers, but it is not a time of canning, so the supply consisted of two 8oz small containers.
clay 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green 1986 SDL - Polei 1982 300 SD - Allen retired models- 2002 s430 - Victor, a Stately & well tailored crap 1976 300D - Blei Vanst - it looks silvery 1972 220D - Gump - She was green, simple and ran 1995 E300D - Gave her life to save me against a Dame in a SUV POS 1987 SDL - Beware Nigerian Scammers > On Jan 22, 2018, at 9:01 PM, Greg Fiorentino via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > I find citric acid in the bulk bins at the local produce store. It's pretty > cheap there too. > > Greg > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of clay > monroe via Mercedes > Sent: Monday, January 22, 2018 7:03 PM > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Cc: clay monroe > Subject: [MBZ] Hard to give advice > > I was playing with the coolant in Allen. Thermostat seems to have failed > open, so it is as good a time as any to try to degrease and get the scale out > of the engine. > > I could find only some tiny jars of citric acid, so am using some blue jug > descale thing that needs to live in the car for a few hours of road time. I > guess I can do that this week. I had flushed the old (which looked really > good) Orange antifreeze. Must have been Zerex, but I did not know just how > long it had been in, and the car has been mine for a year. > > So, I have emptied, flushed to clear water, and am getting ready to put in > the descaling goop, when a german sounding woman came over to tell me how she > liked seeing Polei, and that I must surely be german, if I have that car. I > am not, but we chatted on about things and she inquired as to my opinion > regarding replacing her 2002 C class with another benz. I was not really > supportive, based on just how much of a pig the W220 was. > > She purchased her car new, and it spent the first year racking up almost $8k > of service work, but has been fairly good over the past 15 years, with two > other expensive failures. I pointed her toward oriental cars. She asked > after BMW, which I could not fault, other than they are just as complex, > expensive, and maybe no better than the C class for initial quality. > > The best I could say was to avoid the local dealer, and try one about 20 > miles away, as the newer shop might not be run by scum, the way the SEA > dealer is. It could be that the new C is better than the millennial S. _______________________________________ 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
