Yeah some altitude adds a bit more excitement!
--FT
On 2/9/19 7:43 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:
Yeah, that’s the worst. You have a car puke on you and now you’re sensitized to
it. Everywhere you go in it you’re just waiting for the other shoe to drop. I
hate that.
And Don, you have far larger cohones than I ever will. I can’t imagine doing it in
an airplane, although a former coworker was an A&P DIY’er. To the best of my
knowledge he’s still alive and flying.
-D
On Feb 8, 2019, at 9:46 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
Great story. That’s totally me in the SL600. Completely paranoid. Especially
after the thermostat sticking and the car getting hot. And the$500E300 too.
Every old car!
--R
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On Feb 8, 2019, at 9:14 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
wrote:
A funny story:
Today I drove the 220SEb to work and then on to my headliner guy's shop so he
could survey it in anticipation of doing the headliner and related items early
next month. It's a roughly 20 mile drive one way to work, half on surface
streets and the other half on a reversible toll road with limited
access/highway speeds (65 mph.) It's a combination of the two over to the
headliner shop of about 10 miles, making the return back to the house much the
same of about 30 miles for a total of about 60 miles round trip.
We've all been in my shoes - a relatively new (to you) unproven car, taking it
out on the road, listening to every noise, vibration, hum, whatever, riding on
the edge just waiting for something (bad) to happen. You hear something and
start to freak out....
Drive to work - uneventful, maybe even fun. The toll road is a reversible with
three lanes, no access for roughly 11 miles. Very nice road surface, new and
smooth as glass. The car ran flawlessly, in fact, it found a sweet spot in the
upper 60s that made it sound great and was really tracking and handling quite
nicely, considering that I am in serious need of new front springs. Cool. Got
to work without an issue. Whew!
Drive to headliner shop - interstate and city streets, busy but the car did
well again. Not a problem.
Drive home, mostly interstate except for the last 10 miles or so, which is
surface streets. Again, ran well, no problems. Even fired up the FrigiKing
since it was nearly 80 and got some ice cubes running - well, plenty of cold
air. About a mile from home I was turning through an intersection and it
sounded like I ran over something small in the road. Hmm. No problem, car was
running fine. Probably a big rock or some piece of junk I didn't see.
Pull into the garage. Need to straighten out the car a bit, so I put it in
reverse. It continues to creep forward. Hmm. Put it in neutral. Creeps forward.
OK, I'll just leave it here and I'll park the wife's SL500 so she doesn't bang
the door into my car, since it was encroaching into her space a little.
Get down on my hands and knees and take a look under the car. Yup. Transmission
linkage bushing failed. Got a couple on their way from the MB warehouse in
Jacksonville. I totally trust this car now.
Dan
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