Auction ended yesterday with me on top at $675. I then received a counter offer for $1025 or whatever it was. I simply clicked stay at my bid. Fast forward to today. I drove to Little Rock for my work trip and stopped along the way to look at the car. It was cold and sprinkling and I found the car. It was basically parked with a huge mud hole around it but I was able to get in and look interior is very clean except the drivers seat has a couple of tears in the leather. This is the first time I have seen these sort of seats in person. Evidentially this style has Tex on the sides with leather in the middle. Data card calls it Tex leather. All of the parts including head, turbo etc are in the trunk. All of the bolts and screws are in ziplock bags and labeled. Head looks good and crack free. Has all new glows plugs in all but #1 which has an easy out sticking out of it. So we figured out the problem. I don’t know if the easy out is stuck or not. I thought with the head off a broke off plug is easy to remove. Maybe not. I could not get the hood open. It felt like it was popped but would not release. Since the photos show the under hood it has to open somehow. I wanted to see what the cylinders looked like.
About an hour ago I checked into the Embassy Suites here in Little Rock. A few minutes later I get an alert that I won the auction. CRAP. Why could that have not happened yesterday so I could have brought the trailer. I guess now this broke glow plug is my problem. The car does appear to be nice though. I guess I’m going to have to make another trip. Very inconvenient Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 17, 2020, at 1:59 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > I got this fairly decent 184kmi E300 I picked up for $500, cranks but won’t > start, I think it’s that relay which I can pull off the one I smashed. > Haven’t been to the smashed car yet to get it. I hate the color and this E320 > is running pretty well so I might flip it fast, maybe sell the E320 too and > get something newer like a 211 wagon although they are probably more of a > PITA to deal with. Or get this ML500 sorted and just drive that. > > --FT > Sent from iPhone > >> On Feb 17, 2020, at 1:37 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> Well auction just ended. I got caught up in bidding and went WAY too high. >> Ended at $675 with me on top. After fees will be $9xx. It’s pending seller >> approval. Only reason I bid was I’m going to Little Rock tomorrow for work >> so can pick it up and haul it back while there. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>>> On Feb 15, 2020, at 9:57 PM, Kaleb Striplin <ka...@striplin.net> wrote: >>> >>> 80k miles and the head is off? >>> >>> https://www.copart.com/lot/29462430 >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> 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 > _______________________________________ 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
