Re: [MBZ] help the daughter unit
> > Any liquid solvent will due, but think about disposal once done. Gasoline burns nicely, in a bucket. -- Jim ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] help the daughter unit
I've used the flush that FLAPS sells, and alcohol. Any liquid solvent will due, but think about disposal once done. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300 On May 17, 2017 12:42:10 PM EDT, Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote: >I poured some in, and blew it through with compressed air. I figured >any >residue would be very HC-refrigerant compatible, and also happy with >the >R12 mineral oil I was using. The suck filter on the compressor is the >most >important thing. > >-- Jim >___ >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
Re: [MBZ] help the daughter unit
I poured some in, and blew it through with compressed air. I figured any residue would be very HC-refrigerant compatible, and also happy with the R12 mineral oil I was using. The suck filter on the compressor is the most important thing. -- Jim ___ 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
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On 16/05/2017 11:53 PM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote: What do use to flush? Last time I used gasoline! -- Jim ___ Next question is how? RB ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] help the daughter unit
> > What do use to flush? Last time I used gasoline! -- Jim ___ 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
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What do use to flush? Sent from my Galaxy Tab® A Original message From: Jim Cathey via Mercedes Date: 2017-05-16 8:31 PM (GMT-06:00) To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: Jim Cathey , Max Dillon Subject: Re: [MBZ] help the daughter unit Professional AC repair is a racket. Quickie flush, replacement compressor, test refrigerant, and an inline filter on the suction side and it should be good to go. What, $200 DIY? Windows are usually not horribly expensive to fix. Either a used regulator, or a new sliding jaw. Unless it's electrical, in which case a can of DeOxIt and a new fuse or two isn't that expensive. -- Jim ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] help the daughter unit
Professional AC repair is a racket. Quickie flush, replacement compressor, test refrigerant, and an inline filter on the suction side and it should be good to go. What, $200 DIY? Windows are usually not horribly expensive to fix. Either a used regulator, or a new sliding jaw. Unless it's electrical, in which case a can of DeOxIt and a new fuse or two isn't that expensive. -- Jim ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] help the daughter unit
That ML will drink a lot of premium gasoline... Get the 99 E300 turbo diesel. -- Max Dillon Charleston SC '87 300TD '95 E300 ___ 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
Re: [MBZ] help the daughter unit
The engine on her SD is blowing oil too, it's probably the seals which I am not inclined to deal with as the car is not here. Needs (probably) 3 window motors. The AC was quoted at $900 up depending on if the compressor sent crap everywhere when it munched. The car is probably worth $1500 at best, maybe $2k. The other one here has an R12 AC that was working originally but leaked down, I could probably get it running, but she wants something newer, which could have its own set of issues, but whatever... She talked to the E55 guy, he was kinda evasive, she ran the VIN and it turned out the car was bought from a salvage yard in 2016 with front=end damage, I guess someone bought it and fixed it and is now flipping it. No telling what the damage was, she is running away from that. Talked to this guy, https://greenville.craigslist.org/cto/6132810319.html who she said was nice, they are selling the car to get a newer one, no problems with it (yeah, I know...) so she is going to try to go take a look at it, I might drive up sometime too to look at it with her. ==FT On 5/16/17 6:12 PM, OK Don via Mercedes wrote: Spend half or less of her budget fixing the SD - then she has a known good car. Those same things will break soon on a $4,000 MB. Better the devil you know . . . On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: So the daughter unit has gotten tired of no AC in the SD and windows that don't work so she thinks she wants to spend up to $4k on another car. She of course has been spoiled by her and her mom's Benzes so I found some in her range. Recognizing cheap mercedes etc I told her she will have to maintain it, likely to be more expensive than the old SD but that is spendy too for a new AC compressor, etc. ($900+ at the shop which seems very high but what do I know) What might y'all think of these rides? I also suggested a cheap hondoyota etc. which she sneered at. Salvage hail damage but looks nice https://charleston.craigslist. org/cto/6132552457.html ML https://greenville.craigslist.org/cto/6132810319.html E320 https://greenville.craigslist.org/cto/6091846552.html A rocket https://greenville.craigslist.org/cto/6119257403.html This might be a good deal https://greenville.craigslist. org/cto/6075911456.html Cheap ML https://greenville.craigslist.org/cto/6120034674.html She sent this guy an email https://greenville.craigslist. org/cto/6118679142.html -- --FT Winston Churchill: “Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” ___ 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 -- --FT Winston Churchill: “Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” ___ 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
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Spend half or less of her budget fixing the SD - then she has a known good car. Those same things will break soon on a $4,000 MB. Better the devil you know . . . On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > So the daughter unit has gotten tired of no AC in the SD and windows that > don't work so she thinks she wants to spend up to $4k on another car. She > of course has been spoiled by her and her mom's Benzes so I found some in > her range. Recognizing cheap mercedes etc I told her she will have to > maintain it, likely to be more expensive than the old SD but that is spendy > too for a new AC compressor, etc. ($900+ at the shop which seems very high > but what do I know) > > What might y'all think of these rides? I also suggested a cheap hondoyota > etc. which she sneered at. > > > Salvage hail damage but looks nice https://charleston.craigslist. > org/cto/6132552457.html > > ML https://greenville.craigslist.org/cto/6132810319.html > > E320 https://greenville.craigslist.org/cto/6091846552.html > > A rocket https://greenville.craigslist.org/cto/6119257403.html > > This might be a good deal https://greenville.craigslist. > org/cto/6075911456.html > > Cheap ML https://greenville.craigslist.org/cto/6120034674.html > > She sent this guy an email https://greenville.craigslist. > org/cto/6118679142.html > > -- > --FT > Winston Churchill: > “Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, > large or petty, > never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. > Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of > the enemy.” > > > ___ > 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 > > -- OK Don *“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves." WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* 2013 F150, 18 mpg 2012 Passat TDI DSG, 44 mpg 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! ___ 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
[MBZ] help the daughter unit
So the daughter unit has gotten tired of no AC in the SD and windows that don't work so she thinks she wants to spend up to $4k on another car. She of course has been spoiled by her and her mom's Benzes so I found some in her range. Recognizing cheap mercedes etc I told her she will have to maintain it, likely to be more expensive than the old SD but that is spendy too for a new AC compressor, etc. ($900+ at the shop which seems very high but what do I know) What might y'all think of these rides? I also suggested a cheap hondoyota etc. which she sneered at. Salvage hail damage but looks nice https://charleston.craigslist.org/cto/6132552457.html ML https://greenville.craigslist.org/cto/6132810319.html E320 https://greenville.craigslist.org/cto/6091846552.html A rocket https://greenville.craigslist.org/cto/6119257403.html This might be a good deal https://greenville.craigslist.org/cto/6075911456.html Cheap ML https://greenville.craigslist.org/cto/6120034674.html She sent this guy an email https://greenville.craigslist.org/cto/6118679142.html -- --FT Winston Churchill: “Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” ___ 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
