Re: [MBZ] 124/201 ball joint tool

On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 22:04:22 -0800 Jim Cathey via Mercedes wrote: > Truck frames are now tempered. They were not, in the past. > This is so that they can be made lighter, but still as strong. The frame of our 2000 Kenworth W900 is tempered. Craig ___ http:/

Re: [MBZ] 124/201 ball joint tool

Just file the complaint with fleabay.   Then wait for their pronouncement.   IF that fails, complain to paypal.   THey'll give back your money Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes wrote on 11/5/19 8:02 PM: I am tempted to tell them to pound sand.  Not only that, they have several other listings for

Re: [MBZ] 124/201 ball joint tool

 file a complaint with fleabay.   You'll either get your money, or the compressor at the price they agreed to.   Remember... fleaby always sides with the buyer, right?. Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes wrote on 11/5/19 7:53 PM: So after I paid seller messages me saying they messed on up shipping

Re: [MBZ] Bosch Group 49R Batteries

> On November 5, 2019 at 9:09 PM ROGER HALE via Mercedes > wrote: > It is a group 49 with the POS on the right. Thanks. Good to know it's a regular 49. That was the only one I could find at Pepboys. I've used 26R and 24R, but never heard of 49R before. One of my Tauri, I think the 1995, too

Re: [MBZ] Bosch Group 49R Batteries

Yea the group 49/H8 is what is used in must about all the cars. BTW it is also $119 at Walmart.  WM also has the AGM version for $149 in case anybody is interested. On 11/5/2019 8:09 PM, ROGER HALE via Mercedes wrote: Yes, they have a terrible website. It said my local store didn't have this

Re: [MBZ] Bosch Group 49R Batteries

Yes, they have a terrible website. It said my local store didn't have this battery, but it did. I just went to the search line on my browser in put in the line above. One of the "deals" was for Pepboys. I clicked the link and got the online special. It is a group 49 with the POS on the righ

Re: [MBZ] 124/201 ball joint tool

I am tempted to tell them to pound sand.  Not only that, they have several other listings for the same item with the same shipping amount other than this listing that says 7 sold. On 11/5/2019 8:00 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote: The auction says they’ve sold seven of them. How many of thos

Re: [MBZ] 124/201 ball joint tool

The auction says they’ve sold seven of them. How many of those do you think they screwed up the shipping costs on? They’re screwing you, buddy. -D > On Nov 5, 2019, at 8:53 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes > wrote: > > So after I paid seller messages me saying they messed on up shipping a

Re: [MBZ] 124/201 ball joint tool

So after I paid seller messages me saying they messed on up shipping and want an additional $33 so that puts it about $108.  I guess that is still a decent deal?  Maybe? On 11/2/2019 9:00 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes wrote: I ended up buying this just now: https://www.ebay.com/itm/23206

Re: [MBZ] Bosch Group 49R Batteries

> On November 5, 2019 at 7:51 PM "Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes" > wrote: > > > Their website really seems to suck.  I can't seem to find a battery by > searching for it or by entering car information. DuckDuckGo is your friend when store search engines are useless. https://www.pepboys.com

Re: [MBZ] Bosch Group 49R Batteries

Hold it, 49R??? Most of my MBs have exactly enough cable to reach the terminals on a 49. Move the terminals 3" and I don't think it would work in anything I own, except maybe the W116 or S210. Is that really a 49Reversed, and if the terminals are facing you the POS is on your left? Mitch.

Re: [MBZ] Bosch Group 49R Batteries

Their website really seems to suck.  I can't seem to find a battery by searching for it or by entering car information. On 11/5/2019 6:06 PM, ROGER HALE via Mercedes wrote: In case anyone needs this battery for an older diesel, Pepboys has a really good deal right now. If you do a web search

[MBZ] Bosch Group 49R Batteries

In case anyone needs this battery for an older diesel, Pepboys has a really good deal right now. If you do a web search for this battery and select the Pepboys deal, you get the following: Battery is $179 in store, but $159 on the web only. Then you get a $40.00 instant discount, so it's only

Re: [MBZ] FB123 Pierre Responds

Wow Pierre is the man! Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 5, 2019, at 4:11 PM, Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes > wrote: > > Gosh. It is so refreshing to see someone call a spade a spade. > > On Tue, Nov 5, 2019, 12:11 PM Rick Knoble via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> >> Not for the f

Re: [MBZ] FB123 Pierre Responds

On 05/11/2019 2:32 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes wrote: I love it I don't. Pierre should not waste his time with that bunch. You cannot fix stupid and there really is no point in trying. Randy ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http:/

Re: [MBZ] Repainted China Blue 300TD with parchment interior

It is clear Plexiglas and comes up out of the trunk-not shown in photo. Dwight E. Giles Jr. Wickford RI On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 5:36 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Where’s the exhaust stack? > > -D > > > > On Nov 5, 2019, at 10:13 AM, Dwight Giles via Mercedes < > me

Re: [MBZ] Repainted China Blue 300TD with parchment interior

Where’s the exhaust stack? -D > On Nov 5, 2019, at 10:13 AM, Dwight Giles via Mercedes > wrote: > > Here is real China Blue. #934 > > Dwight Giles Jr. > Wickford RI > > On Mon, Nov 4, 2019, 11:26 PM Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> They can call it Chin

Re: [MBZ] For when Poos moves into his new house

We have 2, one is for my TI99/4A, Atari 130XE and Commodore 64. The other Angie uses for DVDs and has an Atari Flashback... -Curt On Tuesday, November 5, 2019, 1:59:44 PM EST, Craig via Mercedes wrote: On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 18:53:10 + (UTC) Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote: > Unless

Re: [MBZ] FB123 Pierre Responds

Let's start our own FBG. We can call it "Banned from w123 North America" with the following motto: "The ethical place for a just person in an unjust FB Group is in FayBee Jail" On Tue, Nov 5, 2019, 12:46 PM Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Lord don’t use the term rice

Re: [MBZ] FB123 Pierre Responds

Gosh. It is so refreshing to see someone call a spade a spade. On Tue, Nov 5, 2019, 12:11 PM Rick Knoble via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Not for the faint of heart or easily offended. Some vulgarity and > exceedingly passionate language. > > Note to Kaleb. > Don't ever let Pierre

Re: [MBZ] FB123 Pierre Responds

Lord don’t use the term rice burner or you will really offend that Ian moron and he will ban you. I am really surprised they have not gotten rid of Pierre yet. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 5, 2019, at 2:11 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes > wrote: > >  > Not for the faint of heart or easily of

Re: [MBZ] FB123 Pierre Responds

I love it --FT On 11/5/19 2:49 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes wrote: Not for the faint of heart or easily offended. Some vulgarity and exceedingly passionate language. Note to Kaleb. Don't ever let Pierre near Okie acres. He won't like to see dozens of restorable Benz rusting in pieces. These

Re: [MBZ] Repainted China Blue 300TD with parchment interior

Yes. Dimitri has china,blue 240D. That is my CD. Dwight Giles Jr. Wickford RI On Tue, Nov 5, 2019, 3:12 PM Andrew Strasfogel wrote: > Now THAT I like! Amazing how easy it is to tell a fake vs. genuine > Mercedes color... > > On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 3:11 PM Dwight Giles via Mercedes < > mercedes

Re: [MBZ] Repainted China Blue 300TD with parchment interior

Now THAT I like! Amazing how easy it is to tell a fake vs. genuine Mercedes color... On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 3:11 PM Dwight Giles via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Here is real China Blue. #934 > > Dwight Giles Jr. > Wickford RI > > On Mon, Nov 4, 2019, 11:26 PM Dimitri Seretakis via

Re: [MBZ] For when Poos moves into his new house

The firewall on my router won’t let it send anything out without my approval. I check the manufacturer’s web site to see if there are firmware updates, and when there are I let it download them or I pull them down and side load them with a USB stick. If I don’t want something to phone home, it’

Re: [MBZ] For when Poos moves into his new house

On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 18:53:10 + (UTC) Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote: > Unless the TV has a cell phone included, and once a month or so it > phones home to transmit your data and the conversations it has > recorded. Your data has value, might be worth $10 or less per month to > retrieve it. > >

Re: [MBZ] For when Poos moves into his new house

Unless the TV has a cell phone included, and once a month or so it phones home to transmit your data and the conversations it has recorded. Your data has value, might be worth $10 or less per month to retrieve it. Tue Nov 05 11:23:29 EST 2019 Curley McLain via Mercedes : > I have a "smart

Re: [MBZ] Repainted China Blue 300TD with parchment interior

It nearly Porsche Miami Blue. Bob R Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 5, 2019, at 7:59 AM, Dwight Giles via Mercedes > wrote: > > You are right Dimitri. More 57 chevy blue with touch of teal. > > Dwight Giles Jr. > Wickford RI > >> On Mon, Nov 4, 2019, 11:26 PM Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes <

Re: [MBZ] Repainted China Blue 300TD with parchment interior

One wonders at the expense of R/R the engine and interior (!) to repaint a W123 car with an inauthentic shade of blue. Plus, the interior clashes. YET - the bid price is already at $16K. On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 10:19 AM Mitch Haley via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I know a guy wit

[MBZ] 1973 Mercedes-Benz 400 SE,Florence, SC, $11,000

Looks pretty nice https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/471707637032836/ -- --FT ___ 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/list

[MBZ] 800 dollars per car! Cars don’t run great for parts.

Buy our junk!  5 to choose from https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/82279287244/ -- --FT ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.co

[MBZ] Mercedes Benz MBE4000 DIESEL

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[MBZ] OT this could be interesting

Could be a small RV with interior mods and I bet it could tow a lot so you could haul all your toys behind it.  Kleb could go nationwide collecting cheap Benzes. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2617814411574771/ 2009 Ford E450 Summerville, SC· 17 hours ago

[MBZ] 1992 Mercedez benz 300E - $400 (Myrtle beach)

Doesn't look half bad.  Max could dieselize it https://myrtlebeach.craigslist.org/cto/d/myrtle-beach-1992-mercedez-benz-300e/7013568145.html -- --FT ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or chan

Re: [MBZ] For when Poos moves into his new house

I have a "smart tv"   I want a dumb tv that does not send data all over creation.  We have a working agreement: I never plug in the enet.  It never sends info anywhere.   Works just fine! Floyd Thursby via Mercedes wrote on 11/5/19 9:33 AM: Yeah the built-in apps are kinda clunky.  I have a fir

Re: [MBZ] For when Poos moves into his new house

When/if I ever replace our 58" Panny plasma it'll be an OLED. Nothing else even remotely approaches the video quality of a good plasma. OLED actually beats it. There have only been five different consumer display technologies: CRT, Plasma, LCD, DLP, and OLED. The rest are all variations and m

Re: [MBZ] For when Poos moves into his new house

We just dedicated a laptop to the TV - On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 9:34 AM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Yeah the built-in apps are kinda clunky. I have a firestick and AppleTV > on my TVs so can get most anything. I do OTA sometimes but my antennas > are buried in the

Re: [MBZ] For when Poos moves into his new house

I managed to find a "dumb" tv at Wally world. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sceptre-65-Class-4K-Ultra-HD-2160P-HDR-LED-TV-U650CV-U/48874705 Rick From: mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: November 5, 2019 3:55 AM To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Reply-to: mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: marme...@gmail.com Subject: Re:

Re: [MBZ] For when Poos moves into his new house

Yeah the built-in apps are kinda clunky.  I have a firestick and AppleTV on my TVs so can get most anything.  I do OTA sometimes but my antennas are buried in the forest and the transmitters are a long way off, so that is spotty a good deal of the time. --FT On 11/5/19 10:15 AM, Dan--- via Me

Re: [MBZ] Repainted China Blue 300TD with parchment interior

I know a guy with a 1990s 5sp Caprice wagon (the bulbous one). The guy he bought it from converted it to stick and painted it Richard Petty Blue. The TD looks a lot like that color. > On November 5, 2019 at 9:58 AM Dwight Giles via Mercedes > wrote: > > > You are right Dimitri. More 57 chevy

Re: [MBZ] For when Poos moves into his new house

Whatever it is mine was around $700-$800, so I guess it was a QLED and not the better OLED. A lot of the newer TVs have apps built in to use services like Netflix, but again, the apps that were on my LG sucked and were very kludgy to use. I’m pretty sure you’re locked into their environment, so

Re: [MBZ] For when Poos moves into his new house

My DLP is not smart so I have a fire stick hooked up to it. Do these new smart TVs do Netflix and Prime? Can you download other apps to them as well like you can with a firestick? The OLED are the latest and greatest and most expense I believe. QLED is in the middle with regular LED as the old

Re: [MBZ] Repainted China Blue 300TD with parchment interior

You are right Dimitri. More 57 chevy blue with touch of teal. Dwight Giles Jr. Wickford RI On Mon, Nov 4, 2019, 11:26 PM Dimitri Seretakis via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > They can call it China blue, but it’s not China blue! > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Nov 4, 2019, at 10:36 P

Re: [MBZ] For when Poos moves into his new house

I bought a 65” OLED LG a few months ago to replace a 60” LG plasma TV that was seven years old and starting to show artifacts. I’m happy with it for the most part. It’s a “smart” TV but I don’t connect it to my network but maybe every 60 days or so to get any updates that might be available. La

Re: [MBZ] For when Poos moves into his new house

I am thinking about replacing my current 10 year old 73” DLP with a new TV. It seems like it sort of flickers from brighter to darker at times. Not all the time but most of the time. Sometimes it is barely noticeable. The picture was getting darker and I noticed this before. Bulb was original so

Re: [MBZ] For when Poos moves into his new house

If I was to buy a new TV for the house, new or current, it would be one of those QLED TVs. I’ve looked at them at Costco and the images are amazing. -D > On Nov 5, 2019, at 9:03 AM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes > wrote: > > I saw an ad Sunday for an 83” for like $2200 and a 70” for $499. Cr

Re: [MBZ] For when Poos moves into his new house

I saw an ad Sunday for an 83” for like $2200 and a 70” for $499. Crazy. --FT Sent from iPhone > On Nov 5, 2019, at 4:54 AM, M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes > wrote: > > Meh. Wait a couple of years, and it'll be down to $299. > > On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 9:19 PM Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes

Re: [MBZ] 124/201 ball joint tool

> Hmm. I would suspect that means if they are work hardened (bent) they become > scrap, and are not straightenable. So I believe. OTOH, the electronics will probably take the vehicle permanently out of service anyway. The reduction in fleet service life due to tempering might not be noticeable.

Re: [MBZ] 124/201 ball joint tool

Hot stamped will be hardened, cold stamp will be only work hardened. There are other things to consider as well: Heating to red hot softens the steel, which can easily result in opening up the hole where the joint is pressed, usually making it slightly oval since you are heating on one side. N

Re: [MBZ] OT: Jetta Brakes

> On November 4, 2019 at 9:16 PM Craig via Mercedes > wrote: > So what is this cube thing? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00L6I16NK ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options

Re: [MBZ] 124/201 ball joint tool

Philip, The color in the chart on the second link (SMEX) that is about where I ended heating was in the brown red to blood red color. My friend did talk about what kind of steel and whether or not is was already tempered as big factors, and we decided that these control arms are probably not temp

Re: [MBZ] For when Poos moves into his new house

Meh. Wait a couple of years, and it'll be down to $299. On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 9:19 PM Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-98-class-led-q900-series-4320p-smart-8k-uhd-tv-with-hdr/6352561.p?skuId=6352561 > > > -- > This email has