Re: [MBZ] "balance shaft" problem M272/M273 engines

  FWIW - Speaking of the Balance Shaft issue - my CEL came on shortly after I bought the car (I use the term "car" loosely) and I took it to the dealer for diagnosis.  When I learned how deep in the engine this problem lurked I spoke with dealer employees afout what I had.  One parts

[MBZ] 2007 S550 rebuilt title due to suspension damage - 91k miles - $8, 800

Pretty nice looking but price seems crazy for a 14 year old car that's had major damage. https://louisville.craigslist.org/cto/d/louisville-clean-2007-mercerdes-benz/7345504091.html ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

Re: [MBZ] OT Electric Vehicles On Collision Course With Reality

Bulk freight, not parcel freight, and never scheduled. We still move way to much stuff by truck. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

[MBZ] OT: Element dead again

Well that didn't last long. Element transmission quit on me again today. Fortunately I was able to roll off the road in a safe place and call son to come with the tow chain and pull me home. Now have to make that "fix it or scrap it" decision. I'm not crazy about the car, but it is in pretty

Re: [MBZ] OT Electric Vehicles On Collision Course With Reality

Freight rail is heavily used in the USA, more than most of the rest of the world. Freight railroads own most of the track which is why passenger service is a second class citizen except in the northeast where Amtrak owns some routes. On Fri, Jul 2, 2021, at 7:51 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes

Re: [MBZ] OT Electric Vehicles On Collision Course With Reality

Back in the day (say the 30s-40s) cities were THE desirable places to live and work. Cities had restaurants, entertainment, transportation, and amenities, like power, water, and sewage. Now the cities have crime, homelessness, high costs, filth, and incredible taxes. In the meantime, rural

Re: [MBZ] "balance shaft" problem M272/M273 engines

I bought a set of DVDs like that for my '06 E350 Gasser - it runs on VMWare and initially it ran fine on my Win10 Home system until a Win Update did something I don't understand. Since that update, I get an error saying VMWare is not compatible with Hyper-V.  Research says W10 Home does not  

Re: [MBZ] OT Electric Vehicles On Collision Course With Reality

It is a law of nature that two things represent the extreme ends of any spectrum. Government on one end, and Reality and Logic on the other. A bridge built of borrowed money to be paid back with taxes will never be able to connect the two ends. On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 7:48 PM Larry Turner via

Re: [MBZ] OT Electric Vehicles On Collision Course With Reality

Eric the Car Guy does not feel the electric cars will save the world. EV is a religion not a solution. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cC18ZntMrg Clay inter urinas et faeces nascimur > On Jul 2, 2021, at 2:24 PM, OK Don via Mercedes wrote: >

Re: [MBZ] OT - batteries and their warrantees

I stopped using Costco batteries as I found them to leak in several instances. I went back to using Duracells. -D > On Jul 2, 2021, at 7:04 PM, OK Don via Mercedes wrote: > > For the first time, I decided to test the "we'll replace your device if our > battery leaks and kills it". Three

Re: [MBZ] OT Electric Vehicles On Collision Course With Reality

Am I being too simplistic to wonder what will happen when all the cars are electric (green wet dream) and all other consumer electronic/electrical devices depend on plug in 110v for charging?  Seems to me, when that kind of demand hits, the solar and wind farms will be woefully unable to

Re: [MBZ] OT - batteries and their warrantees

Is the check going to be drawn on a bank in Nigeria? On Fri, Jul 2, 2021, 7:05 PM OK Don via Mercedes wrote: > For the first time, I decided to test the "we'll replace your device if our > battery leaks and kills it". Three Rayovac fancy AAA batteries leaked in my > fancy though inexpensive

Re: [MBZ] OT Electric Vehicles On Collision Course With Reality

No, the freight rail issue was the railroads trying to get a monopoly and shut everyone else down. Huge shipping rate wars resulted in the collapse of the rail beds and operations because they weren't making enough money, in spite of being able to legally cooperate on setting rates. Corporate

Re: [MBZ] OT Electric Vehicles On Collision Course With Reality

> Electric just pushes the carbon use off to another place. For most. In WA, a significant majority of electricity is generated without carbon as a 'working fluid'. There are other 'green' (-ish) states, such as Vermont. See:

Re: [MBZ] OT Electric Vehicles On Collision Course With Reality

> Naturally, GM bought it and shut is down I heard the same type of thing happened with freight by rail years ago too. Again, at the behest of GM. Not sure if that's the truth, or folklore. Rick ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

Re: [MBZ] OT Electric Vehicles On Collision Course With Reality

Having been in Europe long enough, I'd much rather take the train on a trip. Back before the suburban craze, every city had good transportation systems, LA was superb. Naturally, GM bought it and shut is down ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list

Re: [MBZ] OT Electric Vehicles On Collision Course With Reality

>since we won't be paying huge amounts of money for the "freedom" of driving >ten miles to the grocery and 50 miles to work every day Or the "freedom" of taking a driving vacation. Or the "freedom" to visit your kids away at college. Or the "freedom" of visiting dying parents several

Re: [MBZ] OT Electric Vehicles On Collision Course With Reality

As I have said for decades, the actual solution to using carbon fuels is to quit driving and doing things like mowing huge lawns. Electric just pushes the carbon use off to another place. The correct solution, as I see it, to too many cars burning fossil fuels is to re-build our cities to

Re: [MBZ] OT Electric Vehicles On Collision Course With Reality

The primary justification for electric vehicles is reducing CO2, which they don't when you look at the entire cycle of building and operating one. I didn't see that in his summary, and admit that I didn't read the complete transcript. On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 2:59 PM Meade Dillon via Mercedes <

Re: [MBZ] Green looks nice but overpriced 2000 Mercedes-Benz M-Class ML 320 Sport Utility 4D, $5, 000

If you gotta have a green ML then you will pay up for this rare color. On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 5:31 PM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Driven 119,235 miles > > https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/577578416954880 > > -- > --FT > >

Re: [MBZ] A Stunning low mileage (62, 053 Miles) example 1989 Mercedes-Benz 560 SL, $42, 900

As effective as but way more expensive than Sominex... On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 5:43 PM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Crazy > > https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/4299483340100324 > > -- > --FT > > > ___ >

[MBZ] A Stunning low mileage (62, 053 Miles) example 1989 Mercedes-Benz 560 SL, $42, 900

Crazy https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/4299483340100324 -- --FT ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

Re: [MBZ] OT Electric Vehicles On Collision Course With Reality

Here in the midwest I am seeing more EVs than I used to, but they're still rare enough that you notice them. Bear in mind I live in a very left-leaning university town. There are also a lot of wealthy foreign students that buy exotic cars to use while they are in school. Maseratis, Ferraris,

[MBZ] Green looks nice but overpriced 2000 Mercedes-Benz M-Class ML 320 Sport Utility 4D, $5, 000

Driven 119,235 miles https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/577578416954880 -- --FT ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

Re: [MBZ] OT Electric Vehicles On Collision Course With Reality

Yeah, another point, brought up the late Dr. Marshall Booth, is the road / fuel taxes. He argued this for the "grease kit" fad, that people brewing their own fuel were avoiding the fuel tax at the pump, which pays for roads. Some states are trying to address that with increased registration fees

Re: [MBZ] OT Electric Vehicles On Collision Course With Reality

No middle or poor people in GWN have electron power car. SEA has a goodly market, but the only folks with median or below income who own said car are UBER drivers running former municipal LEAF or Priuapus that just squeak under the age limits. On the other side of the fence are the uber rich

[MBZ] Needs paint job or wrap 2008 Mercedes-Benz E-Class E 550 Sedan 4D, $4, 000

to cover up the Bondo https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1477113042641011 -- --FT ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

Re: [MBZ] OT Electric Vehicles On Collision Course With Reality

It's like "free college" plans. What will happen is the working class taxpayers who don't go to college will end up footing the bill for the white collar people who do, and who will earn more money and end up being their bosses. On Fri, Jul 2, 2021, at 3:58 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote:

Re: [MBZ] This is Nice, But...

Yep prices are out of control Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 2, 2021, at 12:31 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes > wrote: > > Holy. $20k for an 11 year old stripper with 23k on the clock: > > https://www.carmax.com/car/20866110?adcode=EM_SS1Match > > -D > >

Re: [MBZ] OT Electric Vehicles On Collision Course With Reality

Most damning, in my mind, are the very regressive policies which make poor people pay for rich people to enjoy electric cars. Poor people pay electric bills, and part of those bills are the infrastructure upgrades to the grid. Middle class people pay taxes, some of those taxes pay for incentives

Re: [MBZ] OT Electric Vehicles On Collision Course With Reality

Thank you Max. Dwight Giles Jr. Wickford RI On Fri, Jul 2, 2021, 3:40 PM Meade Dillon via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Robert Bryce testified before a House committee yesterday on the subject of > electric vehicles. > > >

[MBZ] OT Electric Vehicles On Collision Course With Reality

Robert Bryce testified before a House committee yesterday on the subject of electric vehicles. https://docs.house.gov/meetings/CN/CN00/20210630/112853/HHRG-117-CN00-Wstate-BryceR-20210630.pdf Robert is one of the country’s most knowledgeable experts on energy, and I encourage you to read his

Re: [MBZ] This is Nice, But...

This is true, but a Mercedes mechanic I know says that the warranties they offer are great - he’s had as much as $8k worth of work on their cars and they pay the bill, no questions asked. For that he says it’s worth it. For sure. -D > On Jul 2, 2021, at 3:16 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes >

Re: [MBZ] This is Nice, But...

CarMax prices at the top of the market or above and their "no haggling" policy for some reason makes people think it's a good deal. https://indianapolis.craigslist.org/cto/d/indianapolis-2008-ford-ranger/7345110258.html On Fri, Jul 2, 2021, at 1:30 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: >

Re: [MBZ] This is Nice, But...

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/june-auto-sales-fall-below-expectations-saar-154-million-due-falling-dealer-inventory Kaleb may have new and used inventory numbers and trends because of his line of work. It won't be getting better anytime soon. Plus, a lot of semiconductor manufacturing is in

[MBZ] This is Nice, But...

Holy. $20k for an 11 year old stripper with 23k on the clock: https://www.carmax.com/car/20866110?adcode=EM_SS1Match -D ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

[MBZ] Good example of how cleaning your car and taking good photos makes an ad much more interesting.

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Re: [MBZ] 04E320 $1500 obo looks decent, trans in limp mode

It's actually an 03E500, if it's a 722.6 (apparently could be ordered with the 722.9) easy fix --FT On 7/2/21 7:16 AM, Buggered Benzmail wrote: Could be a good deal if 722.6 https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/922949705216648/ --FT Sent from iPhone -- --FT

[MBZ] 04E320 $1500 obo looks decent, trans in limp mode

Could be a good deal if 722.6 https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/922949705216648/ --FT Sent from iPhone ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: