It is with great pleasure that I report none of my 17 Diesel vehicles has
demonstrated unintended spontaneous combustion, even while parked less than
6 feet apart, thus saving the planet from the emissions of an uncontained
lithium battery fire.
On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 7:21 PM Dwight Giles via
yes there is the future of EV's. I park my diesel MB next to my house.
On Wed, Sep 15, 2021, 7:25 PM Allan Streib via Mercedes <
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> "General Motors urged some owners of Chevrolet Bolt electric cars to park
> and store the vehicles at least 50 feet away from other
> Ain’t your neck of the woods already getting ready to implement the death
> panels?
Don't get sick. IMHO there should now be two COVID wards in hospitals. Which
one
you go in should be predicated on the answer to the questions: "Were you
vaccinated?
And why not, exactly?"
Ward 1 is
Over twice what I paid for my 09 Volvo XC90 with less miles. Of course this is
a nicer car: V8, 4Matic, with tow hitch and has video screens.
On Wed, Sep 15, 2021, at 9:15 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote:
> Looks nice seems kinda high for the miles
>
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> > On
I can scavenge fuel from an abandoned vehicle with ICI. There is no way to
suckle electrons from a dead EV. EV goes all of 250 miles at best then needs a
half day to dribble power back in, while I can siphon gas out of all manner of
lawn mower, snow blower, or even toss a garden hose into a
Looks nice seems kinda high for the miles
--FT
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> On Sep 15, 2021, at 8:42 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes
> wrote:
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> This isn't really in Chicago -- New Lenox is a small town, nearly rural, to
> the southwest of the city.
>
>
CME would do a pretty good job of making an errant Nork nuke look like a
mosquito bite. There have been a few doozies this summer that just missed us,
having burped out in places that will make for really nice Northern Lights come
winter. Will have dissipated by then, but if it happens come
Love Niven. Ain’t your neck of the woods already getting ready to implement
the death panels? Think I heard from the Seattle Times columnist that
hospitals there are lacking staff enough to provide basic health services
anymore. Pretty sure it was Spokane as well as SEA and down PDX as well.
This isn't really in Chicago -- New Lenox is a small town, nearly rural, to the
southwest of the city.
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I don't know, when the heater levers actually moved, those old VWs would cook
food in the back seat. Only on the highway, of course.
I used to crack the drivers vent window, that would greatly increase the heat
flow.
needless to say, ours were pretty rusted up, my sister drove it at Purdue
True - I never saw one installed however.
Dad's airplane, a Cessna 195, had a Southwind gasoline heater under the
rear seat. It could keep the cabin at short sleeves temps when it was -30°F
outside!
When properly maintained and operated they are safe - not sure how often
that happens in a car
The only way those old VWs ever had real heat was if they had the gas heater
option. This was essentially a small gasoline-fueled furnace used to heat the
interior. Always seemed like either a carbon monoxide or fire risk (or both) to
me.
Allan
On Wed, Sep 15, 2021, at 7:32 PM, OK Don via
Our '74 Microbus type II had a 2.0 liter FI engine. The one time I had
trouble with it, I cleaned every electrical connector I could find in the
engine compartment and never had another bit of engine trouble. I finally
sold it after too many winter days commuting to work with next to no heat
and
"General Motors urged some owners of Chevrolet Bolt electric cars to park and
store the vehicles at least 50 feet away from other cars to reduce the risk
that a spontaneous fire could spread."
https://www.autonews.com/manufacturing/gm-tells-some-bolt-owners-park-50-feet-away-other-cars
"Perfect condition" but has a rug on the dash. Looks nice otherwise though.
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Pre-2000 MLs are to be avoided. They have a lot of "new model" issues, I’ve
been told.
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> On Sep 15, 2021, at 5:29 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> Rusty fender but otherwise doesn't look too bad. Tow hitch.
>
>
Rusty fender but otherwise doesn't look too bad. Tow hitch.
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As I recall, which is a dangerous thing for times so long ago, FI didn’t appear
in VWs until the early 70s, and it started in the Super Beetle and Type IV
(fastback/squareback/411).
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> On Sep 15, 2021, at 3:16 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> A friend of mine in high school had
My _personal_ survival vehicle would be my trusty '97 Dodge 4wd diesel pickup.
100% mechanical if you lash up the P7100's fuel cutoff solenoid, and you can
push/tow-start it if need be. (Steep hill recommended!) But I am not a
prepper, in any real sense, so I don't have all that other stuff.
I presume your survival vehicle is a pre-computer controlled diesel , and
part of your survival tool kit is a reliable fuel transfer [multiple
options] mechanical device? Aux tanks to extend range?
See Mad Max movie... ;))
On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 1:04 PM Jim Cathey via Mercedes <
> I think you're putting a lot of faith into your ability to refuel, especially
> after, say, a month...
Again, not MY ability to refuel. Just that enough people would be able to
refuel,
probably by violence and theft, to help spread the fall of civilization. With
EV
the rot is a day's
I think you're putting a lot of faith into your ability to refuel, especially
after, say, a month...
I'm also not sure, if the issue were country-wide, that there is anywhere to go
short of getting out of the city.
-Curt
On Wednesday, September 15, 2021, 03:43:31 PM EDT, Jim Cathey
With an EV, your radius from home is essentially fixed. With a fueled vehicle,
it isn't.
That's the distinction I'm calling out. Think of the citizens as a disease
vector.
Starving, violent resource-less people overrunning those who might have a chance
of survival/recovery, if they weren't
I guess I don't understand, we're assuming a case where both vehicles start
with no fuel/electricity? Why would we do that? An electric car sitting, turned
off, will no doubt lose charge but what time period are we talking about? You
seem to have some assumptions there that you haven't
> How is that different than ICE vehicles?
Fuel stores.
> If I've got an electric vehicle and an off grid solar power system I can
> generate power to charge my car. It might take weeks but I could do it.
What are you eating while you wait for the charge?
> If I'm out of gas/diesel and there
A friend of mine in high school had a clapped-out Scirocco that he had removed
the FI from and installed a carburetor. I gather was a pretty common
home-mechanic approach to dealing with FI problems before engines got so
computerized that it was no longer possible.
Neighbors growing up had a
You might want to rethink that plan to use solar panel system to recharge
your EV car after EMP event.
How is that different than ICE vehicles? If I've got an electric vehicle and
an off grid solar power system I can generate power to charge my car. It might
take weeks but I could do it.
If I'm out of gas/diesel and there has been a disruption to supply I'm screwed.
-Curt
On Wednesday,
The best thing that could happen to ensure the survival of our civilization,
in some form after a major disruption, would be a widespread reliance on
electric vehicles. When the shit hit the fan the cities and their residents
would mostly all die right away, because they couldn't get out very
> The Amish would be screwed. Too many know they're there, they'd be overrun
> by two-legged rats in no time. And they're non-violent.
I'd guess they forgot to read the part about "beating plowshares into swords."
That said, they do own and use guns, for hunting. If they were being overrun,
I had a 71 Fastback that was the requisite VW orange. Great car after I yanked
the Bosch FI and installed dual carbs. In fairness, the PO had boogered up the
FI somehow and it was beyond my budget at the time to resolve, so I went the
way of dual carbs.
-D
> On Sep 15, 2021, at 2:50 PM,
Which Makes Me Crazy.
-D
> On Sep 15, 2021, at 11:28 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
> wrote:
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> My Phone Capitalizes Every First Letter That I Write
>
> 2015 Mercedes C300
>
> https://charleston.craigslist.org/cto/d/summerville-great-car/7380421029.html
>
> --
> --FT
>
>
EMPs are not magic. They're radio, and are subject to inverse-square laws.
The devices in question are capable of surviving some level of unwanted
signal, the EMP failure scenarios are just where the pulse is too strong
and swamps the inputs, destructively. Things with long wires (antennae)
are
Rode in one of these in Mpls. back when they first were sold. Very
sprightly yet also cheap and inconsequential car.
On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 2:44 PM Bob Rentfro via Mercedes <
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> In 1973, I was 13. My friend’s father bought a 1968 Squareback even though
> he had
When I was at military survival school, the question was, "What is the
difference between a gourmet and a violent scavenger?"
Answer: "About 7 days without food."
On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 11:36 AM Jim Cathey via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> Our civilization, having opted for
In 1973, I was 13. My friend’s father bought a 1968 Squareback even though he
had never driven a manual transmission before (he didn’t even get a DL until he
was 35). That summer I taught him, his wife and several other people in the
neighborhood how to drive a manual in that Squareback. I love
An effective EMP event does not require a huge nuke. A small nuke,
detonated at altitude to maximize coverage.. or several small nukes
perhaps, could fry every circuit board and computer system. Your "smart
phone" would be a brick, TV stations, banks, gas pumps, food stores, cash
registers the
Our civilization, having opted for efficiency over resilience, is fragile.
Any sufficient disruption would have a domino effect, ending up in
the 'Mad Max' scenario. People would starve/sicken/die BEFORE
infrastructure repairs could be accomplished. The desperate would
plunder those working to
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Interestingly both Angie's and my mother had VW Type III fastbacks when we were
born. In realizing that Angie has decided it'd be cool to have a Type III. I've
always thought the wagons were cool.I've never seen one that wasn't wicked
So you're thinking of a really massive EMP right? Something let off in the
upper atmosphere?
It's hard to an imagine an EMP of that size.
Besides which theres the rest of the world, or are you imagining a world-wide
EMP?
-Curt
On Wednesday, September 15, 2021, 02:23:03 PM EDT, Scott
Which is why I'll never sell my 300SD. But expect many roads to become
impassible with manned checkpoints (where robbers will kill you and steal your
car) and millions of dead modern cars, frozen in place since the event.
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From: Mercedes On Behalf Of Kaleb Striplin
In a wide-spread EMP event essentially all modern electronic systems, including
the power grid, stop working, permanent damage. Without deliveries of food (or
anything else), inability to pump water, lack of refrigeration, and no modern
medicine, things get bad fast. The breakdown of law
Stealth
--FT
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> On Sep 15, 2021, at 12:58 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes
> wrote:
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> If white/tan is for realtors, what is grey/black?
>
> https://cincinnati.craigslist.org/cto/d/cincinnati-mercedes-benz-s500-for-sale/7380592560.html
>
>
Those driving a 240D might survive also.
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> On Sep 15, 2021, at 12:58 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes
> wrote:
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>
>>
>> How would an EMP event cause 90% fatalities?
>
> Instant return to Amish living. No groceries, no gasoline, no natural gas, no
> propane, no
>How would an EMP event cause 90% fatalities?
Instant return to Amish living. No groceries, no gasoline, no natural gas, no
propane, no electricity.
With supply chain disruptions what they are currently, it's difficult enough to
get repair parts, etc. With no supply chain at all, what happens.
I think they mean over the medium term, lack of access to clean water, life
supporting drugs etc.Certainly my own survival long term without certain
medications is a bit suspect. Based on past experience I'd have about 10 years.
Sometimes when considering post apocalyptic type scenarios I
How would an EMP event cause 90% fatalities? I’m not disputing, just trying to
understand.
Certainly stuff would break and cause some fatalities, but I find it difficult
to imagine a number so high.
-D
> On Sep 15, 2021, at 1:36 PM, Scott Ritchey via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> Not unlike the
Not unlike the era when ships were made of wood and the men were made of
steel. They say that a wide-scale EMP event would result in 90% fatalities.
I suspect higher, especially urban areas. Given systemic failures to harden
the grid maybe we would be better served learning how to survive
If white/tan is for realtors, what is grey/black?
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> On Sep 15, 2021, at 11:28 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
> wrote:
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> My Phone Capitalizes Every First Letter That I Write
>
> 2015 Mercedes C300
>
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>
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> --FT
>
>
Lovely color and looks quite nice but engine concerns?
'06 Mercedes-Benz E350 Wagon - $7,000(Savannah)
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Probably abandoned at the shop... anything to fix it or is it dead dead?
Has no title.
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