Mmm, flag staff, side markers. Has to be from Japan. But if it's in
American, then isn't it in violation of some import law?
Note that it would be fine to have in Canada, but wonder if the
american owner who ran it hot and fast on 16 year old tranny fluid,
bother to change any other fluids? Let al
My 89 300TE averaged 17.81 MPG (USA) on california premium across
50,397 miles of driving, mostly city, still highway wasn't anything
close to claims.
claim is 17 (city),21 (highway) ,19 (mixed)
18.6 mpg when running on non-california gas for 21,374 miles, but more
highway miles.
This co
On Apr 14, 2008, at 9:01 AM, Gary Hurst wrote:
> i didn't have a driver's license for years until i bought a house.
> they
> owuldn't let me close until i had one, so i got one.
>
> i used to just use my costco card for id
Hah, you realize of course the terrorist they arrested in Port
Ange
Well the fluke non-contact voltage tester is < $30 I believe. Also if
you look at say
http://ca.fluke.com/caen/promotions/demoEquipment/default.asp?pagestep=2&locale=caen
(canada, but usa should have a site)
you can sometimes nab quite a decent fluke product for *much* less.
On Apr 11, 2008, at
Would one of those stud finders that also know about electrical lines
work.
Also my Fluke non-contact voltage tester also makes lots of claims
about sensing things
maybe if you run 9V thru the wire...
Still I think the walkie-talkies make sense.
On Apr 11, 2008, at 10:09 PM, archer wrote:
>
Wife goes out to 92 wagon, clack clack, comes back in complains door
is busted..
Sure enough door check strap makes wicked clacking noise, also it
jumps about in the door.
Drop by dealer to get a new one, clue if it's in stock there you
wonder how long they last.
In looking the old one is
Actually things up here are 20-30% more expensive, versus 50%
However there are choices, would you like that airline ticket in usa
for $1000USA or in cdn for *cough* $1200 cdn?
Oh that's fine I'll charge it for the $1000 usa which might become
$995 cdn when everthing settles...
On Mar 10, 200
The *fun* thing here for you americans is to go away and ask your
insurance company
for *their* opinion Maybe a rate change, or denial of coverage is
in order?
On Mar 10, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Mitch Haley wrote:
>
>
> Alex Chamberlain wrote:
>> But that's just a CYA legal safeguard. The a
On Mar 10, 2008, at 8:22 AM, Alex Chamberlain wrote:
> After another five years they checked
> again with the same results. At some point the powers that be decided
> that airbags don't expire after all---they have an indefinite "shelf
> life." The short version is, don't worry about it.
>
> A
On Mar 5, 2008, at 3:33 PM, R A Bennell wrote:
> them want you to believe. For example, the older Toyota 4Runners
> were never rated very well because their record
> wasn't very good with accidents - lots of injuries. However, my
> understanding is that they tended to be driven by
> people mu
On Mar 2, 2008, at 12:53 PM, Jim Cathey wrote:
> Heartbreak. The engine runs OK, but idles rough and blows a lot of
> white smoke. Could the timing be off?
In the past having a had an IP set with wrong timing, can't remember
if too far before, or after
I can say it nicely produces large volu
As a macintosh developer for the past 24 years I assure you the
developer
community is *itching* to solve all these problems of the lack of AIM
and skype etc
on an iphone and itouch. Plus do the next big $$ thing in this new
mobile
computing market place that Apple has been fostering upon th
Er, well looking at the history books, climate change issues, everyone
dies.
Problem today is lots more people, and life expectancy of 80 years
versus 25.
So much more worry, plus expectation that government will fix it.
On Feb 27, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Loren Faeth wrote:
> Ever heard of Noah?
>
On Feb 26, 2008, at 3:35 PM, Jeff Zedic wrote:
> Ok, so here's a loud-mouthed foreigner spouting off of your system of
> government. I'd like to here what the Americans on the list would
> like to
> fix in their system.
I'm sure all the canadians on the list would like to see the americans
j
T12 tsk, should consider T8
Which is what your government demands...
http://www.va.gov/facmgt/consulting/t8lamps.asp
On Feb 25, 2008, at 12:21 PM, Mitch Haley wrote:
>
> I think I found the lights my friend uses. No wonder it's like a
> sunny day
> at the beach, he's got over a kilowatt of fl
war in
> the
> middle east or until there is no more oil in the middle east,
> whichever
> occurs first.
> Also you seem to have missed the fine print in the Democrat spin which
> was "health care for all (who can pay big bucks to get the doctors off
> the golf course)
Tsk, should have hop a $199 west jet plane to BC and gone visiting
http://www.findprivateclinics.ca/British_Columbia/Diagnostic_Imaging/Radiology/MRI_Scan/lc-2-0-82-0.html
For the most part the canadian health system sorts people by need,
versus $$$.
Personal experience also indicates it's by w
On Feb 23, 2008, at 3:52 PM, Craig McCluskey wrote:
>> I told him that he could call the utility company & they will fix the
>> over voltage problem by moving a tap on his line transformer at no
>> charge.
>
> That's the least they should do.
Speaking of which it's always good to phone your ele
usually because of the heat from office equipment/lights etc the issue
is keeping the heat
down.
I once worked as a consultant in a Sprint owned 20 story building,
during the weekend coding
madness the temp would climb to 90F+ We finally said this is crazy
how much does it cost
to run the
it looks like according to the ETM that
brown/red is to pin 1
grey/red (2 wires) is to pin 2 middle?
brown/violet is to pin 3
I think pin 2 is ground, then pin 1 & 3 left/right
To confirm you can of course once the car is hot
turn one side hot, other side cold and put punch the EC (economy) butto
Currently owning a 92 300TDt and having owned a 89 300TE I can say I'm
bias.
Fine cars, with mb-tex you don't need those sheepskin covers, it's
indestructible.
An E320 wagon is hot stuff, very fast, good milage, work horse, my
wife has
filled them with dirt, 700 lb of lumber, oh endless list
Ah CNR I see. My uncle was a chief engineer with them in blue river,
then station master in north battleford before he
retired. I you look at the headlamp he was responsible for the ones
that rotated so the beam would light up the
track to the left/right on turns in the rockies so the crew wou
On Feb 15, 2008, at 7:20 PM, Peter Frederick wrote:
> and the W126 cars are very very nice. The W140 chassis is also quite
> nice, but suffers from expensive electronics problems, to the point
> no one wants them.
I'll note once you stick in the revised (double/triple/etc) part the
stability
Ah, well actually I live just 3 miles from Viking air here on
Vancouver island who now own the rights
to the original de Havilland designs. They have suggested they are
looking into building new
DHC-3 Otter and possibly the DHC-2 Beaver following strong market
demand for both aircraft.
From
On Feb 7, 2008, at 10:57 AM, E M wrote:
> I'm in Canada. Toyota offer cars almost as good economy, but more
> space and
> just more car in general. While advertised starting at 12, I've
> never seen
> one for that. Used they sell for more here.
>
> Ed
> 300E
Ah, well pricing in canada w
On Jan 30, 2008, at 11:10 AM, Rich Thomas wrote:
> How can that be? There are stringent gun control laws there, no? You
> must be mistaken, the law was meant to take care of that problem.
Ah, yes well it did take care of the domestic violence by gun, and
suicide by gun, just compare
vancouve
On Jan 21, 2008, at 1:03 PM, archer wrote:
> ---
> Perhaps we can get opinions on the Smart Cars from some of our
> European
> members since they are common there.
> Gerry
Well given there are thousands of them in canada now, the canadians
could comment?
I
Wasn't someone talking about McD's & Coffee?
"OLATHE, Kan. -- This fall, a McDonald's here added a position to its
crew: barista.
McDonald's is setting out to poach Starbucks customers with the
biggest addition to its menu in 30 years. Starting this year, the
company's nearly 14,000 U.S. loc
let's see, well being from victoria bc
mmm Coke bottle says...
carbonated water, sugar/ glucose-fructose, carmel
Nope no mention of CORN. Mind we don't have a corn lobby that ensures
the government pays for the entire cost of making the corn,
thus making sugar from corn *free* for large cor
On Jan 4, 2008, at 9:37 AM, R A Bennell wrote:
>
> The one really good thing about McD is that it is pretty consistent.
Also they have aggressive food safety rules which is not to be sneezed
at, chances of dropping in at a random one and getting food poisoning
is low.
Sadly pick your random
On Jan 3, 2008, at 5:07 PM, John Freer wrote:
> Again, I don't know how MB is handling their customers with contracts
> already in place.
I think buried on their site is a document that talks about it. For
most of the
cars you can convert from analog to digital for a fee.. How much you
pay de
Ah, well I was looking at the Grohe UK catalog which has all sorts of
nice
things as compared to usa catalog and *was* wondering why the wall hung
toilet assemblies looked more like a structure you'd find on front of
a fork lift.
On Dec 31, 2007, at 3:00 PM, LWB250 wrote:
> ///
> One of my f
I read somewhere there is a market for used cell phones (well I'm not
sure you get paid for them).
Apparently they are refurbished or recycled. If refurbished they are
then sold into third world countries
where cell phones are likely the only way to get phone service. See
other diesel lists
Ah, mmm I'm sure there must be a bottle of fixer buried in the
basement storage I can go breath.
Speaking of billboards, 10 years back I worked on some software for a
fellow that specialized in computerized color
separation. During the conversion of his software we discovered that
all postsc
On Dec 27, 2007, at 3:34 PM, Tom Hargrave wrote:
> I believe we are insanely over protective and it's caused by the
> information
> age we live in.
Ya, has all sorts of fallout. When we were in california, wanted to
buy a bike for our 6 year old. Couldn't find one!
Why well because bike ridi
On Dec 15, 2007, at 2:50 AM, Zoltan Finks wrote:
> This smell sound familiar? Boy, that sentence sounds weird - rather
> - looks
> weird.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Brian
some evil telfon based product?
I'd say you've some gallons of really cheap CF rated oil you'll need
to buy and run for 20 mi
I was watching a home improvement show where they showed an
alternative to
this for the sump pump. It's a special pump which uses pressurized
water to suck in water then off
to the waste line. When the power is off and the sump pump called for
it opens the water line and away it goes...
was
Ah, hadn't thought of that.
I'll note the W140 hydraulic tank comes with a magnet in the Filter.
It's noted in the parts manual as a "Spacer" however it's just a
cylindrical ring magnet which is dropped in the
filter.
Therefore I tossed one in the 92 and 83 wagon filter's too when I
changed th
On Dec 11, 2007, at 8:21 PM, OK Don wrote:
> I've been pondering alternative ways to heat the house when the power
> is out, given our all electric house.
Well I've a fireplace insert and a 6.5 Kw generator.
However I note for about $100 you can buy a variety of Kerosene or
propane or natural
On Dec 10, 2007, at 8:47 PM, Steve MacSween wrote:
> It's very comfortable and the driving position is excellent, road
> view of a
> minivan but does not feel like you are in one when you are behind
> the wheel.
Have driven one and I can agree, also I've driven the turbo model with
the var
On Dec 10, 2007, at 3:25 PM, Curt Raymond wrote:
> I looked at a little radient heater at the hardware store that can
> double as a cooker, something like 14,000 BTU on high IIRC. Ahh here
> it is http://www.mrheater.com/productdetails_extended.asp?catid=42&id=22
> I know it says outdoor use
I think it was a river, and a ferry. He missed the point of the ferry
and drove down the ramp into the river.
I've a garmin (older) but they shipped me a 2007 map in Oct which
seems quite accurate, certainly had all the new roads in Edmonton that
were missing from the 2005 version.
A friend
On Dec 8, 2007, at 6:05 PM, Wonko the Sane wrote:
> It is cold. Currently +9F outside.
Well 30F here, balmy. However I was pleased to see on my fluke meter
this am
all glow plugs on the 83 measured 0.5 ohms. Starts nicely...
Well I *was* looking for an excuse to buy a nice ratcheting wrench
Ya, I've that on the 93 and 92 wagon. Field tested both the other day,
er much easier in the 500 to abuse that lamp when wet out.
Best favourite here is when my wife came home after driving 30 miles
(50Km) and said oh ya
the coolant lamp was on the whole way. (sigh). Oh no oops I mean the
lo
As a teenager I recall removal of a single lug nut from a 69 cadillac
out on the farm that took all day.
After rounding the nut off via crude use of vice-grips and a 4 foot
length of piping, I believe we resorted to using a hack saw and cold
chisel to split the nut.
Sadly there was no weldin
On Dec 2, 2007, at 3:31 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
> Well I figured out which TV I thought I might want.
Although we hate Consumer Reports for their Mercedes reviews, they
*do* point out yes you can
negotiate a better deal on items at your box store. Given that in a
given geographical regi
> through losing Marshall and then two days later her son, we don't
> expect to outlive our children
They were talking today on the radio how parents today likely WILL
outlive their teenagers,
at least in the USA because of the teenager's low exercise rates,
obesity, health choices, etc.
Th
So what resistance did you measure? Some meters might not give
accurate readings?
Well mind given your other comments likely they are bad.
Disconnect the wires, don't drop the nuts, use one of those racheting
wenches.
If there is not a problem with carbon buildup they should just
unscrew. Ot
On Nov 21, 2007, at 6:34 PM, OK Don wrote:
> The original CDs from MB are scanned copies of the paper manuals - at
> least the one's I have. Yes - most of the one's on eBay are copies of
> the MB manuals.
A friend of mine bought some and the quality was subnormal. He brought
them by to try var
On Nov 20, 2007, at 9:08 AM, archer wrote:
> Gerry wrote:
> I was going to do this but finally realized that the screen would
> have print
> that was too small for me to read with poor visual acuity. Instead
> I simply
> sent a $200 donation.
> These laptops are interesting so I thought som
Well there are other ways to know if the email was opened.
Google shows for example
http://www.returnreceipt.com
http://www.msgtag.com/Mail_Receipt_.html
These use the feature called "web bugs" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_bug
to let some server know when the mail was opened. Users with be
Mmm timely, since I spent all afternoon replacing the rear seat belts
in my w140, so let me cross post this since it explains how Mercedes
manages the locking of the belt.
Last month I got a set of rear seat belts for my W140 sedan, dealer
had a garage sale where I bought a few dozen parts
Ensure you get the one that came with the 2 cycle engine so you can
attempt to train everyone to ensure they mix in the 2 cycle oil
at the gas station, and don't forget
On Nov 15, 2007, at 7:12 AM, Curt Raymond wrote:
> You had me right up until you mentioned all new cars looking the
> sa
The build sheet based on the VIN does (kinda)
my 83 -> Dealer Nato members sales (401)
my 92 300TDt -> Freiburg branch (236)
my 92 S -> Canada (701)
On Nov 13, 2007, at 8:57 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin ((CAT)) wrote:
> Is there a way to tell what country a euro car was originally sold
> in, or pro
I think the pricing on w140 is undervalued because of the stigma of
concern about repairs.
This may result in great deals if you can find one that has the
following fixed
engine wiring harness
evaporator
vacuum pump
lurking transmission issues
beware of the sealed no fluid change ones.
for t
Depending on what you have for lamps/lens the higher wattage bulbs
could melt things because of higher heat.
Normally this is not a problem for mercedes assembles that are not
USA specific.
You are running 20% higher wattage thru the wires, normally this is
not a problem for mercedes, but yo
I'm not sure this is quite true, I was reading somewhere they are
forced to buy equipment from elsewhere and that
equipment meets current nasty first world environmental standards
(such as they are), thus emissions are much
lower than oh say any usa coal fired plant given perhaps they are all
Being in Quebec your local Esso agent (see phone book) should have
anything and everything Mobil.
Mind you need to buy a box of 4 by 4L jugs of Delvac 1.
On Nov 8, 2007, at 9:20 PM, Steve MacSween wrote:
> Anyone know any reason I ought not to use this for winter in an OM617?
>
> I asked about
On Nov 8, 2007, at 6:48 PM, ernest breakfield wrote:
> what does the cost of Corn have to do with BioDiesel? i'd never
> heard of
> anyone anywhere using Corn for BioDiesel; it's far too low-yield and
> doesn't make good enough fuel to even bother with. i've only heard of
> Corn being used (in
On Nov 8, 2007, at 10:22 AM, Loren Faeth wrote:
> Yeah, But I am not miffed at you. It has been fun corresponding with
> you. I am miffed at the bank, cause it was in US dollars. Like I
> said, the US and Canada are so little different, some of this border
> stuff seems really stupid. We have
On Nov 8, 2007, at 8:02 AM, LarryT wrote:
> Along with the electrical consumption req'd to make steel is the power
> needed to make Aluminum - used in ever increasing amounts to save
> weight and
> increase mpg's. Alum needs much more electricity than steel.
Up here in the Pacific NW during t
Well that depends on of course the year, but since you've a diesel
it's an 92/93?
In looking at the manual
With bumper/rear window antenna
the rear bumper is designed for FM reception, the signal is routed
via the FM bumper antenna amplifier installed on
the left side in the thrunk to the AM r
Well unless you live in Canada and want a 92 or earlier w124 diesel
from Europe or Japan (where most benz except the G-wagons seem to be
left hand drive).
Pricing runs 9 to 12K Canadian FOB Japan, you'll need to figure out
how much that is in worthless greenbacks tho.
On Nov 7, 2007, at 10
On Nov 7, 2007, at 6:29 AM, Christopher McCann wrote:
> Got it. I thought of upgrading the SD to HID (High Int. Dis.), but
> it was too expensive, so I upgraded to H4/HB2/9003, which has made
> a world of difference.
I'll note if you use H4 you have a choice of now using
Philips X-Treme Powe
No these are High Intensity Discharge bulbs with xenon gas type
D2R http://www.kfztech.de/images/kfztechnik/elo/xenon2.jpg
your bulbs are tungsten fired bulbs with Xenon gas type HB2/9003/H4
http://www.rallylights.com/hella/H4.asp
To confuse you my w140 came with H4/H3 (1993), then I upg
If it has the ASD feature like my 92 300TDt then it should have two
return lines to the hydraulic reservoir, screwed on top of the tank.
one line is the return feed from the suspension system
2nd line is the return feed from the ASD system.
without ASD there will only be one line.
On Nov 6, 20
Sure work on the trunk and rear seats, and the front of the sedan
feels wanted...
On the way home this morning, when I walk around the car to close the
gate. Gee the driver's side xenon lamp is
PURPLE, not blue, PURPLE... Wife takes car out at lunch, comes back
and no light on driver side.
Early this summer we replaced the distributor caps, rotors, wires,
plugs etc. on the w140. Occasionally it would have a slight miss,
that they felt was
perhaps due to the EGR valve which wouldn't hold a vacuum. Oddly the
dealer said this part wasn't available anymore. A week back I ordered
On Nov 1, 2007, at 1:52 PM, Loren Faeth wrote:
> I think bicycles belong on sidewalks, terrorizing pedestrians as
> they should.
Ah, well here the city has decided (at great expense) that taking
your major four lane road, then turning it into
a bike route by adding two bike lanes, and a traf
On Nov 1, 2007, at 11:22 AM, John Robbins wrote:
> Alex Chamberlain wrote:
>> I think TV screens in the back seat to pacify the rug-rats as a
>> substitute for effective parenting are lame too, but that's another
>> topic.
>
Oddly this has had an interesting effect on kids today. Because we
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Ah from wikipedia
>The 1996 model W210 E-Class carried over the 4-speed automatic
transmission from the previous W124 generation E-Class. In 1997,
Mercedes installed in the E-class its newer, >electronically-
controlled model 722.6 5-speed automatic transmission that first saw
duty in 1996
head gasket issues on the 3 liter engine.
and the transmission shifts into reverse in how many seconds?
On Oct 24, 2007, at 8:47 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin, work wrote:
> Wiring/electrical issues, door closers that dont work cost $600 to
> fix,
> evaporator leaks, if ac not working, figure at least
On Oct 16, 2007, at 8:35 AM, ernest breakfield wrote:
>'twould be interesting if we were ever able to find out the
> details of these IP "trashings"; for example, are we talking about
> homebrew BioD, or some otherwise sub-standard BioD?
>of course if they were running unheated
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=rental+car
+abuse&search=Search
Still they would be newer, they likely had regular approved service,
how would you know the treatment
was *any* different than a car from some used car lot which has no
history...
Is there some large difference in pr
Well regardless of what they imply by american flags etc, I'll note
it looks the same as any other diesel generator made in China. Some
vendors supply GFCI outlets and remote starting btw, and some for a
few bucks more come with sound insulating covers. Like say
http://cgi.ebay.com/LONGEVIT
On Oct 15, 2007, at 2:35 PM, ernest breakfield wrote:
>
> of course, there are lots of stories of people who take
> advantage of
> these motors durability and manage to get away with running all
> kinds of
> things in them for a *while*, but it never seems to last for the long
> run. i've
No it's earlier than that
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_(novel)
On Oct 2, 2007, at 11:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> < Star Trek
> series>>
>
> Star Trek? Oh my goodness gracious sakes.
>
> RLE
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http://www.okiebenz.com
For new parts see official li
I'll note if you have a early W140 transmission (pre 95? non-
electronic) then if you ask mercedes for a rebuilt one, you will find
out they don't have
any in stock, thus require your core to rebuild it at their approved
rebuild centre, helpfully located elsewhere in the country.
Interestingl
Well in my 83 300TD it was located on the driver's side of the
transmission stick shift under the wood console.
On Sep 16, 2007, at 6:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello, I'm new to the list, but not new to Benz ownership. I've got
> an 85 300D turbo. I lost blinkers both turn and emergen
On Sep 15, 2007, at 6:37 PM, tom savage wrote:
> Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
>> I didnt think you liked 140's. Did you sell one that was your
>> parents
>> or something? So tell about the new one you bought? Also tell about
>> this old beat up 95? They getting rid of it?
>
> I've warmed up con
On Sep 10, 2007, at 7:47 AM, Jim Cathey wrote:
> There'll be another bus along in awhile
> if you don't get it. Bid what you think is a fair price, and forget
> about it. Just MHO.
The ebay automatic search function is also great way to find a part
without endless checking on your part.
For
It thought it was more a function of time, relating to how long it
takes for the nitrogen in the sphere to
leak thru/past the rubber housing. Wondering about the spheres in
my 93 500SEL...
On Sep 4, 2007, at 11:36 PM, Peter Merle wrote:
> How long do these "normally" last when vehicle is dr
Also the Airport Express has optical audio out, and you can then
setup your itunes app to beam music to the airport, then onwards to
your A/V system.
Thus I've a gigabyte hub, & airport express lurking in the A/V
cabinet so I can get internet access downstairs, but also beam music
to the am
On Aug 24, 2007, at 10:28 AM, andrew strasfogel wrote:
> We had insurance and they still only reimbursed us $.45 per pound,
> regardless of the items' value. The industry is pathologically
> under-regulated.
Don't get my wife started on this... 5 boxes or so gone...
They didn't write down exac
On Aug 11, 2007, at 8:36 PM, Wonko the Sane wrote:
> A Diesel Purge treatment will fix this. My 240D engine is very good
> about
> telling me when it is time to run on Purge for a half hour.
Ok, back home after doing that mountain driving. In the reverse route
the grades are 4-6% versus 8% s
On Aug 15, 2007, at 7:53 PM, Loren Faeth wrote:
> TO Wonko: Yes it is 266 Mhz, but unlike 266 on windows, a 266 G3
> will run OS 9 or OS 10, illustrator and other Adobe software just
> fine. IN fact these will replace G3 233 machines that are performing
> satisfactorily. They were just so chea
On Aug 14, 2007, at 2:36 PM, Tom Hargrave wrote:
> She cooks like a typical home cook and that's her appeal. 95
> percent of
> America's kitchens would fail their own state's health inspection.
> And I
> can run down a list of the greatest home violations.
Our local health authority offers c
Well since my 500SEL is busy having a rebuilt transmission installed
I was forced to cart four people across the rockies up the Coquihalla
Highway 5 to 8% grade for nearly 3000 feet of altitude in the 92
wagon. For reference the OM603 will only do 75 mph flat out up the
8% grade, water te
On Aug 3, 2007, at 7:37 PM, LWB250 wrote:
>
> That also doesn't factor in the cost savings in energy
> efficiency. While I can't imagine water heater
> technology has gotten to the point of really major
> gains in efficiency over the last 10 years, with other
> appliances it is definitely a con
Ya, consumer reports sawed a bunch in half a year back or so.
They said the 12 year ones were seriously different inside.
Better quality, better durability, better engineering. In fact price
versus what you got was way better.
But I do recall they said the 3 versus the 5 year ones were the sam
When my son was doing blacksmithing we shipped an Anvil that way.
The little
girl at the desk said, oh let me carry the package out for you... We
said, I don't think
let the two of us come in back to carry it. 220lb or something...
Cheap and we certainly weren't concerned if it was packed
Mmm, my dealer had one in which my wife lusted after, it was ony $80k
ish (used) I think it was > $120k or so to the original buyer
so I'd think $400K is a lot of gold faucets or something.
Still it looked quite nice, like a normal sprinter van until you got
closer and saw it had another 4 fee
You report market share numbers, then say you don't count the numbers
from apple's stores or apple online sales, or costco. So where do the
numbers come from then? Staples? Craig's list? obsolete product sales
from tiger distributing?
If you don't count sold items from Apple's normal retail
Ya, own is 100%
"NPD reported figures for January 2007, reporting on a quarter
billion dollars of MP3 players:
NPD’s numbers only cover retailers that supply it with data, which
excludes Apple, Costco, online sales, and mail order outlets.
1. Apple 72.7%
2. Sandisk 8.9%
3. Micros
On Jul 16, 2007, at 8:50 PM, Peter Frederick wrote:
> Wozniak and Jobs made an epic miscalculation
Ya, but they are going to own the music player (that I think they do
already?)
and cell phone business. You wait...
Oddly all of their solutions in this area are Microsoft free zones too.
Oddly t
On Jul 16, 2007, at 3:57 PM, E M wrote:
> Let me throw this out; I've never known a North American company to
> set up shop in China, or to switch to suppliers from China because
> they were trying to improve quality or offer a better product. I'm
> sure there is quality control in China,
This isn't so much a made in china thing, it's an issue with quality
control and expectations from
the buyer. It's not as if Sear actually had factories making this
stuff (did they? Perhaps 100 years back?), they sent engineering
specs (maybe not?) out
and had USA companies build the stuff, t
On Jul 15, 2007, at 1:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I don't know what a B200 is but MB's OE tires are "all season"
> which means
> they're not so good at anything.
>
> RLE
We being in Canada we get stuff way before the USA, perhaps as a
trial run to see if they should
bother with the not
On Jul 14, 2007, at 7:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On another tire note, I have informed the new car manager at Phil
> Smart MB in
> Seattle that my new C300, due in about ninety days, had damned well
> better
> not have Continental tires on it. I don't want Michelins, either,
> but of
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