I fully agree with you on that, however, my current situation is such that I am
living in an apartpit and don't have a place to work on the car.
Once this situation is resolved (September 16, to be exact) that will change.
Dan
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On Aug 25, 2011, at 4:42 PM, Fmiser
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:18 -0400, Dan Penoff lwb...@yahoo.com wrote:
When the stealership does oil and filter changes here for under $20,
it's not worth the time and trouble to change the oil myself...
No dealer around here does oil changes that cheaply anymore. Last
dealer oil change I had
It's a Ford marketing ploy to get you in and find other work to do. Nothing new
there.
My car is maintained well enough that they are usually hard pressed to find
anything wrong with it. In fact, since I used the same service writer, he
doesn't even bother with the upsell garbage.
Dan
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Allan Streib wrote:
The places that do offer cheap oil changes, I would not trust that they
are using quality oil, filters, or personnel.
The local Chebby dealer does cheap oil changes (cheaper than the Outshiner car
wash or Wal-Mart) with coupons that are available more often than my mom's
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:37 -0400, Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote:
The local Chebby dealer does cheap oil changes (cheaper than the
Outshiner car wash or Wal-Mart) with coupons that are available more
often than my mom's car needs an oil change. The last time I changed
the oil myself, I
Yup. Motorcrap filter and their synthetic blend oil.
I look at it this way:
If I reverted back to Mobil1 and stock Motorcrap filters and did the deed
myself, it would cost me almost double what the stealership charges me to do it.
I have trained them to ignore the effort to upsell me, so since
Both my local dealers are $50/oil, if they don't also do the $40
rotation without asking. (Though I got a coupon for a free oil
change; they also noted to -never do tire rotations- for me again. :)
They don't even bother sending me coupons anymore, they were usually
only $5 off and not valid on
My $2 sucker/topsider does it in about 5 min.
Wilton
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Subject: Re: [MBZ] $1000 car
Both my local dealers are $50/oil, if they don't also do
Randy Bennell wrote:
http://g.co/maps/bm8e
Looks like less than 2km by carrier pigeon.
Is it feasible to ride a bicycle down 42?
Or would you have to take University Crescent?
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On 26/08/2011 2:16 PM, Mitch Haley wrote:
Randy Bennell wrote:
http://g.co/maps/bm8e
Looks like less than 2km by carrier pigeon.
Is it feasible to ride a bicycle down 42?
Or would you have to take University Crescent?
It would be feasible to walk or bicycle especially if I went overland on
Wow, I didn't know that Gump was a $120 car! 60K miles out of a $2K total
investment = double wow! That's way less than the average car payment for
average transportation, and a W115 is far from that, IMO. He served you
well indeed!
Kevin in Hillsboro, Oregon
My trucks have all been $400 or less.
Trick is to get em when you know what's wrong with them, and the repair
costs are worth it.
Walt
On Aug 25, 2011 3:06 AM, kevin kraly kr...@comcast.net wrote:
Wow, I didn't know that Gump was a $120 car! 60K miles out of a $2K total
investment = double
My first MBZ was a $500 240d. I drove it 30k miles or so. Steve MacSween
put an engine in it an as far as I know is still driving it. There IS such
a thing as a cheap Mercedes if you aren't anal about perfection. I have put
6k miles on my $1100 300d on near free wvo and have replaced one rear
Bought the '82 in '94 for $ 2,500. Huge investment.
1 motor (entirely my fault), 1 tranny + misc. repairs later (starter,
steering and suspension, A/C, etc.) I now have less than maybe $ 8,000 in
it.
That boils down to $ 500/year or 2 months worth of car payments/year for a
daily driver.
--
Hans
Well served. That is why I am able to reluctantly let her go. My PnP stash is
another $250 investment that should translate into good cash on sale. All I
need are buyers. I kaleb would come this way, he could have a containers worth
of parts to peddle.
Clay
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On Aug 25,
On 24/08/2011 10:14 PM, Redghost wrote:
Gump was $120. I got 60k miles on her, spent $2k, drove 6 years. He'll of a
lot better investment than some cars. Will get at least that much as scrap,
and have sold enough parts off her to cover a few tanks of fuel.
Compare that with a nice little
Randy Bennell wrote:
Some of the cost was labour as I had to have a major (clutch
replacement) repair in the dead of winter and paid to have it done at a
shop. ($3600 or thereabouts).
Wow. I'm thinking $700 parts, $400 labour in the worst case. How does the tab
get run up to $3k?
Dead of winter --- that's how it gets ran up.
Walt
On Aug 25, 2011 1:23 PM, Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote:
Randy Bennell wrote:
Some of the cost was labour as I had to have a major (clutch
replacement) repair in the dead of winter and paid to have it done at a
shop. ($3600 or
On 25/08/2011 12:22 PM, Mitch Haley wrote:
Randy Bennell wrote:
Some of the cost was labour as I had to have a major (clutch
replacement) repair in the dead of winter and paid to have it done at
a shop. ($3600 or thereabouts).
Wow. I'm thinking $700 parts, $400 labour in the worst case. How
On 25/08/2011 1:12 PM, Walt Zarnoch wrote:
Dead of winter--- that's how it gets ran up.
Walt
Well, I don't think I was robbed. The shop is owned by someone I know.
The head mechanic is my brother in law and he was the one who did the
work on it.
My son later served part of his
Randy Bennell wrote:
These trucks have torsion bars that go into the cross member at the back
end of the bar so one cannot pull the cross member unless one wishes to
release and remove the torsion bars etc so it makes for a bit of a job
to get the tranny and transfer case out. Had to cut the
On 25/08/2011 1:28 PM, Mitch Haley wrote:
Randy Bennell wrote:
These trucks have torsion bars that go into the cross member at the
back end of the bar so one cannot pull the cross member unless one
wishes to release and remove the torsion bars etc so it makes for a
bit of a job to get the
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Randy Bennell rbenn...@bennell.ca wrote:
On 25/08/2011 12:22 PM, Mitch Haley wrote:
Randy Bennell wrote:
Some of the cost was labour as I had to have a major (clutch replacement)
repair in the dead of winter and paid to have it done at a shop. ($3600 or
Wasn't implying you were, I just know that billed hours are understandably
more in the winter, since ma nature likes throwing a hockey puck in the
works for you.
Walt
On Aug 25, 2011 2:25 PM, Randy Bennell rbenn...@bennell.ca wrote:
On 25/08/2011 1:12 PM, Walt Zarnoch wrote:
Dead of winter---
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:28 -0400, Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote:
I thought that Ford had been concentrating on designing for ease of
maintenance since they introduced the Tempo in what, 1983? Maybe they
were only talking about making oil changes simple.
If so they've failed. The oil
When the stealership does oil and filter changes here for under $20, it's not
worth the time and trouble to change the oil myself...
Dan
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On Aug 25, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote:
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:28 -0400, Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net
I would also add that other companies, such as Nissan, are not making things
easy, either. Try changing filters on an Altima sometime. If you don't get the
car in the air, the filter can only be reached by turning the wheels to the
left stop and reaching in through the right side wheel well.
On 25/08/2011 2:06 PM, Allan Streib wrote:
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:28 -0400, Mitch Haleym...@voyager.net wrote:
I thought that Ford had been concentrating on designing for ease of
maintenance since they introduced the Tempo in what, 1983? Maybe they
were only talking about making oil changes
On 25/08/2011 2:18 PM, Dan Penoff wrote:
When the stealership does oil and filter changes here for under $20, it's not
worth the time and trouble to change the oil myself...
Dan
In my experience, they rob me if I ask for Mobil 1.
Randy
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Randy Bennell wrote:
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I would not say that a system that requires the transmission to be
removed in order to get to the slave cylinder is designed for easy
maintenance. It is a circular design that goes around the main input
shaft to the transmission.
Dan Penoff wrote:
I would also add that other companies, such as Nissan, are not making things easy, either. Try changing filters on an Altima sometime. If you don't get the car in the air,
I think the point is the car is supposed to be over a pit or on a lift, as they
do not expect anybody
Very true.
However, my Ford Focus wagon has a complete dealer service history from the
date of delivery, so my MB-ness forces me to continue work at the dealer
whenever it makes fiscal sense, as this does.
They use the Motorcraft synthetic blend, whatever that is. But I have broken
them of
SWMBA paid $3k cash to the body shop to pound out dents idiot son put in the
rear of the e300d. Did not do full job by replacing bumpers. She thinks Gump
is a poor investment and expects me to replace it with some plastic car.
Now I drive the e d with duct tape instead. Paid cash for both
Subject: Re: [MBZ] $1000 car
On 25/08/2011 2:06 PM, Allan Streib wrote:
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:28 -0400, Mitch Haleym...@voyager.net wrote:
I thought that Ford had been concentrating on designing for ease of
maintenance since they introduced the Tempo in what, 1983? Maybe they
were only talking
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Randy Bennell wrote:
Some of the cost was labour as I had to have a major
On 25/08/2011 4:38 PM, Curt Raymond wrote:
I'm thinking Randy doesn't drive much ;)
Last time I had a clutch done it was about $1000, that was my '83 240D which
actually needed a center carrier bearing (noisy) but got a replacement
transmission. Figured to do the clutch while the trans was
http://g.co/maps/bm8e
trying again
Randy
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On 8/25/11 6:29 PM, Randy Bennell wrote:
We went to Fargo last week for a couple of days and that is about 210
miles due south.
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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:29:34 -0500
From: Randy Bennell rbenn...@bennell.ca
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: Re: [MBZ] $1000 car
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On Aug 25, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Allan Streib wrote:
... The oil filter on our Focus is on the
back of the transverse-mounted engine, only accessible from
underneath the car with an arm hooked around the passenger
side front axle.
Dan Penoff wrote:
When the stealership does oil and
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1000 Dollar Car Lyrics
The Bottle Rockets
Thousand dollar car it ain't worth nothin'
Thousand dollar car it ain't worth shit.
Might as well take your $1000,
and set fire to it.
$1000 car ain't worth a dime,
You lose your $1000 every time.
Oh why did I ever buy, a $1000
Rolf wrote:
Ripped from benzworld :
1000 Dollar Car Lyrics
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Thousand dollar car it ain't worth nothin'
Thousand dollar car it ain't worth shit.
Might as well take your $1000,
and set fire to it.
I find that $1000 cars can be a real bargain - but only because
I don't
I like it. Sounds like a song they should play on Car-talk.
Max
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Rolf r...@winmutt.com wrote:
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Thousand dollar car it ain't worth nothin'
Thousand dollar
On 24/08/2011 1:11 PM, Fmiser wrote:
Rolf wrote:
Ripped from benzworld :
1000 Dollar Car Lyrics
The Bottle Rockets
Thousand dollar car it ain't worth nothin'
Thousand dollar car it ain't worth shit.
Might as well take your $1000,
and set fire to it.
I find that$1000 cars can be a real bargain
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Rolf wrote:
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