Re: [MBZ] W210 and rust

2013-01-07 Thread Jaime Kopchinski
Why so rude? This isn't BANNED, is it? You really should lighten up a bit on the normal list. On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 11:07 PM, relng...@aol.com wrote: ...Thats pretty awesome, but no reason you can't go there with a rear wheel drive car! They're designed and tested to handle far worse

Re: [MBZ] W210 and rust

2013-01-07 Thread Brian Toscano
Was RLE writing with sarcasm? Is it true that perch rust only occurs in 2WD models? On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:50 AM, Jaime Kopchinski jaime...@gmail.com wrote: Why so rude? This isn't BANNED, is it? You really should lighten up a bit on the normal list. On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 11:07 PM,

Re: [MBZ] W210 and rust

2013-01-07 Thread Jaime Kopchinski
Just getting a bit sick of the constant bickering he seems to be involved in. On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Brian Toscano brian.tosc...@gmail.comwrote: Was RLE writing with sarcasm? Is it true that perch rust only occurs in 2WD models? On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:50 AM, Jaime Kopchinski

Re: [MBZ] W210 and rust

2013-01-07 Thread Jon Agne
Burr under saddle blanketor is it rust on the perch??? On Jan 7, 2013, at 7:50 AM, Jaime Kopchinski wrote: Why so rude? This isn't BANNED, is it? You really should lighten up a bit on the normal list. On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 11:07 PM, relng...@aol.com wrote: ...Thats pretty

Re: [MBZ] W210 and rust

2013-01-07 Thread dseretakis
My understanding is that the spot welds that hold the perch to the chassis rust and fail leading to potentially catastrophic results which could lead to a fatal accident. I'm not aware of anyone getting killed from this though. The W210 chassis is very rust prone in general. I have seen many

Re: [MBZ] W210 and rust

2013-01-07 Thread Mitch Haley
Brian Toscano wrote: Is it true that perch rust only occurs in 2WD models? Yep. The spring perch is the upper spring seat, right above the control arm. Now imagine a drive shaft going out to the hub, right through the middle of that spring. Obviously, the spring has to go elsewhere. The

Re: [MBZ] W210 and rust

2013-01-06 Thread RELNGSON
...Thats pretty awesome, but no reason you can't go there with a rear wheel drive car!  They're designed and tested to handle far worse than that... Start paying attention. Just yesterday I was corrected firmly in re: W210 rusting spring perches and was triumphantly informed that only the