Diesel RVs: Re: [diesel_mercedes] Neighbors

South Central includes Watts, right? Hell of a neighborhood. Your are pretty brave to even be there. I remember seeing the fires from the riots back in the 60's coming back from a Dodger game. Max

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 9:01 PM, vwnate1@yahoo.com [diesel_mercedes] <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

South Central Los Angeles but I've had similar issues almost every where I have ever lived .

-Nate
Henry wrote :

WTF Nate!!!
I'm guessing they take no responsibility for this? No insurance? No cops?

maybe a security cam, so you can catch them and prove it, in the future?

Jeebus!!

On 4/17/2015 7:56 AM, Nate vwnate1@... [diesel_mercedes] wrote:
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> O.K. a while back the druggies across the street from my GF's house
> decided that side swiping my beloved old Mercedes Diesel Sports Coupe ,
> breaking the mirrors off my two trucks , driving *10' across the
> sidewalk and into the driveway* to bash my '59 Metropolitan Coupe wasn't
> bad enough ~ they decided to back a truck into my Mercedes Coupe's front
> end , the pickup of course was raised up so it cleared the bumper and
> bashed in the grille and shoved the electric AC fan into the AC
> condenser , bending it severely and shattering the electric AC fan
> beyond repair , before once again driving off with nary an " hey F you
> White Boy " . interestingly , none of the Black Folks who live there and
> park in the exact same places , _ever_ gets any damage to their vehicles .
>
> Anyways , the plastic fan shroud was also broken and unknown to me was
> rubbing against the upper tubes of the $500 custom made all metal
> radiator I have in the car , causing three tubes to rupture and leak
> coolant out .
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> I took it all apart and you can see the bent evaporator and the ring
> smashed into it from the AC fan .
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> Fun eh ? .
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> I was able to find an N.O.S. OEM BEHR condenser , after some looking I
> found a real Radiator Shop a few towns over ~ as brass radiators are no
> longer being used in modern cars , few of the shops are left .
>
> The Radiator guy looked at my radiator and commented " this is beautiful
> " ~ then he set about repairing the three tubes and charged me only $40 .
>
> I hope to get it back in the car along with the new AC Condenser and
> SANDEN AC compressor and a new expansion valve plus new radiator hoses ,
> this weekend or maybe early next week .
>
> -Nate
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