Diesel RVs

Amen Brian,car payments suck.I did that for 20 years keeping up with the Jones's.Heck drive a Benz and still out do them.

From: BStromsoe <bstromsoe@yahoo.com>
To: "diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com" <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: [diesel_mercedes] Why Do Our Mercedes Diesels Create Bucket List for Us?

Here is a partial answer: My 30 year old daughter was extolling the virtues of her new car yesterday, and ended by mentioning her $306 per month payments. I have not had a car payment in decades. Someone else mentioned their 13 mpg and I thought about my 25 mpg. I can live with a bucket list.

brian from laverne, ca
Mary (195K) Martha (280K)
1983 w123 300d's

From: Chip <czulli@gmail.com>
To: diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 8:13 AM
Subject: [diesel_mercedes] Why Do Our Mercedes Diesels Create Bucket List for Us?

It's so evident reading this board that we all aspire to making our MB diesels better. Some opine for doors that lock, others for motors that turn off with a key. Of course, these are the low level initial desires for at least a modicum of tolerability in our daily drivers.

Still others have risen about these mundane dysfunctions and moved on to such creature comforts as heat in winter.

The elite of this board reach for the highest of expectations on their nearly complete bucket list. Atop that list sits center air vents without pencils and Becker cassette decks that play Wagner.

Chip
Sitting in Houston waiting on my first check off.

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I could see him smirking from underneath the SDL that he was working on as I got up out of my car, opened the hood and shut off the engine. Maybe I should have not expressed my surprise with his shop being open on Martin Luther King Day, after all his shop had been closed all through the Christmas Holidays when I desperately needed parts and advise.

Hans came out from under the long one with the normal expletives about when he chose to open or close his little piece of the Fatherland. I offered up a very rusty and frozen passenger door vacuum lock, he took one look and said he had one.

Into this wonderful room we go that is filled with more old Mercedes parts and manuals than I have ever seen. He fumbles the shelves for a minute or two and then pulls from the original box a perfect match for my vacuum door lock. Then I make a critical error of judgement by asking about vacuum line and if Auto Zone was OK as a source. It was then I realized he had been drinking beer, as he rose to his feet and into my face. The words that he had for anything that was not manufactured by Mercedes were very creative, I dare not post them to this board with two women lucking in our midst.

He pulled down a long roll of vacuum line, the proper kind and let out six feet from it and cut it with something that I am pretty sure was a German Boker.

30 bucks he said, and promise to replace all of that sh*t of vacuum line that you have already f*c*ed the car up with. Next time you come into my shop that hood better not come up.

As I watched him crawled back under the SDL I thought he and I might be developing a tenuous friendship.

Chip
Houston

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