I worked for a guy whose wife was deeply involved in the development and marketing when they lived in New Jersey (their families were from SFO, which is where I worked for him.)
I spoke to her about it several times, and while she was pretty closed mouthed about the whole thing, he told me on more than one occasion that internally the 190 was considered a failure. Nothing new here.... Dan ________________________________ From: Allan Streib <str...@cs.indiana.edu> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 8:29 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] Rust On Wednesday, November 23, 2011 1:15 AM, "Larry T" <l02tur...@comcast.net> wrote: > I think soimething happend around the mid-90s with MB QC - not sure > what but things went downhill. European regulations on paint, required a change to a water-based paint with less VOC emissions, took a few years to sort it out. Same sort of thing that gave us the biodegradable wiring harness at about the same time. Allan _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
