These kind of posts make me laugh, I commute 110 miles every day with a 240D, have been doing so for years. The hills here aren't all that big but I do have a 600' elevation change between home and work.
MA drivers are considered some of the more aggressive in the world and I've never had a serious problem with my car "not being fast enough". Somebody said the other day that a 240D is happiest at 60mph, I disagree I think they like best to be flogged up to 80, that keeps the carbon out of the engine. Curt Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:23:58 -0600 From: "Kaleb C. Striplin" <ka...@striplin.net> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] slooow Message-ID: <sig.0404a3d1da.4f4bca3e.1080...@striplin.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed ahh the joys of driving a 240D, this brings back lots of memories. Almost makes me want another one so I can revisit my youth. On 2/27/2012 10:07 AM, Randy Bennell wrote: > On 25/02/2012 10:21 PM, relng...@aol.com wrote: >>> ....An automatic 240D (we had one) is very un-fun in the acceleration >>> department. The words "dangerously slow" tend to come to mind. >>> One of the few cars I've ever driven that could not keep speed >>> up some of our highway hills in this State... >>> >> And my 77hp '78 300D could not climb eastbound Snoqualmie Pass at full >> throttle without shifting down to 3rd which means 45mph in a 60 zone. >> >> RLE >> >> _______________________________________ >> > I would agree with you. Most of the time, one can compensate to some > extent by pre-planning one's moves. Need to pass someone? - then drop > back and approach at speed. If the way is clear, go around and if not, > then slow back down and wait for another opportunity. It helps if one > knows the road well and thus knows where the passing areas are. > > However, there are spots where it is not possible to do that. Coming > out of Kenora onto the westbound highway at the western edge of the > bypass is one of those spots. One must come to a complete stop and > then make a left turn at a T intersection onto the highway. It is an > uphill grade for the next half mile or more. Not steep but enough to > make it difficult to accererate up to 60 mph in any sort of reasonable > period of time. Then there is the traffic approaching from behind at > highway speeds including many big trucks. Cannot really be avoided > unless one takes a totally different route through town and gets onto > the bypass sooner, further east, but I normally don't think to do that > because I only take the car out to the lake, maybe once each year. > Always makes me somewhat nervous to do that turn however. Can get over > onto the shoulder and let vehicles pass me if necessary but that is > not the safest thing to do with the big trucks either as they cannot > give you a whole lot of space if there is oncoming traffic as it is > only a 2 lane highway. > > Randy _______________________________________ 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
