Jaime is just trying to be more like me. First he moves to the country (I think), then he needs a lawn tractor. Now he wants a pickup. Next thing you know he will have 80 junk cars in his back yard.
Sent from my iPhone On Sep 17, 2013, at 12:49 PM, Gary Hurst <jabbahur...@gmail.com> wrote: > i'd agree with curt here. the love of diesel is nice and all but diesel > isn't always an answer > > but the reality is jaime just wants another toy. for as often as he needs > to use a truck, he can just rent one and be WAY ahead in overall costs > > i used to drive a very nice 94 E420, but the head gasket blew. seems to be > 30 hours of labor so i went back to driving my clapped out 280CE., this > car lacked any sort of creature comforts (the windows didn't even fully > roll up) at all and got about 12mpg. when i wanted to do an overnight or > day trip, i'd go to an enterprise rent a car where i had a deal where i > could show up and take any car left on the lot 10 minutes before closing on > saturday and return it same time monday for 20 bucks plus tax. there were > always big vans and pickups available. sometimes they were all that was > available > > so think about how often you really NEED a pickup truck and how much it > costs to rent vs how much it cots to own full time and i suspect you will > discover that renting is much cheaper than owning > > but renting doen't give you teh fun of playing with a new toy and that is > probably what we have here > > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> He's gonna pay 2-3x for a diesel and it'll have added maintenance costs. >> Its not like he's going to commute with it. For trips to the home center or >> the dump or to retrieve a car a cheap gasser makes more sense than a diesel. >> >> If he was gonna do long road trips sure... >> >> -Curt >> >> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:52:07 -0400 >> From: Michael Canfield <slozuk...@gmail.com> >> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Truck for Jamie >> Message-ID: >> <CALHJ_1A+AceL3Rh-vZYhxkMcVs5VqOg+W3b+=aa-rfpenpu...@mail.gmail.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >> >> Miles are high for a v8 Ford. Not a great deal. Look further south for >> less rust. A 3/4 ton with a diesel will get better mpg and haul way more. >> Early idi models get near 20mpg and have plenty enough power. That truck >> will get around 12. >> >> Older Chevy diesels, 6.2 etc., get great mpg and last forever. Newer >> Diesels, such as my Powerstroke(with exception to the Cummins), get worse >> mpg at around 15 or so average but with 450 ft-lbs of torque, who cares? >> >> Mike >> On Sep 17, 2013 11:23 AM, "Craig" <diese...@pisquared.net> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 08:13:23 -0700 (PDT) Curt Raymond >>> <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>> >>>> http://www.frankcoffeyauto.com/1994_Ford_Ford_Milford_NH_174894153.veh >>> >>> Looks good, and the price is right. Google maps says it's 285 miles from >>> Trenton, NJ, 4 hours 52 minutes. Sounds like road trip time. >>> >>> >>> Craig >> _______________________________________ >> http://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 > > > > -- > *reliable vendor of superior parts for mercedes and other european cars > > * > *www.BuyEUROparts.com* > _______________________________________ > http://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 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
