I am catching up on a bunch of digests, so this has probably already been addressed completely. I get that you feel crappy that this is questioning your integrity and you were hoping that the buyer would be pleased with the car. BUT, his complaints seem manufactured and exaggerated. I would tell him the proper way to start it and he drove it looked it over, you obviously didn't misrepresent anything and he is buying a VERY old car that he could have had inspected.
Don Snook -----Original Message----- From: Jaime Kopchinski [mailto:jaime...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2015 7:33 AM To: mercedes Mailing List Subject: [MBZ] 300D So the guy that bought my 300D seems to have a bad case of buyers remorse and unrealistic expectations. I should have known, when he started asking questions after we made an agreement. I actually thought about calling it off, but I decided not to since he saw the car in person, drove it, and had mailed a deposit. Anyway, he's claiming that it starts poorly in cold weather and has low compression... as low as 200psi warm. I think I started him on his road to suspicion when I explained to him that the car has a block heater. I told him I've never used it, but if he has the time and the temperatures are below 20, its a good idea to use it as its much easier on the engine when starting. I explained this in a "thats what its there for" way, but I think he interpreted it as "theres a problem and this is the bandaid" I always let these cars glow about 5 seconds after the light goes off, press the accelerator down a bit like it says in the manual, and crank. This car always started easily, and ran smoothly immediately. One of the better ones I've had, actually. Conventional oil, 15F... it doesn't get much better with these cars. I'm at a loss. I can deal with the guy having issues inside his own head, but when it comes down to suggesting I've misrepresented the car, I take great offense. Jaime -- Jaime Kopchinski http://www.jaimekop.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 All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
