why I carry a fire extinguisher in the 300SD...prolly should throw one in the TD too. Chris
Mitch Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Richard Murdoch wrote: > Not quite impossible. A friend had his 85 300D catch fire while he was on > the > highway. My mail carrier stopped in my driveway and told me she was having brake trouble. I noticed that the trouble with her Taurus at that moment in time was the flames behind the right front wheel. I ran back in the house for an extinguisher, one quick blast put it out. _______________________________________ http://www.striplin.net For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net Christopher McCann, Squier Park, Kansas City, Missouri -2005 Blue Point Siamese, "Rose" -1992 Volkswagen Golf, diesel, 185K km, "Nanook" -1987 300TD, 151K, "Rotkäppchen" -1985 300SD, 211K, "Wulf" -1976 240D, ?K, "AKP-Wagen" (Alternativen Kraftstoffs Prüfenlastwagen) -1972 Jacobsen 21" Turbo Vent -1971 Case 222 Hydrive, 12HP Kohler, 38" deck, Snowcaster, "One Banger" --------------------------------- Bring words and photos together (easily) with PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jan 26 19:03:08 2006 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.194]) by server5.arterytc5.net with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F2COi-0003d9-05 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:03:08 +0000 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i6so461861wra for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:03:05 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=bex79kl5PepA6bBseXjealepYxVPjJmcoyLZOHR2bmW8E22/pXaMPYwrRVfHI/hT0NX3x118rDPTGieI+EoNSdeLgKIuGDo4FkfoDjwg4Osfufj9SUh7/LIJAMcsEeZwTbIoeUCapt9paisqjVNXoA0HiRrLojq8jMS2RJrw4YI= Received: by 10.65.160.6 with SMTP id m6mr1665810qbo; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:03:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.133.11 with HTTP; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:03:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:03:04 -0500 From: ned kleinhenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Mercedes Diesel List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.6 Subject: Re: [MBZ] Headlight wiper question X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.6 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mercedes Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Id: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes_striplin.net.striplin.net> List-Unsubscribe: <http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: <http://striplin.net/pipermail/mercedes_striplin.net> List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <http://striplin.net/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_striplin.net>, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:03:08 -0000 Someone asked if the headlight wipers make any difference. I have one 124 with wipers and another 124 without. The wipers make a very noticable difference when they clean winter salt fro= m the headlights. Ned Kleinhenz