Sehr gut! Jawohl!!
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> On Apr 12, 2024, at 5:01 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
> wrote:
>
> A friend drove me up to Columbia this morning to collect the $2500 09S550
> 4matic, 146kmi. In looking at the specs it is pretty much a base model
> (although the Sonder-klasse is quite well appointed), no real options except
> for 4matic.
>
> Did that no problem although the battery was a little weak but I had taken a
> full complement of road trip support equipment, including a new battery and
> cables. A quick jump and it lit off fine. The AC was even working, it was
> throwing a code for the blower regulator the other day which I think was
> intermittent as the AC worked on my test drive.
>
> Battery was apparently fairly recent, I'll have to keep track of it. Tires
> are BFGs about 1.5yr old, so those are very good.
>
> Car was pretty filthy from sitting for awhile in the pollen and crap that has
> been prevalent here the last few weeks so I found a car wash close by and ran
> it through ($10 for a basic wash, damn prices have really gone up sicne
> whenever I did my last auto wash) and it came out looking pretty good though
> still a bit crusty. Paint needs a full correction and I think it will look
> really nice. No dings anywhere but a bunch of little stone chips here and
> there, I can live with that for now. Looks really nice from 20ft though and
> the interior is in very good condition though filthy with dog hair. Full
> detail in the near future.
>
> Hit a QT and filled up with hi-test and hit the road. The front axles are
> shot and were complaining mightily on turns, and a bit less so straight
> ahead, more so on acceleration, so I was more than somewhat concerned about
> potential failure leaving me DOTSOTR. But what the hell, a journey is when
> you overcome adversity to reach your destination. I kept the speed to 70mph
> or so which I observed was quite comfortable as everyone else was weaving
> around going 72-74 or more and I mostly just cruised along with no drama
> while being passed. I could hear and feel the axles although I did have to
> drop the windows as the AC blower gave up after a little bit. No problem as
> it was a beautiful 74F today, but the noise was a bit annoying. My friend
> who gave me the ride up was following behind so if I had to bail out at least
> only the car would be stranded somewhere. That was comforting.
>
> Made it home fine, no failures, an extremely comfortable big cruiser ride,
> dash was saying 22.1mpg and the gas gauge did not drop as much as I would
> have expected so maybe that was close.
>
> Got home and found a set of RockAuto front axels on the porch along with a
> blower regulator from Amazon, stuff I ordered on Wednesday, so I guess I know
> what the weekend will entail. New break pats arriving tomorrow I think, and
> a headlight xenon bulb ($$!!!) it needs. I think that is all the immediate
> maintenance required. I should probably look at the break roders too, maybe I
> will need a new set of those. I notice the tranny was shifting a bit slowly
> so I will do a fluid/filter change on that soon, engine oil change and
> probably diffs too while I'm at it.
>
> I think this will have been an excellent purchase and I am excited to do some
> road trips in it.
>
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