[MBZ] Hurricane

2015-09-30 Thread archer75--- via Mercedes
MIAMI, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Hurricane Joaquin strengthened Wednesday morning as it moved toward the central Bahamas, where weather officials have issued hurricane warnings and forecast more than a foot of rainsnip

Re: [MBZ] Hurricane

2015-09-30 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
Does all that hot air in the capital draw it in? RB On 30/09/2015 1:05 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: I wonder whether the dang thang is headed up the coast due N, on a collision course with Our Nation's Capital. On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 1:31 PM, archer75--- via Mercedes <

Re: [MBZ] Hurricane

2015-09-30 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
It may soak Charleston as well depending on the path... On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Yes Randy, global warming is causing all these terrible storms, and the > center of global warming is WDC. Self-fulfilling prophecy? > > (sorry,

Re: [MBZ] Hurricane

2015-09-30 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
I wonder whether the dang thang is headed up the coast due N, on a collision course with Our Nation's Capital. On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 1:31 PM, archer75--- via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > MIAMI, Sept. 30 (UPI) -- Hurricane Joaquin strengthened Wednesday morning > as it moved

Re: [MBZ] Should I Check This Out?

2015-09-30 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
If the guy really has serious medical issues I would not try to bargain down another $300. The price is already insanely low. On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Yes > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Sep 30, 2015, at 9:49 AM, Dan

Re: [MBZ] Anybody there?

2015-09-30 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
I was just a minute ago, but left. On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 1:07 PM, M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > So calm yourself > And stop that fuss > There ain't nobody here but us! > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Fred Moir via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com>

Re: [MBZ] some punks

2015-09-30 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Was this in ATL? On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Rick Hawkins Java via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > i didn't call the cops because no one needed to get shot offer broken glass > > neither me not the perps if they could even be identified > > > > thanks, > > xx rick > Rick Hawkins

Re: [MBZ] Hurricane

2015-09-30 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
Yes Randy, global warming is causing all these terrible storms, and the center of global warming is WDC. Self-fulfilling prophecy? (sorry, could not resist a political jab, I do hope Andrew and the rest of them up there don't get any damage from this one). - Max Charleston SC On

Re: [MBZ] some punks

2015-09-30 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
Rick, Police keep track of crime location and frequency, not so they can shoot 'em but catch 'em and jail 'em (at least that's how it is supposed to go, you probably know your local cops). I'd report it today, so that if the police need to increase patrols in your area, they have the information

Re: [MBZ] Should I Check This Out?

2015-09-30 Thread Dwight Giles via Mercedes
Go for it. He needs cash today. On Sep 30, 2015 10:50 AM, "Dan Penoff via Mercedes" wrote: > I’m thinking I should show up with $1500 cash and if it’s decent offer it > on the spot. > > http://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/cto/5244394945.html > > He’s been advertising this for

Re: [MBZ] Subject: Grease off concrete

2015-09-30 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Bummer. On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I tried that "Awesome" cleaner once, used up the whole bottle, and it > barely made a dent in the oil stains on my driveway. Maybe a difference in > concrete? > > > > - > Max >

[MBZ] Subject: Grease off concrete

2015-09-30 Thread Bob via Mercedes
Kaleb. I used "Awesome" a butyl-based cleaner that is a great degreaser. I buy it at the dollar store-"Dollar Tree" here.. It cleans my diesel drippings on my concrete brick driveway from my 240d [Benz content]. Spray it on -walk away.spray again ,let sit & later hose

Re: [MBZ] Subject: Grease off concrete

2015-09-30 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
I tried that "Awesome" cleaner once, used up the whole bottle, and it barely made a dent in the oil stains on my driveway. Maybe a difference in concrete? - Max Charleston SC ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

Re: [MBZ] some punks

2015-09-30 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
That episode makes a great case for on board camera, mounted so it's not easily seen. Nothing quite like an "instant replay" that shows the perps face and actions.. Could easily be triggered by motion sensor or your car alarm. Just a thought.. your money, your car, your insurance bill. On Wed,

Re: [MBZ] Should I Look at This?

2015-09-30 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Only buy a car that "runs well" (not "good") On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > http://tampa.craigslist.org/hil/cto/5229452636.html > > It’s been on CL for a couple of weeks now and he’s lowered the price. > It’s got the usual rust in the

Re: [MBZ] Hurricane

2015-09-30 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
OK - mind if I move in with you then? On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > We can only hope so! > > That is one way to shut down the goobermnt, since vain-er has no spine to > not only shut it down, but pass a bill so that those sent on a

Re: [MBZ] Subject: Grease off concrete

2015-09-30 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
I LOVE the Dollar Tree store - especially the cleaning products (including personal soap). Thanks for the heads up about "Awesome". I will give it a try. On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Bob via Mercedes wrote: > Kaleb. I used "Awesome" a butyl-based cleaner

Re: [MBZ] watch out VW dizzelers

2015-09-30 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
How does injecting DEF in the exhaust effect mileage? The effort to do the injection? IIRC, I get the same mileage as you in the 2012 Passat. I didn't care one way or the other about "green" - I bought it because it was the only Diesel brand I could afford. I have an irrational desire to drive

Re: [MBZ] [Norton AntiSpam] This guy is smoking crack

2015-09-30 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
> On September 29, 2015 at 9:32 PM Robert Massmann via Mercedes > wrote: > > > I like this one, but too far away. But would be a very nice change from what > I currently have! > > http://www.ebay.com/itm/191701774291 $9k with 200k on the odometer?

Re: [MBZ] Should I Look at This?

2015-09-30 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes
Are you flipping out and buying everything in sight? Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 30, 2015, at 3:08 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes > wrote: > > http://tampa.craigslist.org/hil/cto/5229452636.html > > It’s been on CL for a couple of weeks now and he’s lowered the price.

Re: [MBZ] some punks

2015-09-30 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
> On September 30, 2015 at 1:06 PM "M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes" > wrote: > > > Well, that's what a .45ACP with hollowpoints is for. > > Now you know better. :) In Texas you can use deadly force to protect property. Don't know of anyplace else that works though.

Re: [MBZ] Fw: Odd MB wheel angle

2015-09-30 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
Thank you. I haven't seen it. Point confirmed. 'Spose there's something in the setup I need to re-accomplish? Wilton - Original Message - From: "G Mann via Mercedes" To: "Mercedes Discussion List" Cc: "G Mann" Sent:

[MBZ] Odd MB wheel angle

2015-09-30 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
On return from Durham VA Med Center last Mon, we stopped for late lunch at Cracker Barrel. As SWMBO was pulling to handicap parking space, I asked her to please move to the right in the wide space - "Don't get so close to the car on the left and leave all of that open space on the right beside

Re: [MBZ] Odd MB wheel angle

2015-09-30 Thread M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes
She meant well, bless her little pointy head. :D On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 5:54 PM, WILTON via Mercedes wrote: > On return from Durham VA Med Center last Mon, we stopped for late lunch at > Cracker Barrel. As SWMBO was pulling to handicap parking space, I asked > her to

Re: [MBZ] some punks

2015-09-30 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
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Re: [MBZ] Should I Look at This?

2015-09-30 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
I may go look at it on Sunday. For $1000 if it’s decent I might do it for a project. I do find it a little curious that all this work has been done to it yet it has no vacuum based on the description. I’m thinking the vacuum pump has bit it. Just one more thing to use as leverage. Dan >

[MBZ] Fw: Odd MB wheel angle

2015-09-30 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
Anybody else on the list receive the post below? My posts have been returning to me via the list almost immedately after sending them, but I've sent 3 or 4 today and have not seen 'em on the list. Anybody else seen 'em? Please reply via the list and directly to my address.' I don't know of

Re: [MBZ] Should I Look at This?

2015-09-30 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
I can't think of anything else that would cause that. You must be right On Sep 30, 2015 6:21 PM, "Dan Penoff via Mercedes" wrote: > I may go look at it on Sunday. For $1000 if it’s decent I might do it for > a project. > > I do find it a little curious that all this work

[MBZ] ?

2015-09-30 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
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Re: [MBZ] Fw: Odd MB wheel angle

2015-09-30 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
Yes. ‎ Rick  Sent from my BlackBerry Z10   Original Message   From: WILTON via Mercedes Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 6:56 PM To: mercedes list Reply To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: WILTON Subject: [MBZ] Fw: Odd MB wheel angle Anybody else on the list receive the post below?  

Re: [MBZ] Fw: Odd MB wheel angle

2015-09-30 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
Wilton, I'm getting your posts in good order. Seems to be working well on my end. Says you sent it 3 minutes ago.. Grant.. On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 4:56 PM, WILTON via Mercedes wrote: > Anybody else on the list receive the post below? My posts have been > returning to

Re: [MBZ] Fw: Odd MB wheel angle

2015-09-30 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
Thanks, Rick, I got yours, and I get others, but not mine. What the etc.? Wilton - Original Message - From: "Rick Knoble via Mercedes" To: "WILTON via Mercedes" Cc: "Rick Knoble" Sent: Wednesday, September 30,

[MBZ] A SDL for Dan

2015-09-30 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes
It only had 304k on it 10 years ago. 87 mercedes 300sdl REDUCED !!! http://austin.craigslist.org/cto/5235366124.html via cPro Craigslist App iOS: http://tinyurl.com/CL-iDevice Android: http://tinyurl.com/CL-Android Sent from my iPhone ___

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2015-09-30 Thread Wilton Strickland via Mercedes
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Re: [MBZ] watch out VW dizzelers uh oh!

2015-09-30 Thread Curly McLain via Mercedes
Now 'dolfie found out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKef1JFpiCA ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

Re: [MBZ] A SDL for Dan

2015-09-30 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
> On September 30, 2015 at 9:07 PM "Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes" > wrote: > > > > It only had 304k on it 10 years ago. > > 87 mercedes 300sdl REDUCED !!! > http://austin.craigslist.org/cto/5235366124.html So maybe it has 590,000 on it now?

Re: [MBZ] some punks

2015-09-30 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
Curt sez: >Guy tried that at my parents>house one >night up until dad stepped onto the porch with a shotgun and >racked the slide closed.  There is nothing else in the world that sounds like that. Nothing. ‎ Rick

[MBZ] some punks

2015-09-30 Thread Rick Hawkins Java via Mercedes
i didn't call the cops because no one needed to get shot offer broken glass neither me not the perps if they could even be identified thanks, xx rick Rick Hawkins ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To

[MBZ] Anybody there?

2015-09-30 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
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[MBZ] Should I Check This Out?

2015-09-30 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
I’m thinking I should show up with $1500 cash and if it’s decent offer it on the spot. http://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/cto/5244394945.html He’s been advertising this for some time at a much higher price. I tried to get ahold of him a while back and never got a response. Hmm. Dan

[MBZ] watch out VW dizzelers

2015-09-30 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
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Re: [MBZ] Anybody there?

2015-09-30 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes
No Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 30, 2015, at 9:31 AM, WILTON via Mercedes > wrote: > > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go

Re: [MBZ] Should I Check This Out?

2015-09-30 Thread Dimitri via Mercedes
Hell yes! Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 30, 2015, at 10:49 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes > wrote: > > I’m thinking I should show up with $1500 cash and if it’s decent offer it on > the spot. > > http://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/cto/5244394945.html > > He’s been

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2015-09-30 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
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Re: [MBZ] Anybody there?

2015-09-30 Thread Fred Moir via Mercedes
Nobody here, just us chickens. Fred From: Mercedes on behalf of WILTON via Mercedes Sent: 30 September 2015 14:31 To: mercedes list Cc: WILTON Subject: [MBZ] Anybody there?

[MBZ] some punks

2015-09-30 Thread Rick Hawkins Java via Mercedes
just came down the street and were banging on cars and knocking trash cans over i looked out and watched them bust the driver's window of my benz i yelled at them and chased them off down the street i think it was white kids maybe even a guy and a girl i was going to call the cops but couldn't

[MBZ] not so cheap dissel

2015-09-30 Thread Curly McLain via Mercedes
Well, the cheap 87 300D will not be so cheap. They drove it so long the trans flange and the driveshaft are all beat up. They ran it on fryer waste, so who knows how much damage that did? The battery is toast.Stinks like a stale fish fry inside, I am told. It is so sorry it had to be

Re: [MBZ] not so cheap dissel

2015-09-30 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
Start shopping for a new IP and injectors... - Max Charleston SC On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Curly McLain via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Well, the cheap 87 300D will not be so cheap. > > They drove it so long the trans flange and the driveshaft are all beat >

Re: [MBZ] watch out VW dizzelers

2015-09-30 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
Just finished a podcast interview with author of a recent book on "green" companies, and by chance the lady owns a VW. Gasser, not diesel. Lady is "green" herself through and through, and was adamant that she was going to sell her VW and get a Tesla as soon as she could afford one. From her

Re: [MBZ] watch out VW dizzelers

2015-09-30 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
I bought VW diesels because they're fun to drive an economical. I don't think I'd buy one newer than 2005 because of the DEF/DPF (diesel exhaust fluid/diesel particulate filter) both of which cost mileage. I suspect but of course can't prove that all manufacturers cheat their emissions or fuel

Re: [MBZ] Anybody there?

2015-09-30 Thread Curly McLain via Mercedes
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Re: [MBZ] Should I Check This Out?

2015-09-30 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes
Yes Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 30, 2015, at 9:49 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes > wrote: > > I’m thinking I should show up with $1500 cash and if it’s decent offer it on > the spot. > > http://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/cto/5244394945.html > > He’s been advertising this

Re: [MBZ] some punks

2015-09-30 Thread M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes
Well, that's what a .45ACP with hollowpoints is for. Now you know better. :) On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Rick Hawkins Java via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > just came down the street and were banging on cars and knocking trash cans > over > > i looked out and watched them

Re: [MBZ] Anybody there?

2015-09-30 Thread M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes
So calm yourself And stop that fuss There ain't nobody here but us! On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Fred Moir via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Nobody here, just us chickens. > Fred > > > From: Mercedes on

Re: [MBZ] some punks

2015-09-30 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Guy tried that at my parents house one night up until dad stepped onto the porch with a shotgun and racked the slide closed. Kid piddled himself and laid right down on the ground with his hands behind his head. Dad never said a word, just kept watch while my mother called the police. When the

Re: [MBZ] some punks

2015-09-30 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
I disagree, for home protection a .410 shotgun with buckshot is way more likely to hit what you're pointing at but doesn't have so much shot you get a lot of collateral damage. Inside the house something like #6 shot is probably even mo-betta for preventing collateral damage while still putting