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2018-07-08 Thread clay monroe via Mercedes
I have that!!! I recharged the R12 ish in the SDL, gave it a fresh accumulator and was getting a direct portal to Antarctica for a week or so. Then the system would cycle from an opening to Mt. Everest for long enough to get really cold, and then a portal to Hell opens and blows face melting

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2018-07-07 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 20:42:38 -0400 Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote: > Cuts out sometimes on acceleration which I think it’s supposed to do > but then it also just randomly cuts out. There is some sort of > diagnostic process using the HVAC control display that might indicate > the rpm issue,

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2018-07-07 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
Yeah I think it is the rpm sensor as I think you? mentioned? I have heard a bit of squeaking and a kind of metallic rattling on acceleration. I ordered a new serpentine belt should be here tomorrow. I’ll see if that helps and will check all the rotating bits too while I’m changing it. When it

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2018-07-07 Thread Dwight Giles via Mercedes
W210's are,very rust prone. Dwight Giles Jr 1982 300CD 2005 E320 4matic (w211) Wickford RI On Jul 7, 2018 2:45 PM, "Craig via Mercedes" wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 07:32:13 + Rick Knoble via Mercedes > wrote: > > > Ugh. I am truly sorry for your misadventures. > > Thank you. > > > > On

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2018-07-07 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
> On July 7, 2018 at 2:45 PM Craig via Mercedes wrote: > > I know one of the W210 and W211 is very rust-prone and bad in other ways, > but I forget which one is which. 210 said to be rust prone. My 1999 is getting there, but it hasn't had an easy life and it has 260,000 miles in the rust

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2018-07-07 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 09:31:18 -0400 Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes wrote: > Come back and get this $500E300D. The AC works well when it works. I take it, then, there are periods when the A/C does not work. Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list

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2018-07-07 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes
I have not had any charging or glow plug issues with this car. The description of the problem indicated alternator not charging which I could have swapped the regulator out in about 5 minutes or the entire alternator in 15-20. I did that once I got the car home to discover it was actually the

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2018-07-07 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 08:47:46 -0400 Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote: > Craig: Truly an epic adventure, really enjoyed finally meeting you and > Shirley! Thanks so much for making the trip "down south". Maybe not > such a great "vacation" but you've got a lot of good memories to go > with the

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2018-07-07 Thread Craig via Mercedes
On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 07:32:13 + Rick Knoble via Mercedes wrote: > Ugh. I am truly sorry for your misadventures. Thank you. > On purely anecdotal evidence, in your shoes, I would purchase a clean > lower milage W210. The folks on this list that drive them swear by them > (instead of AT them,

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2018-07-07 Thread Mitch Haley via Mercedes
> On July 7, 2018 at 9:09 AM "Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes" > wrote: > > > That would be the one. First time I can say I have had a glow plug relay > stick in the on position but have heard of it happening before Oh, so we're not sure if the alternator wasn't charging or if the GP

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2018-07-07 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes
Yep Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 7, 2018, at 8:24 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes > wrote: > > Did the AC start working correctly after fixing the GP relay? > > - > Max > Charleston SC > > On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 9:09 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com>

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2018-07-07 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
Come back and get this $500E300D. The AC works well when it works. --R Sent from iPhone > On Jul 7, 2018, at 12:47 AM, Craig via Mercedes wrote: > > After our Goldsboro get-together, Shirley and I continued north through > North Carolina, visited friends from our church in Los Alamos who had

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2018-07-07 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
Did the AC start working correctly after fixing the GP relay? - Max Charleston SC On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 9:09 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > That would be the one. First time I can say I have had a glow plug relay > stick in the on position but

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2018-07-07 Thread Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes
That would be the one. First time I can say I have had a glow plug relay stick in the on position but have heard of it happening before Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 7, 2018, at 7:47 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes > wrote: > > Craig: Truly an epic adventure, really enjoyed finally meeting

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2018-07-07 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
Craig: Truly an epic adventure, really enjoyed finally meeting you and Shirley! Thanks so much for making the trip "down south". Maybe not such a great "vacation" but you've got a lot of good memories to go with the trip I'm sure. You left out the statistics about how many list members you

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2018-07-07 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
Ugh. I am truly sorry for your misadventures.   On purely anecdotal evidence, in your shoes, I would purchase a clean lower milage W210. The folks on this list that drive them swear by them (instead of AT them, or about them). Rick ___ http://www.okiebenz.com

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2018-07-06 Thread Craig via Mercedes
After our Goldsboro get-together, Shirley and I continued north through North Carolina, visited friends from our church in Los Alamos who had moved to Sykesville, Maryland, and wound up in West Shokan, New York. We spent a couple days there talking with the fellow and his wife who run the