Any recommendations for a maker of good batteries these days? Looks like the
Auto Zone Gold battery in my wife's Infiniti has died, just over three years
old, only about 22k miles.
Max Dillon
Charleston SC
'95 E300
'87 300TD
'73 Balboa 20
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Bust.
Fuel consumption is slightly worse, probably about 5% or 10% worse, after
about 1500 miles of driving.
Going to set it back to factory spec using the locking tool, then maybe play
around with only adjusting it a degree or two at a time and then driving for
a few tanks to see if I can get
From what I hear they are like everything else...made cheap with a big
warranty with the company hoping for failures like yours; just out of the
warranty period.
I buy mine from Wally Mart. Supposed to be made by Johnson Control who is
supposed to be good. I have had a few failures in my
Sir, you need a dyno!
Mike
On Dec 7, 2012 9:15 AM, Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net wrote:
Bust.
Fuel consumption is slightly worse, probably about 5% or 10% worse, after
about 1500 miles of driving.
Going to set it back to factory spec using the locking tool, then maybe
play
around
Alex wrote and provided the following link:
Not a Benz, but...
http://portland.craigslist.org/clk/cto/3452336232.html
Was the rear-facing third row a common feature back in the heyday of full-size
American station wagons? I was a kid in the '70s but my parents had a VW
microbus, so this is
Me too. I have always wanted to build an Olds Vista Cruiser with a built
6.2 diesel.
Mike
On Dec 7, 2012 9:36 AM, Donald Snook dsn...@mtsqh.com wrote:
Alex wrote and provided the following link:
Not a Benz, but...
http://portland.craigslist.org/clk/cto/3452336232.html
Was the rear-facing
If I did we would circle one another, sniffing all the while.
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 6, 2012, at 13:09, Michael Canfield slozuk...@gmail.com wrote:
I always get bad mpg anywhere near DC. Any of the *95 routes around
there
are a huge
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Michael Canfield slozuk...@gmail.comwrote:
From what I hear they are like everything else...made cheap with a big
warranty with the company hoping for failures like yours; just out of the
warranty period.
I buy mine from Wally Mart. Supposed to be made by
Randy wrote: Everyone waxes nostalgic about the wonder cars of the 60's but
most of them were nothing but pigs.
Well, there were a lot of really cool cars in the 60's - in terms of styling,
the cool factor, and technological improvements of the time. But, in terms
of reliability, modern cars
Rich wrote: My 500 Eldo gets about.. wait, I never checked, and never really
cared. Premium too.
Oh. Wow. You have an old Eldo? With the 502 engine? What year? Some of
those are very cool cars even if they are land barges.
Donald H. Snook
http://www.mtsqh.com/
I bought a battery from Advance Auto about 2 years ago. I opened the cells
at home and found one cell with no visible electrolyte. The amount of
distilled water it took to fill it up would make it seem that the acid had
been added but not the water.
Advance Auto would not give me a different
I just bought the Wallymart version, same 3 years, came to $125 with tax
and I kept my old battery. Worth more at the salvage yard.
Mike
On Dec 7, 2012 9:56 AM, Tim C bb...@crone.us wrote:
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Michael Canfield slozuk...@gmail.com
wrote:
From what I hear they are
Phillip wrote: It now gets 12 or less - but after almost 400,000 miles without
overhaul, I'm not complaining much.
A word jumped out at me when I read that. Overhaul. There's another thing you
very rarely hear anymore. Overhaul. No one overhauls engines anymore. Of
course, we used to have
Luther wrote: #1 Only use full-throttle when merging onto the interstate. #2
Find traffic-less sections of the interstate, stop on the shoulder, do
full-throttle acceleration up to speed limit (or beyond, if you dare :) ),
repeat. This would reduce carbon buildup on the injectors, rings, and
Max Dillon wrote:
Bust.
Fuel consumption is slightly worse, probably about 5% or 10% worse, after
about 1500 miles of driving.
Retarding the timing always does that, unless you were seriously overadvanced to
begin with.
Advancing gains MPG at the expense of increased peak cylinder
The thing I think is funny is how much horsepower has been gained in
the last 2 decades. We think of these cars from the 70's as being hot
rods, but nearly all of them have less horsepower than a Honda Accord
does now.
The 60's cars were hot, the 70's were not. Marketing was working
Gerry Archer wrote:
I bought a battery from Advance Auto about 2 years ago. I opened the
cells at home and found one cell with no visible electrolyte. The
amount of distilled water it took to fill it up would make it seem that
the acid had been added but not the water.
Advance Auto would
I think I intended to say 70's rather than 60's.
There were some good cars in the 60's. Much better than they were later.
For example, a 68 Chevy Impala is still a nice car in my opinion, but I
don't want a 73 or 74 version.
And yes, I am amazed at what the little 4 cylinders do these days
So, I have to wonder if the reason we are moving ahead is that the
current crop of engineers was growing up in the heyday of the muscle
car? They want the power and we now have better tools to produce it.
And, I would agree that most commuters don't need a whole lot of
horsepower. My 76 115
Donald wrote:
I don't know
what it is, but I like these big old wagons. I really like
the Woody Wagons (the Ford Country Squire of the 70's and
80's), the Olds Custom Cruiser (the Big one, not that stupid
Cierra wagon version), the Big Buick Roadmaster Wagon (of
the 80's and
I have used new batteries from Costco and Interstate, and have found Interstate
to be the better of the two. Typically I don't buy batteries, usually I go down
to the marine shop I used to work at and grab a discharged battery off of the
core rack that has a recent date code, charge it and test
Donald Snook wrote:
Phillip wrote: It now gets 12 or less - but after almost
400,000 miles without overhaul, I'm not complaining much.
A word jumped out at me when I read that. Overhaul. There's
another thing you very rarely hear anymore. Overhaul. No one
overhauls engines anymore.
Mine was Advance as well, not Auto Zone. I charged it for a couple hours,
car started just fine, so I let it idle for ten minutes or so, then shut it
off, and an hour later it had a hard time starting. Advance gave me $52
credit from the warranty toward the purchase of a new, so now it's done.
There's a diesel performance shop in town that uses one, wonder what they
charge?
-Max
-Original Message-
From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Michael
Canfield
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 9:32 AM
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Injection
There's a convertible Eldo for sale on the side of the road not too far from
my house, red with a white top. Looks very sharp, original. Maybe the
local urban boys will pimp it.
-Max
-Original Message-
From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Donald
Snook
I found a couple web forums, but I really prefer email lists.
And I'd sure like a list as good as this one - but for the GM
6.2 L diesel. Any of you know of one?
--Philip
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LOL Good one!
If I did we would circle one another, sniffing all the while.
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 6, 2012, at 13:09, Michael Canfield slozuk...@gmail.com wrote:
I always get bad mpg anywhere near DC. Any of the *95 routes
That thing has been around awhile.
--R
On 12/7/12 1:06 PM, Max Dillon wrote:
There's a convertible Eldo for sale on the side of the road not too far from
my house, red with a white top. Looks very sharp, original. Maybe the
local urban boys will pimp it.
-Max
-Original Message-
Advance has a $25 rebate until 12-31-2012, and the usual $40 off coupons.
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/topic_view.php?catid=18threadid=1231931start=40
https://advanceautoparts.4myrebate.com/Claim/OfferDetailsNewGrid/?Offercd=AAP-10020
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Ain't nothing young about me - I've got an excuse!
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Benz Hogs benz-n-h...@gulseth.net wrote:
Now who is too young to be forgetting things? :-D
Luther KB5QHUForest Park, IL
'98 ML320 Max (159,xxx mi)
On 12/6/2012 9:20 PM, Jim Cathey wrote:
I wasn't
Well you should still have some warranty left on it, take it back
there.
On 12/7/2012 7:48 AM, Max Dillon wrote:
Any recommendations for a maker of good batteries these days? Looks like the
Auto Zone Gold battery in my wife's Infiniti has died, just over three years
old, only about 22k
Just know of forums, no email lists. You got a 6.2?
On 12/7/2012 12:46 PM, Fmiser wrote:
I found a couple web forums, but I really prefer email lists.
And I'd sure like a list as good as this one - but for the GM
6.2 L diesel. Any of you know of one?
--Philip
I came across this article when looking for a cheap homephone solution
that outlined using a device from obihai.com.
$40 for the box, google voice (which is free) for the in and out bound
calls.
http://www.obihai.com/tutorial1.html
Now, who know how long google will let voice be free or
On Dec 7, 2012, at 1:50 PM, Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote:
Advance has a $25 rebate until 12-31-2012, and the usual $40 off coupons.
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/topic_view.php?catid=18threadid=1231931start=40
http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Industry-News/Aston-Martin-sells-38-stake-to-Italians-to-raise-cash/
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Fmiser wrote:
I found a couple web forums, but I really prefer email lists.
And I'd sure like a list as good as this one - but for the GM
6.2 L diesel. Any of you know of one?
Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
Just know of forums, no email lists. You got a 6.2?
Yup. In a 3/4 ton
I got a 6.5 turbo 2500 suburban a while back, don't need it but it was cheap
could not pass it up.
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 7, 2012, at 7:33 PM, Fmiser fmi...@gmail.com wrote:
Fmiser wrote:
I found a couple web forums, but I really prefer email lists.
And I'd sure like a list as good
It was Snook'd:
If you get the 3.5 V6, it has 271 HP. (that surprises me!)
And MB's 3.5 DI V-6 is now at 302hp. Plus a flex-fuel version for 2013 for
the ML GL, not to say you can find E85 anyplace. The newish 3.5 Bluetec
Diesel for the ML GL is at 265hp. Even the little 1.8 turbo
Not mine, etc.
1970 Mercedes 280SE 108 Body 6 Cylinder Fuel Injected $2800
http://chicago.craigslist.org/sox/cto/3431631922.html
Rick
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Meh. Nice, but not as nice as this crackhead ad:
http://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/cto/3410152111.html
Dan
On Dec 7, 2012, at 11:06 PM, Rick Knoble wrote:
Not mine, etc.
1970 Mercedes 280SE 108 Body 6 Cylinder Fuel Injected $2800
http://chicago.craigslist.org/sox/cto/3431631922.html
I would take a 66 GTO or SS396 any day. Who cares about ricers when you
got a V8 that sounds like that, and can spin those Polyglas radials
until they melt?
I followed a cherry red 70 Nova SS into the Costco gas station
yesterday, the plate said ND GAS
--R
On 12/7/12 10:02 AM, Donald
What?! $15K?!
Wilton
- Original Message -
From: Dan Penoff d...@penoff.com
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 11:10 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Somebody Needs This
Meh. Nice, but not as nice as this crackhead ad:
BTW, 'going to Mama Dips for lunch tomorrow. ;)
Wilton
- Original Message -
From: Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2012 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Muscle Car hype was Re: Wagon with third
...I would take a 66 GTO or SS396 any day. Who cares about ricers when
you
got a V8 that sounds like that, and can spin those Polyglas radials
until they melt?..
Everything but brakes.
RLE
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For new and used parts go to
Get some collards. I have been wanting me some collards the last few
days, I made some turnip greens the other night but collards were what I
wanted. There is a whole field full of them up the road, I was tempted
this morning...
--R
On 12/7/12 11:17 PM, WILTON wrote:
BTW, 'going to Mama
12. Endless list of trinkets (radio, switches...)
--R
On 12/7/12 11:10 PM, Dan Penoff wrote:
Meh. Nice, but not as nice as this crackhead ad:
http://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/cto/3410152111.html
Dan
On Dec 7, 2012, at 11:06 PM, Rick Knoble wrote:
Not mine, etc.
1970 Mercedes 280SE 108
Brakes are irrelevant. And overrated.
--R
On 12/7/12 11:22 PM, relng...@aol.com wrote:
...I would take a 66 GTO or SS396 any day. Who cares about ricers when
you
got a V8 that sounds like that, and can spin those Polyglas radials
until they melt?..
Everything but brakes.
RLE
Perhaps Kaleb neds to start another list???
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.netwrote:
I got a 6.5 turbo 2500 suburban a while back, don't need it but it was
cheap could not pass it up.
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 7, 2012, at 7:33 PM, Fmiser fmi...@gmail.com
The best defense is a good offense.
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Rich Thomas
richthomas79td...@constructivity.net wrote:
Brakes are irrelevant. And overrated.
--R
On 12/7/12 11:22 PM, relng...@aol.com wrote:
...I would take a 66 GTO or SS396 any day. Who cares about ricers when
67 Chevelle SS396 for me. My second car was one. It was a beautiful
car. That and my first SDL are the best looking cars I ever had. I
knew it would be worth money someday, but I couldn't afford it. A
battleship gray 190Dc caught my attention, and the SS396 went away.
I would take a 66
Exactly what a goat was designed to do. (and every potty-yak)
The best defense is a good offense.
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Rich Thomas
richthomas79td...@constructivity.net wrote:
Brakes are irrelevant. And overrated.
--R
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OK Don wrote:
Perhaps Kaleb neds to start another list???
Maybe.
I'm learn'n.
Short term plans are:
* install slow, no-swell glow plugs and a manual glow controller
* wire brake controller and trailer electric socket
* repair the dual battery system
* transplant 3rd row seat mounts
*
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