[MBZ] Are all hood pads made equal?

2021-06-05 Thread Euan Kennedy via Mercedes
Greetings from the Southern Colonies It’s time to replace the hood pad on my W123 300TD wagon. The original has done 233K miles. Not bad I suppose, but it has now sagged over the air-filter canister. The prospect of a fire in the engine-bay is uninviting. Can you experts give me a steer on

[MBZ] Hey... We’re all upside down!

2020-05-16 Thread Euan Kennedy via Mercedes
LOL, no, our tyres are just as good as yours. This north is up and south is down thing is just a mental construct. It’s kinda handy to get our puny human brains organised around viewing the planet that way. Otherwise we’re all clinging to a round rock floating in a universe which doesn’t have

Re: [MBZ] Sticking my neck out - an Antipodean perspective

2020-05-15 Thread Euan Kennedy via Mercedes
Hi all, from the Southern Colonies I have always treated this mailing list as yours. Thus I have no right to object to its content. And if I do, then I can simply suspend my subscription. As it turns out, I have often done that since signing up more than two decades ago. My chief interest

[MBZ] Air filters - OEM or others?

2020-03-15 Thread Euan Kennedy via Mercedes
Thanks for the assurance and advice about my oily air filter canister. A new OEM filter costs $NZ85.00 at this end of the world. Yikes! Do I stay with the stock filter or fit a quality filter from another maker? Does it make any difference to performance and fuel efficiency? Which brands do

[MBZ] Oily film in the air filter pan

2020-03-13 Thread Euan Kennedy via Mercedes
Gentlemen, and others Hello again from the Antipodes. It’s been a while. I’m on a mission to get my 300TD engine clattering like new again. Tell me, should I expect to find a film of oil on the floor of my air filter canister? It’s not a pond, only a film. And it’s confined to the inner

[MBZ] Leaking front shocks

2018-06-15 Thread Euan Kennedy via Mercedes
Greetings from the Antipodes It’s nice to be rejoining the community. Great to see familiar names here. One of my 300TD’s front shocks is weeping fluid. This is an automatic fail in our Warrant of Fitness system. So, after 222K miles, I’m picking that the original Bilsteins are due for

[MBZ] Email Clients-Outlook vs Thunderbird

2016-02-06 Thread Euan Kennedy via Mercedes
> Looks as though Mozilla are planning to discontinue support for Thunderbird > and focus solely on Firefox, which was always their core business anyway. > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/01/mozilla_to_kick_thunderbird_out/ >

[MBZ] OT: Slide scanning - Mould on the originals Take 2

2015-12-04 Thread Euan Kennedy via Mercedes
OK, let's try this a third time. AVAST has been messing with my e-mails. I located a long neglected NIKON LS-2000 a while ago but, like you, was confounded by the SCSI interface. After a bit of rummaging, I found to my astonishment that I had acquired somewhere along the line in my legacy Mac

Re: [MBZ] OT: 34mm Negative Scanner - Mould on the originals

2015-12-04 Thread Euan Kennedy via Mercedes
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Re: [MBZ] OT: 34mm Negative Scanner - Digital ICE Rocks

2015-12-03 Thread Euan Kennedy via Mercedes
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[MBZ] Binding brakes

2014-09-13 Thread Euan Kennedy via Mercedes
A question from the Colonies My 300 TD hasn't had a run for quite a while. Almost six months. Last week, she and I ventured out for a sunny Sunday drive. I found that the front disk brakes were binding. The faster I went of course the more they bound. I limped home at 50 kph which seemed to