Giaimo michaelangel...@gmail.com
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 2:35 PM
To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: [MBZ] Vandalism at local dealer..
Went to my paint shop yesterday to check on my car.Prep work done,
should be going into the paint booth in a day or so for BC/CC paint.
Coming
along
Went to my paint shop yesterday to check on my car.Prep work done,
should be going into the paint booth in a day or so for BC/CC paint. Coming
along fine...
Interestingly, there were two late model S-Class cars (S550's ?) in for work
from my local dealer. Seems like someone needed some
And maybe the st--, uh, dealer, had PO'd him about something at some time,
too, including cost of head lamp assemblies.
Wilton
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From: Angelo Giaimo michaelangel...@gmail.com
To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 2:35 PM
Subject: [MBZ
the trunk lock, but apparently never got it open.
I'm not sure how I'm going to get it open now. Now you know why I immediately
thought of gunplay when mbz vandalism came up in discussion here.
Jim Cathey wrote:
BTDT, way more than I ought. I'm my own vandal, at least so far
as Unimog taillight lenses go! The gap-filling kind works well for
this. Proceed with care, and make sure you consider the _next_
pieces to go together before gluing one on, you don't want to get
to the
JC Whitney sells a kit that will make it look like the real thing. It has
the diamond patterns plus yellow and red tape. This made me remember that I
repaired one and never followed up with a replacement.
Harry Watkins
Newton, MS
86 SDL Silver
85 300D Euro
86 SDL Gold
81 240D manual trans
Mitch Haley wrote:
That's probably the source of the 1 hole my 190Dt recently grew in the
windshield. They also punched the trunk lock, but apparently never got it
open.
I'm not sure how I'm going to get it open now.
I take it this car doesn't have central locking?
A trick on some VWs is to
Zeitgeist wrote:
Way back, I Earl Scheib-ed a '69 VW Squareback, and sure enough, one week
later it got egged. Peeled that cheap-ass paint clean off, like it never
was there in the first place. People are weird.
I had a '95 Ford Police Interceptor egged one night while it was parked
on
David shared:
I had a '95 Ford Police Interceptor egged one night while it was parked
on the street. I have no idea why. Maybe someone thought they were
sticking it to The Man.
Maybe it was just herd of chickens flying over and they became scared by
something
Bob Rentfro
A trick on some VWs is to remove the rear seatback, then use a long
string of socket extensions to remove the latch striker bolts. I don't
think the Mercedes latch striker can be removed that way, though.
There's a tiny little thing I like to call the fuel tank that's
in the way, besides the
Have you considered Goop instead of CA glue?
PMMA (poly-methyl-methacrylate, my materials science prof's
favorite plastic) is one of the things that CA glue works _very_
well on. Perhaps because they're both acrylics? And it makes
less of a mess to clean up.
-- Jim
Jim Cathey wrote:
There's a tiny little thing I like to call the fuel tank that's
in the way, besides the solid rear wall of the cabin. It ain't built
that way anyhow.
Hmm, good point. I was thinking there was an area above the fuel tank
that passed all the way through, but I was thinking
David Brodbeck wrote:
I take it this car doesn't have central locking?
I'm not sure. They did something inside the car, all the
lock buttons feel disconnected and the door panels are loose.
The trunk lock button has fallen into the trunk. I had disconnected
the battery and emptied the vac
David Brodbeck wrote:
I had a '95 Ford Police Interceptor egged one night while it was parked
on the street. I have no idea why. Maybe someone thought they were
sticking it to The Man.
A friend had his Horizon egged in front of his house that way.
I just think they egged it because it was
I now think all the messing with the door panels was a
fairly knowledgeable attempt to get into the trunk.
Perhaps these jerks were just in training so that they know
how to do maximal damage in minimal time at the U-Pull?
-- Jim
I drove my 1969 911E down to Houston to visit some friend once. Parked
it right out front of an upscale bar. Came back out an hour later and
some SOB had kicked in the passenger side door. So much for straight
body, original paint...
No offence to those of you in the big H, but that town sucks!
My most recent vandalism was when somebody broke a hole (with a hammer?) in
the RR taillight on the 1983 300TD wagon. If anybody has a spare, please
let me know.
On 8/24/06, Gary Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I drove my 1969 911E down to Houston to visit some friend once. Parked
it
My most recent vandalism was when somebody broke a hole (with a
hammer?) in
the RR taillight on the 1983 300TD wagon. If anybody has a spare,
please
let me know.
If you have the pieces, they can be glued back with superglue to
serve until you find a better-looking replacement.
-- Jim
Never thought of that - thanks - I'll look.
On 8/24/06, Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My most recent vandalism was when somebody broke a hole (with a
hammer?) in
the RR taillight on the 1983 300TD wagon. If anybody has a spare,
please
let me know.
If you have the pieces, they can
List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:00 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Vandalism
I drove my 1969 911E down to Houston to visit some friend once. Parked
it right out front of an upscale bar. Came back out an hour later and
some SOB had kicked in the passenger side door. So much
Back when I was a teenager (~'82), my mom and stepdad leveraged themselves
deeper into debt by buying a used, but still beautiful black '76 911S. They
were always bitching about noticing spit on the windshield or garbage thrown
at or near the car. People are weird.
Way back, I Earl Scheib-ed a
Never thought of that - thanks - I'll look.
If you have the pieces, they can be glued back with superglue to
serve until you find a better-looking replacement.
BTDT, way more than I ought. I'm my own vandal, at least so far
as Unimog taillight lenses go! The gap-filling kind works well for
and piece so it couldn't fall through easily
while I was gluing it.
That lasted the year I had the car. It was hard to notice unless you knew it
was there.
-Curt
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:36:16 -0700
From: Jim Cathey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Vandalism
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Actually the problem my dad has is if he keeps the car clean people will
key
it. He says he has had it keyed 3-4 times in the month or two he has owned
it. But if it is dirty then people do not key it.
Where does he park the thing? Neither of my cars is EVER dirty and I've only
had one keying
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