[MBZ] Fwd: @@@@ MERCEDES TURBO DIESLE@@@@

2022-01-06 Thread Frederick Moir via Mercedes
Nit mine. -- Forwarded message - From: Frederick Moir Date: Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 9:52 AM Subject: MERCEDES TURBO DIESLE To: Frederick Moir https://providence.craigslist.org/pts/d/ashaway-mercedes-turbo-diesle/7429202458.html Sent from Mail

Re: [MBZ] Looking for My next Mercedes

2022-01-06 Thread Robert Massmann via Mercedes
I found this one about 50 miles from me in Columbus Ohio. Need to see a CARFAX report before I look? https://columbus.craigslist.org/cto/d/columbus-2013-mercedes-benz-ml350/7421132068.html 2004 BMW X3 2002 BMW 525i 1982 Mercedes 300D none running 1985 Mercedes 300CD none running -Original

[MBZ] 2006 Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren 4 puertas,$6,165

2022-01-06 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/605061503920681 -- --FT ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

[MBZ] 1997 Mercedes-Benz unsure,$1,500

2022-01-06 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
1997 Mercedes-Benz Unsure · Coupe · Driven 1,234 miles 1997 I believe Mercedes Benz will start up in Ayden North Carolina [hidden information] call me if you are interested be a great project car https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/605772283822253 -- --FT

Re: [MBZ] Mercedes is selling vaporware

2022-01-06 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
You have to have one of those back bumper/trailer hitch racks with a good sized generator on it so that you can feed your battery. Randy On 06/01/2022 7:57 AM, G Mann via Mercedes wrote: In the real world, cold weather sucks the life out of battery reserves. So, at wind chill minus 30, range

Re: [MBZ] Mercedes is selling vaporware

2022-01-06 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
There are other ways to do these things too. One of the ladies that my wife worked with for years had a recently built house that used passive heat sources. It was super insulated and faced south. The windows were almost all in the south wall and those were large. It had clerestory windows

Re: [MBZ] Looks like a 1932 luxury car, Mercedes . 1982 Ford Mustang Boss 302 Coupe 2D, $33, 500

2022-01-06 Thread M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes
Pimp hat and hookers sold separately. On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 8:59 AM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Gets lots of praise when going down the road. > > https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/506541480652317 > > -- > --FT > ___ >

Re: [MBZ] Looking for My next Mercedes

2022-01-06 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
It's a Blutec, so it has a DPF, I don't know if it's possible to evaluate the condition of those but that would be my concern if everything else checks out. If it got regular long-ish highway trips it probably had adequate opportunity for the "regen" cycles to complete. If it was used mostly

Re: [MBZ] Looking for My next Mercedes

2022-01-06 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Price seems high. If you aren't set on a large SUV, the 250GLK Bluetec is awesome - reliable and highly fuel efficient. It might be adequate in size to suit your needs. They are mfd. in Germany rather than AL, which IMO is a huge plus. On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 1:03 PM Allan Streib via Mercedes

[MBZ] Heartbreaking

2022-01-06 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
https://row52.com/Vehicle/Index/RNDLdqdF8DF3LyLfx8eSkHPlR Rick ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

Re: [MBZ] Estate Sale - 1975 Mercedes-Benz 190 E 2.3 Sedan 4D, $5, 500

2022-01-06 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
Appears to be an early 70's W114 230. Either someone has been swapping bumpers or it is older than the add suggests. He says  it shows 20K miles - so who knows how many miles in actuality. Maybe a nice little 4 cylinder car with a manual transmission but no AC. No photos of the interior.

Re: [MBZ] Mercedes is selling vaporware

2022-01-06 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
During my time as a Congressional Fellow I staffed a hearing on Hot Dry Rock geothermal energy. Has great promise but not yet commercial. https://www1.eere.energy.gov/ba/pba/pdfs/geo_hotdry_rock.pdf On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 12:19 PM Curt Raymond via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I

Re: [MBZ] Looks like a 1932 luxury car, Mercedes . 1982 Ford Mustang Boss 302 Coupe 2D, $33, 500

2022-01-06 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
I disagree. That is borderline tasteful. On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 12:58 PM M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Pimp hat and hookers sold separately. > > On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 8:59 AM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > Gets lots of

Re: [MBZ] Heartbreaking

2022-01-06 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
When I lived up there (Lockport) I think my train into Chicago used to pass that yard in Summit. On Thu, Jan 6, 2022, at 12:53 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes wrote: > https://row52.com/Vehicle/Index/RNDLdqdF8DF3LyLfx8eSkHPlR > > > Rick > ___ >

Re: [MBZ] Mercedes is selling vaporware

2022-01-06 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Whoa, I've been considering it for here and the estimate is $35k although we have a very small house (900sqft) so it'll probably be cheaper. Plus I want to hook it into our existing hydronic setup. I have no interest in hot air... We spend about $1600/yr on oil which isn't getting any cheaper.

Re: [MBZ] Mercedes is selling vaporware

2022-01-06 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
I think our loops were supposed to go down 60 feet or so if I recall correctly. -D On Jan 6, 2022, at 9:21 AM, Curt Raymond wrote:  I don't know how far down we'll have to go for rock, the top couple feet are soft soil anyway... -Curt On Thursday, January 6, 2022, 11:07:14 AM EST, dan

Re: [MBZ] Mercedes is selling vaporware

2022-01-06 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
I expect it depends on how high the ground water is, I've seen some that have 400' drops. I've also seen them talk about horizontal loops 10 feet down but as our frost line is 6 feet I'd imagine we'd want horizontal loops to be deeper than that. -Curt On Thursday, January 6, 2022,

[MBZ] 2008 C350 - 130k miles - $6,500

2022-01-06 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
Seems a little on the high side, but miles aren't bad, decent color, and according to the VIN it has the M272 with the improved balance shaft parts. https://southbend.craigslist.org/cto/d/walkerton-mercedes-benz/7429128356.html "Will show at the Dollar General store"

Re: [MBZ] 2007 GL450 - 126k miles - $5,900

2022-01-06 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
Auction flip? Temp paper plate. No interest in haggling, where’s the fun in that —FT Sent from my iPad > On Jan 5, 2022, at 10:44 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes > wrote: > > Seems a pretty decent price. > >

[MBZ] Looks like a 1932 luxury car, Mercedes . 1982 Ford Mustang Boss 302 Coupe 2D, $33, 500

2022-01-06 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
Gets lots of praise when going down the road. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/506541480652317 -- --FT ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

Re: [MBZ] Looking for My next Mercedes

2022-01-06 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
I can only speak to the 2011 W164 ML diesel.  bought one for my wife at the time, it was a nice car, very entertaining what with a very large torque rating.  She is still driving it as of a few months ago so from that standpoint it seems to have held up OK.  I think I managed to instill in her

Re: [MBZ] Mercedes is selling vaporware

2022-01-06 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
In the real world, cold weather sucks the life out of battery reserves. So, at wind chill minus 30, range would be much less... then, how do you heat the car so you can stand to drive and survive... stuck in a snowbank for a couple days with no recharge [real world that happens] you become a well

[MBZ] Estate Sale - 1975 Mercedes-Benz 190 E 2.3 Sedan 4D,$5,500

2022-01-06 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
Unclear what it is but it looks nice https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1014825999376603 -- --FT ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

Re: [MBZ] Mercedes is selling vaporware

2022-01-06 Thread dan penoff.com via Mercedes
We seriously considered geothermal for the massif we owned in Indiana. This would have been 2010, but for a 4,000 SF two story house the total would have been around $14,000, less Federal and State incentives bringing our out the door cost of around $10,000-$11,000 as I recall. Average monthly

Re: [MBZ] Mercedes is selling vaporware

2022-01-06 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
What was the install cost for your geothermal system? This would work great in the mid-Atlantic but has never really caught on. How much acreage did you need? On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 12:02 AM OK Don via Mercedes wrote: > Dan, I've lived with heat pumps since 1979 - the earlier ones had

[MBZ] Crunched 600SL hulk 1993 Mercedes-Benz SL-Class Roadster 2D, $2, 500

2022-01-06 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1110417719784654 -- --FT ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

[MBZ] When men were real men -- 1921 Benz-Mercedes Rabbit-the-First - Jay Leno’s Garage

2022-01-06 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
Let's put this aircraft engine from a downed plane that I buried in the back yard in some old chassis and see what happens on the race track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqN0P0iqids -- --FT ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

[MBZ] 86 Volvo Wagon erupts into a bidding war

2022-01-06 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
I am speechless. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1986-volvo-240-wagon-5/ ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

Re: [MBZ] Mercedes is selling vaporware

2022-01-06 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
Thorium reactors and upgrade (and hardening) of the US electric grid would be an answer. However, they don't produce byproducts used in nuclear weapons, so there is no interest. The elephant in the room is this. A barrel of oil produces 40-46% gasoline, 25-28% diesel fuel, 10-12% jet A, and

Re: [MBZ] 86 Volvo Wagon erupts into a bidding war

2022-01-06 Thread mitch--- via Mercedes
50kmi Swedish Brick. Those 240s were popular, and almost all gone now, but I didn't expect double low mile 240D money. On 2022-01-06 14:03, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote: I am speechless. https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1986-volvo-240-wagon-5/

Re: [MBZ] Mercedes is selling vaporware

2022-01-06 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
*Electric cars are niche vehicles for the rich based on the myth they don't pollute. Given state of the art of electrical power generation, conversion, and transmission, electric vehicle operation pollutes less (not none) only if the charging power is hydro.* Really? I have a deposit on a

Re: [MBZ] Mercedes is selling vaporware

2022-01-06 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
That breakdown of a barrel of oil is interesting. So how did we arrive at that perfect balance of what oil provides and what we do with it? Did we develop technology to use the oil products available, or did we develop refining techniques to produce the refined product the market wanted? For

Re: [MBZ] 86 Volvo Wagon erupts into a bidding war

2022-01-06 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
One of those was abandoned in the parking lot at a former employer. It was in a primo parking spot or it would have probably sat there a lot longer. As it was, it took some months to have it officially deemed abandoned and towed away. Allan On Thu, Jan 6, 2022, at 2:13 PM, mitch--- via

Re: [MBZ] Mercedes is selling vaporware

2022-01-06 Thread mitch--- via Mercedes
The 'refineries' have ability to make one compound out of another that they didn't have 100 years ago, IIRC it's mostly cracking the heavy stuff down into gasoline fractions. To answer your question, I believe the jet fuel used to go into kerosene lamps and heaters. Mitch. On 2022-01-06

Re: [MBZ] Mercedes is selling vaporware

2022-01-06 Thread Scott Ritchey via Mercedes
Exactly. Electric cars are niche vehicles for the rich based on the myth they don't pollute. Given state of the art of electrical power generation, conversion, and transmission, electric vehicle operation pollutes less (not none) only if the charging power is hydro. And that doesn't account

Re: [MBZ] Mercedes is selling vaporware

2022-01-06 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Jet A is very nearly kerosene which is similar to diesel fuel anyway.Locomotives use bunker fuel, like big ships do.When I was just out of high school I worked land surveying along the railroad between Boston and Portland, Maine. I noticed that the locos stayed running all the time. I asked

Re: [MBZ] Looking for My next Mercedes

2022-01-06 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
Maybe. Sometimes in a photo, shadows and reflections can look like dents -- that said, if you're shopping for 8-10 year old cars it is going to be rare to find one without a ding or scratch somewhere. Good question about the engine cover, maybe removed for the photo but certainly would be a

[MBZ] OT: Honda Clocks Are Stuck 20 Years In The Past And There Isn't A Fix

2022-01-06 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
I fear more and more of this. The car may be mechanically perfect, but will refuse to function because some programmer failed to look beyond his current deadline and now there is an unfixable bug in an embedded software system. At this point, the manufacture probably cannot even recreate the

Re: [MBZ] Mercedes is selling vaporware

2022-01-06 Thread Clay via Mercedes
I seem to recall that Standard Oil needed to find a use for all the left over product after making the main product Kerosene back in the day. IIRC that led to the battle over what would fuel the automobiles of the future where steam and batteries lost to petrol. Clay > On Jan 6, 2022, at

Re: [MBZ] Mercedes is selling vaporware

2022-01-06 Thread Clay via Mercedes
I used to work along the tracks by the Amtrak office. There were a number of trains sitting on side rails chugging away day and night with nobody onboard. Upon occasion one would be sitting and not running. It was entertaining when they tried to light it off. Always a summer event. Massive

Re: [MBZ] Looking for My next Mercedes

2022-01-06 Thread Robert Massmann via Mercedes
When I went back and looked over the photos again, it looked like there might be a ding in the bumper drivers side. I also would be lire with engine compartment missing all its cover? Regards, Bob Massmann Southwestern Ohio -Original Message- From: Allan Streib via Mercedes Sent:

Re: [MBZ] Looking for My next Mercedes

2022-01-06 Thread Robert Massmann via Mercedes
I did seller for CARFAX report since the car had a dealer tag on it. -Original Message- From: Allan Streib via Mercedes Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2022 5:28 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List Cc: Allan Streib Subject: Re: [MBZ] Looking for My next Mercedes Maybe. Sometimes in a photo,

[MBZ] This seriously sold in less than a day for this crack price?

2022-01-06 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
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[MBZ] I am listing this for a friend - 2006 C280 - $6,900

2022-01-06 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
The friend seems quite optimistic on the asking price. https://stlouis.craigslist.org/cto/d/de-soto-2006-mercedes-benz-280/7429501361.html I am pretty sure these can have balance shaft issues also. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives

Re: [MBZ] Mercedes is selling vaporware

2022-01-06 Thread Clay via Mercedes
There is one shipper in AK that retrofit their fleet with massive LNG tanks. They shuttle between WA and AK, as well as head out to HI in these boats. It is the Green thing to do. I wonder if they could swap over to H fuel at a later date. Euro rail is electric. Not a small enough area to

Re: [MBZ] Mercedes is selling vaporware

2022-01-06 Thread Scott Ritchey via Mercedes
It isn't a fixed ratio. After initial fractional distillation, the heavier distillates can be converted (commonly by hydrocracking) to produce more of the lighter distillates. The process needs to be adjusted for the various types of incoming crude (e.g. light, heavy, sweet, sour).

Re: [MBZ] Mercedes is selling vaporware

2022-01-06 Thread Scott Ritchey via Mercedes
Pure political genius. Mortgage the yet unborn. They can't complain from the womb and the current crop of politicians will be gone before they can vote. -Original Message- From: Mercedes On Behalf Of Clay via Mercedes Sent: Thursday, January 6, 2022 7:45 PM To: Mercedes Discussion List

[MBZ] At least clean your crap out before trying to sell it

2022-01-06 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
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Re: [MBZ] At least clean your crap out before trying to sell it

2022-01-06 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
Might not be a bad deal actually Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 6, 2022, at 9:44 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes > wrote: > > Seats look good > > --FT > Sent from iFōn > >> On Jan 6, 2022, at 10:41 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes >> wrote: >> >>

Re: [MBZ] At least clean your crap out before trying to sell it

2022-01-06 Thread Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes
Seats look good --FT Sent from iFōn > On Jan 6, 2022, at 10:41 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes > wrote: > > https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/2035348316645412/ > > > Sent from my iPhone > > ___ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list