Re: [MBZ] 1st world problems

[Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes]

That’s usually where I stay. 

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> On May 2, 2018, at 3:37 AM, archer75--- via Mercedes  
> wrote:
> 
> Hampton Inns are my favorite. Clean, competent employees, and a very nice 
> breakfast.
> Gerry
> ~~~
> Curt Raymond wrote:
>> Hilton seems pretty desperate, they email me all the time with offers. Used 
>> to call a lot too trying to get me to buy a timeshare...
>> 
>> Our corporate is Holiday Inn which is mostly what I use, I'm Spire Elite 
>> with them which is the top of their system. I'm silver with Hilton. I mostly 
>> only stay in Hiltons for airport hotels when returning home from LA. The 
>> Hampton Inn in El Segundo CA is really nice. Unfortunately on my next trip 
>> its about $50 more expensive than anything else so its a Holiday Inn 
>> Express...
>> 
>> -Curt
>> 
>> 
>>On Tuesday, May 1, 2018, 7:00:35 PM EDT, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes 
>>  wrote:  
>> 
>> I thought about Marriott, but most everyone else in the company is 
>> Hilton Honors. I have never really stayed at Marriott properties that much.
>> 
>> 
>>> On 5/1/2018 5:55 PM, Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote:
>>> Call customer care, loyalty care, whatever they call themselves and let 
>>> them know you're upset that the small print got you.  Also let them know 
>>> your position as a manager arranging travel for your employees, they can 
>>> probably fix this easy.
>>> 
>>> Marriott is way better, you can probably make lifetime platinum elite 
>>> status in just a few years.
>> 
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Re: [MBZ] 1st world problems

[archer75--- via Mercedes]

Hampton Inns are my favorite. Clean, competent employees, and a very nice 
breakfast.
Gerry
~~~
Curt Raymond wrote:
> Hilton seems pretty desperate, they email me all the time with offers. Used 
> to call a lot too trying to get me to buy a timeshare...
> 
> Our corporate is Holiday Inn which is mostly what I use, I'm Spire Elite with 
> them which is the top of their system. I'm silver with Hilton. I mostly only 
> stay in Hiltons for airport hotels when returning home from LA. The Hampton 
> Inn in El Segundo CA is really nice. Unfortunately on my next trip its about 
> $50 more expensive than anything else so its a Holiday Inn Express...
> 
> -Curt
>  
> 
> On Tuesday, May 1, 2018, 7:00:35 PM EDT, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes 
>  wrote:  
>  
>  I thought about Marriott, but most everyone else in the company is 
> Hilton Honors. I have never really stayed at Marriott properties that much.
> 
> 
> On 5/1/2018 5:55 PM, Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote:
> > Call customer care, loyalty care, whatever they call themselves and let 
> > them know you're upset that the small print got you.  Also let them know 
> > your position as a manager arranging travel for your employees, they can 
> > probably fix this easy.
> >
> > Marriott is way better, you can probably make lifetime platinum elite 
> > status in just a few years.
> 
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Re: [MBZ] 1st world problems

[Curt Raymond via Mercedes]

The nice thing about Holiday Inn now is they've got both Intercontinental and 
Kimpton under their umbrella. Last year I did a week in Miami (well Doral 
but...) at an Intercontinental. It was $20 more a night than a Holiday Inn but 
the customer wanted me to work a Sunday and it was the week before Christmas...
Angie and I used Holiday Inn points to stay at the Intercontinental Chicago a 
couple years ago for our anniversary.

In June we're going to the International Coleman Collectors Convention in 
Huntsville, Alabama. It was half price to fly into Nashville so we're going to 
spend a day/night there at a Kimpton for free on points.
The car for the week is free too, a benefit of corporate travel.

-Curt
 

On Tuesday, May 1, 2018, 9:30:34 PM EDT, Dan Penoff via Mercedes 
 wrote:  
 
 When I was traveling for business on domestic trips I tried to stick with 
Holiday Inn.  The Express places were always pretty nice and Holiday Inn also 
had some spiffs with the airlines that would net you bonus points.  Marriott 
and Hilton always cost more, so they were never an option unless it was a big 
city, like Boston or DC.

Thankfully, I don’t have to worry about such things these days.  I enjoy 
sleeping in the same bed every night.

-D

> On May 1, 2018, at 9:23 PM, Craig via Mercedes  wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 1 May 2018 18:00:10 -0500 "Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes"
>  wrote:
> 
>> I thought about Marriott, but most everyone else in the company is 
>> Hilton Honors. I have never really stayed at Marriott properties that
>> much.
> 
> I have been a member of the Marriott Rewards program for several years,
> mostly because the Lab was sending me on travel.
> 
> I just got an email from them, which redirects to
> 
> https://members.marriott.com/marriottrewards/
> 
> 
> Craig
> 
> 
> 
>> On 5/1/2018 5:55 PM, Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote:
>>> Call customer care, loyalty care, whatever they call themselves and
>>> let them know you're upset that the small print got you.  Also let
>>> them know your position as a manager arranging travel for your
>>> employees, they can probably fix this easy.
>>> 
>>> Marriott is way better, you can probably make lifetime platinum elite
>>> status in just a few years.
> 
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Re: [MBZ] 1st world problems

[Dan Penoff via Mercedes]

When I was traveling for business on domestic trips I tried to stick with 
Holiday Inn.  The Express places were always pretty nice and Holiday Inn also 
had some spiffs with the airlines that would net you bonus points.  Marriott 
and Hilton always cost more, so they were never an option unless it was a big 
city, like Boston or DC.

Thankfully, I don’t have to worry about such things these days.  I enjoy 
sleeping in the same bed every night.

-D

> On May 1, 2018, at 9:23 PM, Craig via Mercedes  wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 1 May 2018 18:00:10 -0500 "Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes"
>  wrote:
> 
>> I thought about Marriott, but most everyone else in the company is 
>> Hilton Honors. I have never really stayed at Marriott properties that
>> much.
> 
> I have been a member of the Marriott Rewards program for several years,
> mostly because the Lab was sending me on travel.
> 
> I just got an email from them, which redirects to
> 
> https://members.marriott.com/marriottrewards/
> 
> 
> Craig
> 
> 
> 
>> On 5/1/2018 5:55 PM, Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote:
>>> Call customer care, loyalty care, whatever they call themselves and
>>> let them know you're upset that the small print got you.  Also let
>>> them know your position as a manager arranging travel for your
>>> employees, they can probably fix this easy.
>>> 
>>> Marriott is way better, you can probably make lifetime platinum elite
>>> status in just a few years.
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Re: [MBZ] 1st world problems

[Craig via Mercedes]

On Tue, 1 May 2018 18:00:10 -0500 "Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes"
 wrote:

> I thought about Marriott, but most everyone else in the company is 
> Hilton Honors. I have never really stayed at Marriott properties that
> much.

I have been a member of the Marriott Rewards program for several years,
mostly because the Lab was sending me on travel.

I just got an email from them, which redirects to

https://members.marriott.com/marriottrewards/


Craig



> On 5/1/2018 5:55 PM, Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote:
> > Call customer care, loyalty care, whatever they call themselves and
> > let them know you're upset that the small print got you.  Also let
> > them know your position as a manager arranging travel for your
> > employees, they can probably fix this easy.
> >
> > Marriott is way better, you can probably make lifetime platinum elite
> > status in just a few years.

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Re: [MBZ] 1st world problems

[Curt Raymond via Mercedes]

Hilton seems pretty desperate, they email me all the time with offers. Used to 
call a lot too trying to get me to buy a timeshare...

Our corporate is Holiday Inn which is mostly what I use, I'm Spire Elite with 
them which is the top of their system. I'm silver with Hilton. I mostly only 
stay in Hiltons for airport hotels when returning home from LA. The Hampton Inn 
in El Segundo CA is really nice. Unfortunately on my next trip its about $50 
more expensive than anything else so its a Holiday Inn Express...

-Curt
 

On Tuesday, May 1, 2018, 7:00:35 PM EDT, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes 
 wrote:  
 
 I thought about Marriott, but most everyone else in the company is 
Hilton Honors. I have never really stayed at Marriott properties that much.


On 5/1/2018 5:55 PM, Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote:
> Call customer care, loyalty care, whatever they call themselves and let them 
> know you're upset that the small print got you.  Also let them know your 
> position as a manager arranging travel for your employees, they can probably 
> fix this easy.
>
> Marriott is way better, you can probably make lifetime platinum elite status 
> in just a few years.


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Re: [MBZ] 1st world problems

[Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes]

I thought about Marriott, but most everyone else in the company is 
Hilton Honors. I have never really stayed at Marriott properties that much.



On 5/1/2018 5:55 PM, Max Dillon via Mercedes wrote:

Call customer care, loyalty care, whatever they call themselves and let them 
know you're upset that the small print got you.  Also let them know your 
position as a manager arranging travel for your employees, they can probably 
fix this easy.

Marriott is way better, you can probably make lifetime platinum elite status in 
just a few years.



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Re: [MBZ] 1st world problems

[Max Dillon via Mercedes]

Call customer care, loyalty care, whatever they call themselves and let them 
know you're upset that the small print got you.  Also let them know your 
position as a manager arranging travel for your employees, they can probably 
fix this easy.

Marriott is way better, you can probably make lifetime platinum elite status in 
just a few years.
-- 
Max Dillon
Charleston SC
'87 300TD
'95 E300

On May 1, 2018 6:33:20 PM EDT, "Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes" 
 wrote:
>So I have been doing more traveling for work lately and also having to 
>book hotels for my employees.  I use Hilton so I can accumulate
>points.  
>Anyway, Hilton has been running a promoting that ended at the end of 
>April that you get 2000 bonus points for each stay and another 10k
>bonus 
>points after 5 stays.  That was a great deal.  So this whole time I 
>thought I was earning these bonus points. Little did I know that you
>had 
>to sign up for this promotion before your stays to take advantage.  
>CRAP.  I ended up getting the bonus on 2 stays last month.  The new 
>promotion is double points earned on stays thru August.  I did sign up 
>for that.  1st world problems.
>
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Re: [MBZ] 1st year 140 diesel, omigod

[RELNGSON]

My mechanic has a '92 300SD just shy of 100K miles. I kinda fell for 
it.

This calls for one of them interventions.

RLE


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Re: [MBZ] 1st gear start mod

[Dave M.]

Does anyone have info on how exactly to do this? A photo, pointing to
the area in question, sure would be nice. I had been under the
impression a major valve body mod was needed. Perhaps the 722.4 tranny
can be easily modified, but the 722.3 cannot, or vice-versa? I'd love
to know more about this... drives me batty on my 1986 300E.

:)

-dm

 --
 Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:24:10 EST
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [MBZ] 1st


 In the early '90s Mercedes saw the error of their ways and allowed the
 gas transmissions to start in 1st. Cars built a year or two before 1st gear
 starts became standard COULD be converted (it was NOT a cheap
 conversion - required that the valve body be removed and some pieces
 replaced) but cars with transmissions build before that (about '89 and
 earlier I think) can't be converted (you'd need a completely replace the
 valve body).

 If I had any personal archives, I could exhume a post I made more than ten
 years back on this subject but I don't, so I won't. Paraphrasing, when I was
 driving my '89 190E 2.6 and my friend SJB got his new '91 300E with 1st gear
 start and I drove it, I was hot to add that feature to my '89. So, after 
 repeated
 talks with one of the two MB reps in my area, one of them called Montvale, in
 my presence, and asked what could be done. The answer was that they had
 converted several company cars and the fix was to remove the little spring 
 from
 behind the kickdown piston. Soon after, the shop foreman, with me watching,
 removed the valve body (a few fasteners), removed one of the cheesehead
 screws from the end of it (they are numbered) and out dropped a little piston
 followed by the spring in question. Reassemble in reverse order. After a 
 careful
 adjustment of the trans cable (or was it a rod?) I had first gear start. What 
 a
 difference!

 I carried that little spring in a zip-loc bag in the car for a few years
 until I traded it of in '95.

 Probably cost about $150 including the fluid change.

 RLE

Re: [MBZ] 1st gear start mod

[James Zavesky]

Dave,

Read the same post, spent the morning looking at the exploded parts diagram
in the EPC looking for the spring he was talking about. This would be sweet
on our V12 now that BergWerks is gone and if the dealer can do it for $150
it just may be well worth it.

James Zavesky



- Original Message - 
From: Dave M. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] 1st gear start mod


 Does anyone have info on how exactly to do this? A photo, pointing to
 the area in question, sure would be nice. I had been under the
 impression a major valve body mod was needed. Perhaps the 722.4 tranny
 can be easily modified, but the 722.3 cannot, or vice-versa? I'd love
 to know more about this... drives me batty on my 1986 300E.

 :)

 -dm

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  Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:24:10 EST
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: Re: [MBZ] 1st
 
 
  In the early '90s Mercedes saw the error of their ways and allowed the
  gas transmissions to start in 1st. Cars built a year or two before 1st
gear
  starts became standard COULD be converted (it was NOT a cheap
  conversion - required that the valve body be removed and some pieces
  replaced) but cars with transmissions build before that (about '89 and
  earlier I think) can't be converted (you'd need a completely replace
the
  valve body).
 
  If I had any personal archives, I could exhume a post I made more than
ten
  years back on this subject but I don't, so I won't. Paraphrasing, when I
was
  driving my '89 190E 2.6 and my friend SJB got his new '91 300E with 1st
gear
  start and I drove it, I was hot to add that feature to my '89. So, after
repeated
  talks with one of the two MB reps in my area, one of them called
Montvale, in
  my presence, and asked what could be done. The answer was that they had
  converted several company cars and the fix was to remove the little
spring from
  behind the kickdown piston. Soon after, the shop foreman, with me
watching,
  removed the valve body (a few fasteners), removed one of the cheesehead
  screws from the end of it (they are numbered) and out dropped a little
piston
  followed by the spring in question. Reassemble in reverse order. After a
careful
  adjustment of the trans cable (or was it a rod?) I had first gear start.
What a
  difference!
 
  I carried that little spring in a zip-loc bag in the car for a few years
  until I traded it of in '95.
 
  Probably cost about $150 including the fluid change.
 
  RLE

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Re: [MBZ] 1st gear start mod

[Marshall Booth]

Dave M. wrote:

Does anyone have info on how exactly to do this? A photo, pointing to
the area in question, sure would be nice. I had been under the
impression a major valve body mod was needed. Perhaps the 722.4 tranny
can be easily modified, but the 722.3 cannot, or vice-versa? I'd love
to know more about this... drives me batty on my 1986 300E.

:)

-dm


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [MBZ] 1st



In the early '90s Mercedes saw the error of their ways and allowed the
gas transmissions to start in 1st. Cars built a year or two before 1st gear
starts became standard COULD be converted (it was NOT a cheap
conversion - required that the valve body be removed and some pieces
replaced) but cars with transmissions build before that (about '89 and
earlier I think) can't be converted (you'd need a completely replace the
valve body).

If I had any personal archives, I could exhume a post I made more than ten
years back on this subject but I don't, so I won't. Paraphrasing, when I was
driving my '89 190E 2.6 and my friend SJB got his new '91 300E with 1st gear
start and I drove it, I was hot to add that feature to my '89. So, after 
repeated
talks with one of the two MB reps in my area, one of them called Montvale, in
my presence, and asked what could be done. The answer was that they had
converted several company cars and the fix was to remove the little spring from
behind the kickdown piston. Soon after, the shop foreman, with me watching,
removed the valve body (a few fasteners), removed one of the cheesehead
screws from the end of it (they are numbered) and out dropped a little piston
followed by the spring in question. Reassemble in reverse order. After a careful
adjustment of the trans cable (or was it a rod?) I had first gear start. What a
difference!

I carried that little spring in a zip-loc bag in the car for a few years
until I traded it of in '95.


I have it from an authoritative source that ONLY the valve bodies 
manufactured for about a year (or year and a half) before 1st gear 
starts became standard, can be modified. In older transmissions (seems 
like earlier than '89), the entire valve body would need to be replaced 
with a newer one. '86-'87s for sure CAN'T be modified.


Marshall
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Re: [MBZ] 1st gear start mod

[Marshall Booth]

Marshall Booth wrote:


I have it from an authoritative source that ONLY the valve bodies 
manufactured for about a year (or year and a half) before 1st gear 
starts became standard, can be modified. In older transmissions (seems 
like earlier than '89), the entire valve body would need to be replaced 
with a newer one. '86-'87s for sure CAN'T be modified.


Marshall


Here's a quote about 124 300E transmissions with some dates:

It was somewhere in the late 90 production run. All 91's have it and 
a few of the late 90's also. About 50% of the 89 valve bodies can
be modified and almost all of the 90's, for first gear starts. It is a 
factory mod, takes about 2.5 hours (RR the valve body, DA the

valve body, and modify which consists of removing one check ball).

Stu


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Re: [MBZ] 1st oder 2nd

[RELNGSON]

All of my 201s start in 1st (at least the way I drive them)

On the other hand, my '89 190E 2.6 started in 2nd before I had it modified to 
1st gear start.

RLE

Re: [MBZ] 1st

[RELNGSON]

In the early '90s Mercedes saw the error of their ways and allowed the gas 
transmissions to start in 1st. Cars built a year or two before 1st gear 
starts became standard COULD be converted (it was NOT a cheap conversion - 
required 
that the valve body be removed and some pieces replaced) but cars with 
transmissions build before that (about '89 and earlier I think) can't be 
converted 
(you'd need a completely replace the valve body).

If I had any personal archives, I could exhume a post I made more than ten 
years back on this subject but I don't, so I won't. Paraphrasing, when I was 
driving my '89 190E 2.6 and my friend SJB got his new '91 300E with 1st gear 
start and I drove it, I was hot to add that feature to my '89. So, after 
repeated 
talks with one of the two MB reps in my area, one of them called Montvale, in 
my presence, and asked what could be done. The answer was that they had 
converted several company cars and the fix was to remove the little spring from 
behind the kickdown piston. Soon after, the shop foreman, with me watching, 
removed the valve body (a few fasteners), removed one of the cheesehead screws 
from 
the end of it (they are numbered) and out dropped a little piston followed by 
the spring in question. Reassemble in reverse order. After a careful 
adjustment of the trans cable (or was it a rod?) I had first gear start. What a 
difference!

I carried that little spring in a zip-loc bag in the car for a few years 
until I traded it of in '95.

Probably cost about $150 including the fluid change.

RLE