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pawoSD · #4 09-10-2007, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by bustedbenz

Wow... I'm glad I'm tall

- I drive mine with the drivers seat all the way back anyway... if mine started going the other way it'd probably kill me if I couldn't get the steering wheel to zoom out a little.

Once I put the backplate of the doorswitches on wrong, so the switch was snug against the backplate, when I pressed the button it jammed and I was nearly squashed by the power seat as it went forward.

Thos things are STRONG!

I think having a voltmeter is one of the greatest gauges to have in a car. When I was coming back from florida I knew my alternator (well, the regulator) had died on me when I was going through Georgia. My diehard international held up for another 7 hours of daytime driving with gauges and radio.....and then about 1.5 hours at night with headlights. I was finally forced to pull off in Florence, KY right by the border to ohio. MB of cincinatti came out (thats 34 miles away) in their cool M-class and gave me a new MB battery for $142 (only took an hour!)....then the alternator magically started working again, and I went the rest of the way home the next day.

It took another 5,000 miles before the alternator finally gave out completely on a trip home from school to my house (5 miles)...very convenient.

Then I swapped it with a nice 65A bosch rebuild from Murrays autoparts for $125. That was 9k ago...it was so freshly rebuilt that the bearings had new-bearing whine....which has finally faded away.