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Old 07-11-2003, 10:10 AM
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Unhappy This 240D is testing my patience!

Monday the alternator came loose and the battery ran down on the way to work. So I had to get a jump to get home.

Yesterday the accelerator linkage broke and I had to effect a field repair in order to get home. I made a slightly more permanent repair, as described here.

Thinking everything was fine, I set out for work this morning only to have the clutch hydraulics give out halfway there. I was close to Mercedes Benz of Tampa, so I stopped in there. They wanted me to authorize $300 to replace the slave cylinder before they would even take it in to look at it.

So I managed to drive it back home without the clutch, and will deal with it this weekend. So far I haven't been stranded, but it seems like this car is trying awfully hard!
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