I am not complaining, just wishing...Man I dont have a 2 car garage. I have to work on my cars Outside! The worst thing is the darkness, which can be very unpleasant. The sun is coming down at 5:30 PM and the wind kicks up here in New Jersey. so the hour or two I get before dinner time is done with a Work Lamp and in a chill.
That makes you feel conspicuous, everyone else is inside and makes you feel a bit lonely. here you are out in the dark and your wife is 15 feet away in the kitchen and your daughter is watching TV and there is no worse time to be a Certifies Tinkerer.
The next thing is vital repairs assume Stalingard proportions and you got to break out the 1000W Halogen lights. Fingers bruise easily and cuts come easily. Bolts get dropped and wrenches go flying..all the excitement is gone and all your adrenalin is consumes in just staying warm.
Short trips into the garage to get tools turn into a long ones as you warm yourself in front of the kerosene heater or pop your head into the kitchen..
What i would do for a Garage...

I know I have to do must repairs outside and it sucks! I am hoping to get all the pressing issues done in the next couple of weeks while we get 40-50 degree days. I will just cross my fingers and hope not to much breaks in Jan, Feb, and early March. (yeah right )

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2016 Corvette Stingray 2LT
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

Yep, gotta crawl under the beast myself today(while the sun is out) and try spraying down the bendix shaft on my starter, that began to sound like it's still spinning after the motor is running, now that it's cold out and replace my heater cord. I fear this is just the begining

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1999 E300DT (131,800) 154,000 Black on Black SOLD

2006 CLK 500 coupe Capri Blue on Grey (zoom,zoom)
47,000mi

04 VW TDI Passat 80,000mi
(Techno)

How to eliminate oil dependency through market-driven approaches.
“We could cut oil use in half by 2025, and by 2040, oil use could be zero,”
The Sound of Diesel Speed
Ode to MB

It keeps me motovated to get the stuff done in the summer. snow on the ground, car on jackstands. Why are my FEET cold? Ha good excuse to go inside and have more coffee!

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46 WDX Power Wagon

84 300TDT daily driver

I understand. I live north of you in jersey and I'm doing the tranny conversion

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Audi TT

Oh yes, working outside in the cold is such fun!!! It hurts so much worse when you hit your knuckles when it is cold. But, the worst part is laying in my gravel driveway with sharp granite chunks digging into my back. It could be worse, I could have to work on her in the street.

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1984 300D Turbo Sedan (Hilda) 272,115 miles.....
Anthracite Gray/Palamino Leather, I am 3rd owner

2001 Dodge Stratus (Silver) (wifes) 55814 miles...

1982 280TE Wagon Astral Silver Metallic/
Anthracite Velour
260,512 miles (Eva)

1969 230 Sedan Olive Green/Black MBTex
4 Speed Manual
84,213 miles ????
Haus Frau


2004 Boreem Ninja Pocket Bike
Highly Modified 49cc (Ling Ling)

Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit

I was under my truck in the mud last week. As soon as my starter arrives I'll be back under, hopefully the ground will be frozen and a piece of cardboard can be used as insulation.

I have the 180° opposite problem here in TX... 90% humidity in the summer, upper 90° temps. You nearly die from the heat, if you're not drinking fluids (not beers mind you) constantly that's bad news.

One extreme to the other.

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I'm not a doctor, but I'll have a look.

'85 300SD 245k
'87 300SDL 251k
'90 300SEL 326k

Six others from BMW, GM, and Ford.

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty.[/IMG]

#%%*(... I dont know why I just lose my motivation when December rolls in...weekend afternoons are spent taking long naps, it even seems exhausting even thinking about car projects and every Winter, I swear its my last year...yet by March I am up running around pulling engines and thinking up great ideas...the chilly frozen garage seems more like a Foreign Country then my home within my home...I swear, i wish I lived in Southern California, what does it atke to get there?

Well I have a problem. I have no garage at all. Living in an apartment complex, due to divorce, is all that I have. It's warm here in Texas, except for all this rain. I wish they had something like "Rent-A-Stall" or "Rent-A-Garage" so that I could tinker or do whatever. I feel bad for you guys in the North, with no garages, or no place to work on your car except in the cold.

That's why we're such a bunch of ornery cusses sometimes. But that's okay, spring is only about 100 days away. I can make it.

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'82 300SD - 361K mi - "Blue"

"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement."

listen, look, .........and duck.

I just pick my days and learn to live with a lot more crap! All of a sudden I ask myself "do I want to lay on the frozen grown when it is 30 degrees out to repair ___, or can it wait" Usually it can wait.

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2016 Corvette Stingray 2LT
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

I hear about half a mil to buy anything decent and a 40% higher cost of living overall

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1982 300DT 190K (Diesel Purge + synthetic oil=smoothness at last!!!)
2004 Ford E-350 6.0 L PSD 227K
2006 Dodge Ram 3500 SRW HO Cummins 4X4 48RE 42K (brute force tow vehicle)
2005 Scion xB wife's rolling pop can
1993 GMC Sierra C3500 6.2 142K

I always knew I had that, but who wants to admit it, all of us in the Wrenching Game know life is a matter of Mind over Matter, ie the skilled use of our mind and imagination over obstacles normal people find unimaginable.. I mean there are people ou there who dont know even how to open their engine compartment!!

Here's the new garage so far. Kind of a muddy mess...

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Michael LaFleur

'05 E320 CDI - 86,000 miles
'86 300SDL - 360,000 miles
'85 300SD - 150,000 miles (sold)
'89 190D - 120,000 miles (sold)
'85 300SD - 317,000 miles (sold)
'98 ML320 - 270,000 miles (sold)
'75 300D - 170,000 miles (sold)
'83 Harley Davidson FLTC (Broken again) :-(
'61 Plymouth Valiant - 60k mikes
2004 Papillon (Oliver)
2005 Tzitzu (Griffon)
2009 Welsh Corgi (Buba)