Calling all Michigan Mercedes owners! Please sign-up for the Michigan-Detroit Metro Mercedes-Benz meetup group. Every month we have a “meeting”, generally just dinner at a restaurant to just talk and hangout with fellow owners and enthusiasts. We just had our first meet today and it was a blast! There is a link to the site below in my signature. We look forward to seeing you next month.

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Adam Lumsden
(83) 300D
Vice-President of the MBCA International Stars Section

food and MB talk.
Passed on tips for a couple of local cheap 240D's, an SEL and a W124 190E.
Diesel talk, SVO and WVO through the meal was great.
See you next month.

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ASE Master Mechanic
asemastermechanic@juno.com

Prototype R&D/testing:
Thermal & Aerodynamic System Engineering (TASE) Senior vehicle instrumentation technician.
Noise Vibration and Harshness (NVH).
Dynamometer.
Heat exchanger durability.
HV-A/C Climate Control.
Vehicle build.
Fleet Durability
Technical Quality Auditor.
Automotive Technical Writer

1985 300SD
1983 300D
1984 190D
2003 Volvo V70
2002 Honda Civic

https://www.boldegoist.com/

I had gotten home from building airplanes and found that my wife had cooked a roast.


Mmmmmm!

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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)

I had a few things on the docket today. I just joined the other day. Looks like fun.


As a side note I booted up the svo tank again today drove on grease for a short while then the engine lost power and almost stalled.... Turns out if you can run a diesel on many things, but you can't run it on engine coolant.

I took apart the tank in the dark tonight and found the connectors for the heater were leaking into the tank.
I'm going to have to rebuild that too.

Wish I could have made it out there.

-Ben

Theres always next month!

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Adam Lumsden
(83) 300D
Vice-President of the MBCA International Stars Section

I didn't know about yesterdays GTG...could have been there since all I did was laze about. Next one I'll be in CA though. We are fast approaching that time of year when I start bouncing about the country, El Paso in a week and a half, California for two weeks soon after, possibly Austin in May or June and way too many more to remember right now. I've save your site so I'll be able to keep tabs and try to work my schedule with it.

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Mike Tangas
'73 280SEL 4.5 (9/72)- RIP
Only 8,173 units built from 5/71 thru 11/72

'02 CLK320 Cabriolet - wifey's mid-life crisis

2012 VW Jetta Sportwagon TDI...at least its a diesel

Non illegitemae carborundum.