Pet Peeves!
 

What is your diesel pet peeve?

Mine is the word "gas"

It's FUEL folks!

It's not a gas pedal, it's an Accelerator!

You fill it up the FUEL tank with FUEL, not gas!

Your driving a diesel, so don't put a gas in the tank! Come on folks get with the program!:P

The only gas you have is the natural kind!:D

Mine is the word "Merc" as an abbreviation for Mercedes. I do not drive a mercury.

Yeah if you want to shorten it, just call it a BENZ, or MB (I like the 1st better)

Also you should never "run out of gas" while driving a diesel!:eek::D

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Mine (along with lots of you) is the use of 'TD" as meaning TurboDiesel. or DTD or whatever. makes no sense.

another of mine is misspellings. i know everyone, me included, misspell things but jeeese sometimes i can't figure out what someone is saying.

Personal pet peeves are all the people who think that my diesel is this inefficent pollution factory and when they say something to me at the diesel pump....I really want to hit them! and the other is parts stores....I only buy parts on fastlane now because no one else seems to know what a mercedes diesel is...

Yeah really! Alot of the people here are quite young, some still in college, been around computers all there life, still haven't figured out how to spell yet! I also understand some people just have fat fingers!:D

People lying about their "fuel":D mileage.

I got this when I was going store-to-store looking for brake calipers. I couldn't believe that these "parts professionals" didn't know what a diesel mercedes was :eek:. I'll admit I was a "parts professional" :P for a few years but they really drilled us with stuff--partially because they were the major wholesaler in the region, and also ran a separate heavy duty parts counter. Honestly they made sure that I ate drank and slept auto parts until I knew every little nuance. I think it is a unique experience unfortunately, having dealing with other places now that I moved.

One of my biggest peeves is how incredibly overpriced diesels are these days. Asking $5000 for a rust bucket is simply too much, and most of these cars are over 25 years old already. Also, it seems like EVERY craigslist ad states "excellent candidate for WVO conversion!!!!" grrrrrr

Yeah these cars will last 500,000 miles.....this car gets 35-40mpg.....ect ect....and yes perfect for WVO....holy crap people trying to sell these cars need a reality check.

Oh yeah, and one more thing that chaps my hide, the word "rare" in adverts.

It irks me when i see 300,000 miles is "low" or "barley broken in" on CL ads.

I'll turn things around. Something that bothers me is when certain cars are automatically considered parts cars worth nothing around here when they definitely have potential.

It really gets me when someone runs it on WVO, or SVO and claim that it will run perfectly safe just by filter the oil with a T-shirt and then say they get 100 MPG on it!!!! Oh I wish i could go there and prove them wrong!!!!

Modern day car dealers bother me the most, new and most used. Most of the salesmen are starving bottom feeders kept poor and stupid by the owners, and price cars 20-40% over market price to really beat someone over the head shopping for a "$250 car payment." There are a few low overhead operations in town flourishing because they don't pull the crap big dealerships do.

From the private standpoint, there are too many people with unrealistic expectations for the value of the car. There are a few in the cars section of this forum that are priced 2-3 times more than their worth. Then there's the woman down the street from my grandmother's who has her rotten, nasty 200k mile 560SEC parked in front of her house for nearly a year with a $9995.00 asking price which she has never budged from.

Going to look at a one-owner 1983 240d with a four speed in China blue, a good w123 combination. Described as having "little rust".

The driver's seat was one fat man away from falling out of the chassis, the rear wheel arches were just about missing due to rust.

Seeing my favorite Mercedes diesel for sale, a 1980 300sd green outside and tan inside, no rust, 200k miles, selling by the son of the first owner for $2300. It was the first Mercedes diesel I looked at but I couldn't buy it at the time.

Also craigslist.