ROTFLMAO !!!!

That is funny.


Anyone see the picture circulating the net of a car with a gas pump hose hanging out the side?

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85 300D 3 pedal. Current project.
83 300TD (need rear wiper assembly dead or alive)
84 300SD Daily driver
85 300TD almost 400k miles and driven daily.
98 E300D *sold
86 300SDL *sold and made flawless 10 hour journey to new home.

Based on some really helpful posts from the "old guard" (where did they all go by the way?) I bought a $10 light timer at Walmart and a heavy outdoor "all temp" ext cord. I set the timer to turn on the block heater 2 hours before I needed to start it. Then I swapped the glow plugs out, and ran rotella synthetic. The 190d started every frigid morning like nothing.

The heater didn't help when the 190 sat in the office parking lot for 10 hours though... I had to go out and run it for 10 minutes or so a couple times a day...

Smash is staying plugged in all night tonight since I don't have a timer. Going to get down to around 15 degrees, which NEVER EVER happens here. Our deal with the devil is to put up with 110 in the summer so we can stay above 30 in the winter.....

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Jimmy L.
'05 Acura TL 6MT
2001 ML430 My Spare

Gone:
'95 E300 188K "Batmobile" Texas Unfriendly Black
'85 300TD 235K "The Wagon" Texas Friendly White
'80 240D 154K "China" Scar engine installed
'81 300TD 240K "Smash"
'80 240D 230K "The Squash"
'81 240D 293K"Scar" Rear ended harder than Elton John

I plugged mine in for a while yesterday morning, it was about 0F when I woke up but I didn't have to go anyplace for a couple of hours. It should have started at 0F, but there's no reason to beat it up.

Can you leave the heater on while the car is idling for a faster warm up?

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1993 W124 300D 2.5L Turbo, OM602.962
2000 Chevrolet Cavalier, 2.4L DOHC
2002 Ford Explorer, 4.0L SOHC
2005 Toyota Prius, 1.5L

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The best way to warm up the car is to drive it.

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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate

Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.

True dat. But can you in the winter w/o overheating?

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1993 W124 300D 2.5L Turbo, OM602.962
2000 Chevrolet Cavalier, 2.4L DOHC
2002 Ford Explorer, 4.0L SOHC
2005 Toyota Prius, 1.5L

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