Awesome.

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1985 300 TD 448K
1984 300 TD 278K

1983 240D euro 240k
1994 f-250 idi turbo 330K
1986 f-350 IDI
1987 F-350 IDI

1985 JD 1050 4wd
1965 IH 3660

Time to buy that minivan!

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DrDKW

I had to revive this thread with a photo of what I came home to tonight. 300 pounds of garlic harvested and when the back of the TD got full someone decided to fill the other seats. Pic sucks cause it was taken with my phone, but notice the dirt that has dropped in the shifter and they piled it high enough to get in the ac vents.
The wife and children have both been cleaning since they came up with the idea together.

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1985 300 TD 448K
1984 300 TD 278K

1983 240D euro 240k
1994 f-250 idi turbo 330K
1986 f-350 IDI
1987 F-350 IDI

1985 JD 1050 4wd
1965 IH 3660

Did that mask the billy juice sheen?

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1985 300D-189k The 'UD', Ivory and Pinkamino
1979 300D-211k Dark Gray, Parchment
A 1980 Harley-~166k and
A 1994 Ford diesel pickup-349k and
A 1990 gasser Volvo wagon-145k

Wait, they just dumped garlic in your car?

They were harvesting and just packed it in, and I guess really its her car, I just paid for it and work on it, don't really get to drive it much.
During the cleanup I negotiated the option to cuss her blue six months from now when all the window switches quit working because of the dirt in them.
It does look much better now that its vacuumed and wiped down.
She does this to the car all the time, billy juice sheen is quite dull now.

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1985 300 TD 448K
1984 300 TD 278K

1983 240D euro 240k
1994 f-250 idi turbo 330K
1986 f-350 IDI
1987 F-350 IDI

1985 JD 1050 4wd
1965 IH 3660

It's amazing how having kids changes your perspective on this issue. I would freak out 3 years ago about my cars being dirty but now I seem to care less. My cars are still clean and we don't ever let the kids eat in them but dirt doesn't seem to matter anymore.

It's a battle that you just can not win. Wife has been driving the kids in my 82TD until I get her e320 wagon finally fixed... seems like every other day I remove at least a bag of kid trash from the car. I've basically given up on the carpets at this point since I plan on completely replacing them once I start using the car for myself. It's a real PITA actually. I spend hours/days rebuilding the car, get it so clean it looks like it just came of the showroom, and it's trashed in a matter of days.

sigh

My kids know that there is no eating in Daddy's car.
Mom's car can get like a rolling compost heap....

It got much better for awhile when I relayed the story of "The Roach Car" that came into my brothers shop when I worked there.
Had to explain to the owner that not only were we not going to fix her car, but we did not want it parked next to the building.
Came in for a heater core.... mechanic crawled in and started under the dash... came out screaming like a little girl after about 30 seconds.... guess the roaches were crawling on his head....

Now if the wife's car starts getting bad, I start 'seeing' bugs... that is typically enough to keep the car spotless for a couple weeks.

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On some nights I still believe that a car with the fuel gauge on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. - HST

1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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There is no eating in my car. Nor is there smoking or drinking of anything other than water. I had a passenger get in my car with cup of coffee. ONCE.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.