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...you're flooring your car to try to keep up with traffic on the freeway, but it looks like you're driving in reverse.
...you're confident that almost no one could simply drive your car away if they wanted to steal it without killing the battery and simply giving up (this is very true for the 220D.) ...when you pass a Napa, you habitually buy fuel filters, diesel purge and a mix of O-rings. ...when, in downtown Philadelphia, the guy sees me roll up in my diesel Benz and just turns the bio pump on instead of running my card or making me prepay like everyone else. <---this happened today! ...your car turns heads... of old cab drivers. ...you're always looking for a spare diesel Mercedes. or ...your backup to your car that has been known to get well over a million miles is one that is known to get well over half a million miles. ...you carry most, if not all tools necessary to do every single task that could be done on the car short of pulling the engine. And not because you wouldn't but because an engine hoist simply won't fit in a sedan or wagon (but they WILL fit in a van!) Phil Forrest
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pfft... you're not a TRUE MB diesel owner unless you have a craigslist search shortcut in your menubar preconfigured for mercedes diesel that you click EVERY TIME YOU TURN ON YOUR COMPUTER!!!
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For those of you who don't know this shortcut: you can separate search terms with "lines" (I don't know the actual name) such that any one of the terms triggers a result, like so: 240D|300D|300CD|300TD|300SDL|350SDL|350SD|240TD|300GD|E300D|E 300D|Mercedes Diesel|300DT|300CDT|300TDT|Mercedes 240|Mercedes 300 Edit: Apparently those are called "pipes". And apparently, "piping to grep" is some sort of manly skill that I can't do, probably because it is a manly skill -- can't have me cheapening it! Like George Burns said: "I would've hit her, but a man can't hit woman. And if a man can't do it, what chance have I got!?".
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Sounds like you need another car to fill that time!
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"Senior Luna, your sense of humor is still loco... but we love it, anyway." -rickymay ____ "Your sense of humor is still loco... " -MBeige ____ "Señor Luna, your sense of humor is quite järjetön" -Delibes 1982 300SD -- 211k, Texas car, tranny issues ____ 1979 240D 4-speed 234k -- turbo and tuned IP, third world taxi hot rod 2 Samuel 12:13: "David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die." |
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Those are called "pipes." Yeah, I was baffled by the name too when I found it out from a computer guru friend of mine. Phil Forrest
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You turn off the AC to get that extra burst of speed.
You're always looking forward to the next payday because it's already been earmarked for a new shipment of parts. You have no real idea how many miles the car has on it. So, you usually guestimate usually upwards. You wonder how that dent got in the top middle of your hood - son sitting on car. Your mechanic complains that he can't get withing 5 yards of your car without getting greasy.
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-You see oil drums at the mechanincs and wonder if you can have the old oil
-How about bugging every dodge truck shop in town to see if they have any holset takeoffs -Or stopping other random people asking them how many miles they have?
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...your lady friend/s will absolutely not drive the car in fear of getting greasy.
...your lady friend/s think the engine is very sick when they are riding in the passenger seat. Phil Forrest
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Y'all are making me feel out of place, now. I don't carry tools beyond the original Mercedes tool kit. I don't carry spare fluids, because the car uses none. I don't have the tow truck on speed dial because it never needs to be towed. I have zero problems surgically inserting myself in to tight traffic. I don't live in fear of being passed by an air-cooled VW. I am usually doing five over the speed limit, and no one tailgates me, but if they did, my car wouldn't smoke them out with full throttle. No one ever tells me I need to turn off my engine so they can hear me in drive-through.
I am either doing something very wrong, or very right, but I can't tell which.
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I guess so. I trust it like I would any new car... Maybe a little more, since I know exactly what's going on beneath all the greasy steel.
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Huh? That is odd... thanks for enlightening me .
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"Senior Luna, your sense of humor is still loco... but we love it, anyway." -rickymay ____ "Your sense of humor is still loco... " -MBeige ____ "Señor Luna, your sense of humor is quite järjetön" -Delibes 1982 300SD -- 211k, Texas car, tranny issues ____ 1979 240D 4-speed 234k -- turbo and tuned IP, third world taxi hot rod 2 Samuel 12:13: "David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die." |
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I know that in UNIX, and to a lesser extent DOS, the "|" character is called a pipe. It's used to connect the STDOUT of a standard program to the STDIN of a standard program. Otherwise the STDIN is the keyboard and the STDOUT is the terminal or screen.
I'm not sure if they operate in a similar manner in a string of text in a search field. Usually, they use concatenation in text strings or boolean operators. Sorry, I digress. How bout that grease eh?
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