I burned a vacation day today to work on my youngest daughter's VW. Pulled the wheels to check the brakes and found a cracked rear rotor and that it needed brakes all around. Off to the parts house. Started the job and broke the 8MM allen socket. Off to Sears for a new one. Found the rear caliper was bad and no one, even my local VW dealer, had one in stock. OK started on the front brakes, snapped off the bleader screw. Drilled it and inserted an easy- out. Snapped off the easy-out. Ordered an other caliper. The car is on jack stands in my driveway and my daughter will be using my truck until the parts come next Monday.
Sounds like a bad day, but it wasn;t. Why. Because I had a four year old blonde granddaughter helping me. She helped jack up the car with a floor jack. She removed the lug nuts with an impact gun, with help. She handed me tools and ask the same questions a million times. She learned the colors red and blue from the locktite she handed me and she learned numbers by looking for an eleven MM wrench in a big toolbox.
Ya, I guess that I have something to be thankful for.

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Thank you, Jay
83MB 300D 241K "The silver coffin"
10 Prius lll 1K
95 MB E300D 120K Mable
02 Saab 9-5 Areo 131K
Cannondale SR500
www.thecornerstonefamily.org/

...what a cute story.

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2006 E350 w/ 155k miles (Daily Driver)

Previous:
1993 300E 3.2L Sedan w/ close to about 300k miles
2003 E500 Brilliant Silver (Had 217k miles when totalled!)
1989 300E with 289,000 miles (had for <1 yr while in HI)
03 CLK 500 cabrio (Mom's)
2006 C230k (Dad's)
1999 S420 (Mom's/Dad's)
2000 C230k Sport sedans
2001 CLK320 Cabrio (Mom's)
1995 C280 My First Mercedes-Benz... (155k miles. EXCEPTIONAL AUTOMOBILE. Was Very hard to let go of!)

I love 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.

Great story.... I cant wait to have kids. They are so much fun!!! My brother trained my little neice (3 at the time) to call my MB German Junk! Well, he though it was funny..... :p :p

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Brandon



2008 S550
1957 Dodge D100
1967 VW Microbus 21 Window
2001 Suburban
2004 Beach cruiser bicycle
-----------------GO DUKE!-----------------

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here." Patrick Henry 1776

<> Skip the kids and go right to the grandchildren.

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Thank you, Jay
83MB 300D 241K "The silver coffin"
10 Prius lll 1K
95 MB E300D 120K Mable
02 Saab 9-5 Areo 131K
Cannondale SR500
www.thecornerstonefamily.org/