LOL - Now, THAT can get expensive, I'll bet!

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Gil

2004 ML350
1984 300CD; Ivory (sold)

Some girls are just hard on the hardware......


..........and some guys just love it......

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...Tracy

'00 ML320 "Casper"
'92 400E "Stella"

OF course the dealer just wants to charge us $200 for a 24 minute drive diagnostic (Read- they let the guys drive the car to get lunch twice).

Any particular reccommendations to give the dealer so they might find that a gear in the tranny is shot?

As for the girlfriend. I did trade in for a low mileage Maserati at one point- but it was always a huge drama. In the end I returned to this one. What is she? I guess a pre-owned Lexus GS 300- needs minor body work- fitted with aftermarket larger headlights, with 44,000 miles no rust and three kids in the back seat. Always starts- no surprises, and never leaves me stranded, theft isn't as bad as an exotic and somehow it seems to get through anything New England Weather can throw at it. Also I don't have to worry about dings as this one is "mommy hardened".

But She thinks I want a Maybach or lots of shiny low mileage free loaners from dealers (Local Boston Colleges). I probably have been on too many test drives.

WTF is that! This b*tch seems to me like one of the people who just doesn't car about anything and leeches off other people. I can just image you both getting married, she becomes a fat slob, then a divorces you. The same thing happens with you as the ex-husband and shes driving the E500 that will get infested with maggots while you have to pay her alimony while whe gets another boyfriend.

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1992 Mercedes-Benz 400E
2002 Mercedes-Benz ML500

Do I sense some bitterness here? Perhaps too close to reality?

There are some things that require training...car maintenance for instance.

Took years to get my wife to understand this when we were dating. Her cars weren't maggot-infested, but I would call them "large metal purses"!

Her car doesn't look like that anymore, but only because I tend to all of the vehicles' care and maintenance weekly.

And I still find sticky residue on wood consoles, Altoids and fries in the nooks and crannies, and all sorts of assorted clothing accessories, jewelry in the ashtray, papers in the rear canopy area, etc. etc...and this is the SL!

I've tried to give her firm suggestions to the alternatives, but it's no use.

Different priorities I guess...because there are clothes that I walk out of the house wearing that she screams are "unacceptable"!

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2009 ML350 (106K) - Family vehicle
2001 CLK430 Cabriolet (80K) - Wife's car
2005 BMW 645CI (138K) - My daily driver
2016 Mustang (32K) - Daughter's car

I guess I listen to Tom Leykis too much

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1992 Mercedes-Benz 400E
2002 Mercedes-Benz ML500

Well some people are just sloppy and she is one of them- though she professes to be organized.

Ever watch Queer Eye for the straight guy? They go into sloppy peoples homes and fix them. Shelves and closets are almost always the things they attack

Shes personally very clean and is all around a nice woman- she's just a slob and feels threatened without her "protective car encasing her". I suppose most women are afraid of being raped in urban areas and are too nervous to take the subway.

Ironically if she was a fat ugly girl, she likely wouldn't be afraid of public transportation.

The dealership couldn't reproduce the problem so we get the car back today.

The only advice they have is drive it until you get stuck.


I'm not going to be in the car when the tranny drops.

It's actually a cry for help from the car itself. It no longer wishes to be filled with kids who have sticky hands, and its transmission shudders at the thought that maggots might thrive somewhere within the car.
Cars have feelings too.... I think hers is depressed because it feels abused, "dirty", and neglected, and is probably thinking of suicide - starting with the transmission - after all, its the fastest way to get her out of the car.

I feel bad for the car. I really do.

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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. Robert A. Heinlein


09 Jetta TDI
1985 300D

Now the car makes a grinding sound in park and neutral along with a sound that sounds like you kept turning the key even after car has started.

It screams from the neglect.

Please help this little innocent e420.

That could be the solinoid getting stuck.

Yeah I can't spell

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1992 Mercedes-Benz 400E
2002 Mercedes-Benz ML500

Take the car to an independent mechanic, there is something wrong with the transmission or ring gear if it makes noises like that. Could be a bad starter or bad ring gear, or both.

Benz starters have overrunning clutches, so if the solenoid is stuck the engine won't drag the starter motor, but that clutch will make terrible noises if the starter gear is touching the ring gear while the engine is running.

This car is sorta young for this kind of trouble, though.

Peter

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1972 220D ?? miles
1988 300E 200,012
1987 300D Turbo killed 9/25/07, 275,000 miles
1985 Volvo 740 GLE Turobodiesel 218,000
1972 280 SE 4.5 165, 000 - It runs!

Dump the woman and the car.

Can you imagine living with that (woman) for the remainder of your days? Very unpleasant.

I remember when I first met my current GF- looked at her car ('94 mazda protege) and just shook my head- hadn't been waxed in looked like years (this was in '96). I kinda gave her a hard time about it, being that her house was absolutely spotless. I eventually kinda took the poor thing under my wing, cleaned it up, serviced it, showed her HOW to check the oil. That gave her some initiative and she does better, but not to my standard. I'm curious just how bad that poor merc would end up if you didn't do anything to it. I know that I just wouldn't be paying for the car and the services. If that was the case, I'd buy her a Honda and let her beat the crap out if that thing. It seems to me that she just puts gas in it and drives it and nuts up when it poops out from the neglect. I see your efforts as noble, but you could REALLY be setting yourself up for some stressful condiions down the road. I couldn't have a woman that was that bad on a car, because I KNOW where THAT kind of stuff heads.....divorce court. Oh, and by the way, she still has the Protege, 140K and still going. I'm in Germany now, we'll see how long before she blows it up or gets scared of the mileage and wants to trade it in on that cool Subaru Outback she keeps talking about.

Get the girlfriend rebuilt! Put in a new ECU. It'll cost you less in the long run than putting in a rebuilt tranny. hehe

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84 500SEL EURO 101K ( JUST LIKE MY 1ST WIFE. GLAD TO GET RID OF HER! )
85 300D 310K (sold)
90 350SDL 184K sold
83 300D 118K (sold)
88 300E 153k (sold)
93 400E 105K (sold)

Uh, what's cool about a Subaru Outback?

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Lenny

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. --Ernest Hemingway

'10 GL550/'04 BMW 545/'99 BMW 323/'98 ML320/'87 VW GTI (race)