I drive a Mercedes but am married to a Ferrari -

Long Island

so there!


1990 300sd black
1990 300te persian


the 300te started slipping also, but after I changed the trans filter and flushed many times, it went away. I think the girl may be better than yours, when it comes to taking care of the car.

My wife insisted on buying a Land Rover. I insisted that she keep her Volkswagon so that she would have something to buy when the Rover is in the shop. So far keeping the Volkswagon was the best idea about buying a Rover.

Oh no, don't think anyone else but yourself should drive that absolutely GORGEOUS silver E500!

I've seen your car and you around Newbury a few times. I always have to stop (if driving) or just stand and stare.

BTW, I drive a Black e420 with Evo wheels (not anymore - put the 15s on for winter).

ps, tried Hatch for advice maybe? So far they've done good work with my car...

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2008 BMW 335i Coupe

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

Yeah I think you are right because it seems it happens only when I start the car- I think it has more to do with the spring that pops the key back once started. Of course it only does it in Park.

No more tranny problems...................for now.

Has she ever checked her ATF fluid level or asked a gas station guy to look at it ? NO....will she ever....no....

I watched her car mileage go past the 3000 mile mark since her last oil change. That was over 2 months ago.

I bug her every day that she needs to change the oil...or she won't have a car anymore.

Thankfully I thought well enough to put Mobil 1 in her car last oil change. But the filter is likely about to clog.

I do have an idea as to what to do. I think a Deisel is the right choice for her.
Or perhaps a fully electric car (thinking Corbin Sparrow...ha ha ha ha.). She likes the V8 when she needs it- but likely I could switch her into a 300E or perhaps even a diesel and most of the time she would not know the difference.

One good thing though- her + her 3 kids fight each other like crazy screaming in the car all the time.

Thankfully....there is no room for them in my 2 + 2 seating in my E500!