Thanks to all for the kind words. This has been very frustrating for us and nearly broke us up more than once from the sheer strain alone.

All our holidays were ruined by this, not to mention my 40th birthday. As a result of losing the house, my 19 year old son Robert must drive 35 miles to college everyday in our horrible Tule Fog. The house was less than 3 miles from the college. I was really bummed by all of this.

On a lighter note, the 300SD is doing very well and seems to like 10,000 mile oil changes on 15w40 Shell Rotella T.

Things can only get better!!!...Bert