When I changed oil on the W126 and the W202, I'd do it on Sunday morning before the apartment office people dragged their lazy tails in to work. Nobody ever reported me. Doing a change with a Topsider doesn't look like an oil change anyway; it looks more like you're giving your car a transfusion.

I don't recall anything in the complex's rules about working on your car. I figure as long as you're reasonable and not too messy, what would they have to complain about? They won't do anything about the teen ferals who roam, holding onto their baggy pants, up and down the street, or about the gangsta wannabes who drive their Escalades with the stereo up so loud the bass shakes my front door, or the babymamas who screech at their packs of offspring in the pools. Why would they care about some drops of oil on the pavement?
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-- Paul W. (The Benzadmiral)
('03 Buick Park Avenue, charcoal/cream)
Formerly:
'97 C230, smoke silver/parchment; '86 420SEL, anthracite/light grey; '84 280CE (W123), dark blue/palomino