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G-Benz · #4 03-28-2003, 03:56 PM

Judging from your current number of posts, I assume you are pretty new here.

There is no definitive "rate-of-return" when it comes to turnaround on thread replies. Some threads get instant response, while others just scroll down the page unanswered, save for a few curious "views".

Some problems are easy enough to diagnose from the comfort of a laptop, but when a question is posed of some knotty problem, and the thread is devoid of diagnostic info, pics, or other relavent information, well, some of us are a bit gun-shy to just dive in with some half-baked analysis of the situation.

From what I've seen, the majority of questions DO indeed get attention, and as far as the techs are concerned, (since they do have day jobs, and don't sit around surfing MercedesShop.com all day), they try to answer as much of the threads they can in the evenings.

Many of those threads comprise of topics than many of us non-techs can respond to with some degree of confidence, so there is no need for MBDoc, Steve, or Gilly to interject...unless they determine that we are leading the thread starter wildly astray!

And if you surfed this forum daily for four or five years, you'd find nearly every technical question has probably been exhausted several times over...hence the "sticky" regarding using the search feature.

And if you become a veteran forum member (and I hope you do), you will find some of your threads go unanswered.