I took this one last year some time. Half a million km. 300TD, completed the last 180,000km on straight fat.

Well if he's not planning on selling it, it doesn't much matter.

Nice milestone. What part of DFW do you live in?

I might trade you my C for your F....

Not sure what all has to be removed, the sensor, cable and display unit?

My bulb(s) burnt out a while back but while it's out it shouldn't be a really tough replacement job...
but then again I've gotten pretty good at estimating Fahrenheit temperatures based on the degrees Celcius anyway.

Some are pretty basic and can be / have been memorized:
-20 deg C = -4 deg F - if it gets this cold I might plug in the block heater
-10 deg C = 14 deg F - starts fine without the block heater but why
-5 deg C = 23 deg F my 300D wouldn't start at this temperature
0 deg C = 32 deg F - watch out for black ice (love that +0.0 or -0.0, the F display on my 300TE just shows "32 deg F")
10 deg C = 50 deg F - moderately warm, nice - spring!!!
20 deg C = 68 deg F - standard room temperature for lots of stuff
25 deg C = 77 deg F - warm room temperature
30 deg C = 86 deg F - tropical.. at these temps I drive the gas car cuz the AC works :)
anything over this is just too hot :sun_smile

just remember that 10 deg C = 18 deg F so I do some math in my head while driving... keeps the mind occupied

That's OK, I don't plan on selling it. The car has been in our family since new (it was my mom's). She gave it to me at 182K and I've enjoyed the hell out of wrenching on it it and getting back to a very solid daily driver. The car for me is a dependable decent looking ride that I can drive hard and put all my commute miles on. From what I tell, if you do very rigourous maintenance, these cars pay you back mile after mile.

My nissan is so dorked with it won't pass emmissions so it's a show / track car at this point it and stays off the road except to keep the battery charged (it's a backup to the 84 300SD I guess). The CLK55 is a garage queen... in 4 years I think I got caught out in the rain once. It's just a weekend car.

As to JimmyL's question - officially our house is in Lewisville, really just north of Carrollton.

congrats and welcome to the 2k club.

Let us know when you get into the 3k club. :vbac47679

Just play with your unfamilar measurement types until you get comfy with them. Its what I did with 24 hour time on my watch and now degrees C in the benz and whenever I get near a thermomter. Even the PC status program I use has degrees C displayed. I am a chem major...go figure :rolleyes:

F Readout
 

Umm this might be a little easier:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1,1&item=7965202224&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT

F degree readout for your Temp gauge. Oh and all you gotta do is pull out the Instrument Cluster and unscrew 2 screws to change the gauge out.


http://www.benzbonz.biz

Marty

600,000
 

I've recently completed 250,000km on straight fat and the car now has over 600,000km in total. She just keeps getting better.Attachment 36596

Easy to remember Centigrade scale
 

From a "bilingual" Canadian who travels frequently in the US

Centigrade temperature Actual reading in a real scale

over +30 Summer in Washington DC

+25 a nice summer day in New England

+20 downtown San Fran in the spring

+10 a cool fall day in upstate Michigan

0 freezing point

-10 "brutal cold" for a NYC newscaster

-20 Minnesota or N Dakota winter

below - 25 Alaska winter

When you say Bilingual do you mean English and American?

I believe it is pronounced "Americanese" as stated in Hot Shots part II.

part deux

I love the FAT light! :laugh:

Extra Credit
 

i am now at 394500 miles not them little km's do i get extra credit when i get to 400000????? Had an accident 6 weeks ago been arguien with insurance ever since the 25 year old adjuster thought he did me a favor after all the fighting to offer me $2400 guess i'll buy it back and run up another 100000 maybe i can hit 400000 on thanksgiving wont i be thankful God is GOOD