Unsuccessful day in 190D
Day started out by going over to my mechanic's to have him try to remove the lug bolts on the back wheels so my friend and I could adjust the parking brake. He was able to loosen all of the bolts on the driver's side wheel but only 3 on the passenger side. One of the bolts still won't move and another snapped its head off so it will have to be drilled out next week. He said that he did not understand why they would not come out as he did not over tighten them when he re-installed the wheels after replacing the brake discs and pads and said it was probably because of how off the wheels desperately need an alignment. So we went over to one alignment shop and they said that they cannot work on Mercedes so we went to Kauffman Tire who wanted an extra $40 because it is a Mercedes, therefore it has "premium suspension" (total cost $120). They told us it would be 2 and 1/2 hours to get it done (usually takes an hour but there was a car ahead of us) so we get back there 2 1/4 hours later, wait 15 minutes and then the guy we spoke to earlier said that they could not do the alignment because the tires in the front were smaller than the ones in the back and we would have to replace those tires if we wanted them to do the alignment so we said no and took the car and left. I refuse to ever go back there because I do not want to buy tires just for the heck of it because I am 100% sure alignments on a Corvette are possible to do even though the tires on its back wheels are bigger than the ones on the front, as on many other cars. During those 2 &1/4 hours we were waiting, we went back to my friend's house and bled the brakes on another of my friend's 88 Ford Ranger. After that we did a 0-60 test and the 190D did it in 18 seconds which I assume is slower than it is supposed to be seeing as the 240D is supposed to do it in 18 seconds. Next we went back to my house and figured out that our auxiliary fan was not working because the incorrect relay was installed (we were having issues with the temperature in the car going way up) but the fan still doesn't come on when the engine gets hot which might be the coolant temp sensor or the AC switch on the center console (doesn't seem to work, probably needs to be cleaned like all of the other switches in the car) or something else that could be corroded.
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Current: 1975 450SEL, 83 300D, 88 Yugo GVX, 90 300D OM603 swap, 91 F150 4.6 4v swap, 93 190E Sportline LE 3.0L M104 swap, 93 190E Sportline LE Megasquirt, 03 Sprinter, 06 E500 4Matic wagon.
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