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Date: 2008-01-31, 10:33PM PST

Mercedes S320 1995, with 3.2 engine. Vehicle had Transmission parts stollen while parked, and is missing vave body/Speed sensor/blower.

Slight dent on on left front fender.

Engine runs very well. Radio stollen and valve body stollen off transmission. A reconditioned transmission will just over a thousand dollars. Dont miss this oportunity to own this beautiful car. Please contact me for more details. Serious Offers Accepted! NO TIME WASTERS PLEASE! Phone 650 xxx xxxx

Thieves didn't have time to take the cat?

I didn't know you could get W210 wheels on a W140.

Sixto
87 300D

Hmm.....650 area code? Foster City?

There was a guy in LA ripping off nothing but W210 mirrors.

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1974 240D 3.0L 4(M) - 250K -OM617.910 + 300D FW + Rajay turbo power!
1977 6.9 3(A) - 84k

First time I ever heard of stealing a valve body.....

FLASH! Another in the searial stealing of mercedes 140 valve bodies. Local law enforcment officials are working feverishly to try to piece together clues to apprehend this nefarious felon!

Sounds like an inside job to me. I wonder if the guy just broke up with his mechanic girlfriend?

Tom W

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

I live in a rough neighborhood. One night I was held up, but the guy had class. He used an electric razor. This guy, he took my watch, my wallet, and a little off the sides. Actually, I blame myself. I was standing right next to an outlet

I live in a rough neighborhood. We just put up a sign. It says "Drive Fast. The life you save may be your own."

I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.

I live in a rough neighborhood, I bought a waterbed, there was a guy at the bottom of it

R. Dangerfield

San Mateo is a nice area, I thought.

I am in a so called "gated community" up here in the Sierra foothills.

That allowed me to leave the Mercedes unlocked and in the driveway overnight for about 3 years, and nothing ever happened, except the roof clearcoat got destroyed by the harsh heat and cold extremes. I finally got wise and made room in the garage for it with the Subaru Outback that is in there.

Nothing at all like when I lived in San Francisco, a nice neighborhood, but cars once in a while got stolen, or the wheels stolen off them (Japanese cars usually)

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

I lived in a neighborhood I heard was "bad" for about two years. I usually left my cars unlocked, and nobody bothered them. In October I moved to a "better" neighborhood about two miles away, and someone stole the owner's manual out of my (unlocked) 240D.

When I lived in Midtown Atlanta, someone took the hood ornament off my Lincoln Town Car.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 401,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 26,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.
99 Mazda Miata 183,xxx miles.

Lafayette is generally pretty safe. But I habitually lock my vehicles even if just going into the drug store for five minutes. YOu never know who might happen along and decide to take something relatively insignificant. It could be my favorite cd or a wrench.

If left unlocked a couple of times in thrity years of living here I have come out in the morning to find my glove box rifled.

ONce my tools got stolen out of the garage. And my rear speakers got taken out of my bmw bavaria.

It turned out the Catholic church next door had an ex con working as a janitor and a few weeks later I saw what appeared to be my speakers in the back of his POS pickup truck.

I never can get my wife to lock hardly anything though.

I suggest she might come out someday and find that a wino slept in the car and urinated in her seat......thinking that image would do it.....to no avail.

Tom W

Tom W

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

I leave my car running at the grocery store.

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You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows - Robert A. Zimmerman

If I lived in Minnesota, I would too!

Tom W

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[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

I've always heard that Toyotas and Hondas are the most often stolen cars. I guess that's for the parts.

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

Accords, Civics and Camrys the most.

Most of all, they want the Airbags out of them.

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

My cousins ex boyfriend had a Civic SI with tons of mods done to it, TV's the works. IE totaly pointless. Anyway one of his "friends" probably stole it and brought it to New Haven, the cops found the body shell on a nice crappy street. Its like the plane that got stripped in Lord of War. Those people are like ants they swarm over something like that and take every bolt. Then your nice $5k brake kit gets sold for $500, and the $1k carbon fiber hood gets slapped on some $500 POS civic with miss matching fenders.

I never lock my cars, no one bothers them.

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2016 Corvette Stingray 2LT
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

Yep.

Think: wheels and "VTEC"

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1991 560 SEC AMG, 199k <---- 300 hp 10:1 ECE euro HV ...

1995 E 420, 170k "The Red Plum" (sold)

2015 BMW 535i xdrive awd Stage 1 DINAN, 6k, <----364 hp

1967 Mercury Cougar, 49k

2013 Jaguar XF, 20k <----340 hp Supercharged, All Wheel Drive (sold)

I generally don't lock my doors unless I absolutely have to. I rather replace my stereo, than have to replace my stereo AND my window.

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1989 300E 144K

I lock my car everywhere I go. I don't trust anyone.