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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (171030)	12/12/2008 10:15:50 PM
From: ChanceIs	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 306849

Patron...I keep telling you...we should pay the Germans $8 billion to take Chrysler off our hands and build those diesel Smart Cars 4Two @ $15K and 45 mpg. Drive all of those SUVs up there to use as raw materials. I bet you have enough materials in one Ford Excursion to get 2.5 Smart Cars. While we are at it, we can get them to crunch a few SUVs into light rails and passenger train cars. In actuality, I am a little POed at Mercedes these days. My 1995 E300 with 170K miles on it needed new glow plugs - two out of six were bad - runs rough for a bit on these cold mornings. Nothing wrong with glow plugs failing after that long. Problem is that the idiot who had the car before me never replaced them so they were frozen in the head. Bad design on Mercedes part. I had to have the head taken off and it is in a machine shop where the machinist is even having trouble with it. Grrrrrr. My mechanic tells me that the cylinders still have the original honing marks. Compression is fantastic. Car should go 350K easily. My '85 300SD went 320K before I sold it because too many little things were breaking. Funny how a little thing like a glow plug can tip over the whole cart. Its really a problem with the premixing chamber. The carbon build up and freezes the plug in place. People like me who keep cars for until they are 20 years old and have 300K plus miles is what killed Detroit. Or was it because Detroit didn't offer anything 1/10th as good.