Honestly, I wish that was the case. Unfortunately, they were both pretty significant problems. One rebuild was for faulty wrist pins, which there was a service bulletin about. The other was for a metal shaving that clogged the oil port leading to cylinder 1, which starved the cylinder of oil and locked the engine up…

I’ll admit I post about this whenever I get the chance. Obviously, I am biased. I partially do it to warn people. I also do it partially because Mercedes really did not do much to help us out, and lied about features on the car. I’m really not happy with how they handled the situation. If the first rebuild had…

Well, statistically speaking the odds of a second marriage lasting is way less than the first. The last time I checked, second marriages end in divorce over 75% of the time. He might be onto something.

True story. We bought the car as a CPO less than a year old. Within 6 months the engine had to be rebuilt twice. No hard driving. Well maintained. Both times Mercedes said it was due to manufacturing problems. The first one was due to problems with the wrist pins, which there was a technical bulletin about. The second…

I can 100% confirm that I would not recommend buying a car with this engine without a warranty. That is what the person I was replying to said. I don’t know how to get to 1,000%.

THIS!!!

Maybe we got a dud, but my wifes C300 with an older gen turbo 4 had to have the engine rebuilt twice by the time it was two years old and is still leaking coolant. I wouldn’t trust one making more power. 

Can confirm. I have an C300 with an older gen turbo 4. By the time it was two years old, the engine had to be rebuilt twice and it is still leaking coolant. I wouldn’t trust one making more power. 

I have an C300 with an older gen turbo 4. By the time it was two years old, the engine had to be rebuilt twice and it is still leaking coolant. I wouldn’t trust one making more power. 

I have a friend with his luggage stuck on the wrong side of customs in China who would disagree. It was lost while traveling in China, and he was out of the country before they found it. They will send him the luggage for free, if he can find a way to get it through customs.

I gave you a star but wanted to make sure you knew there is a place in Alabama that buys up lost luggage and sells it in a store. So it is less a racket and more a business model, with lots of grey area.

Reminds me of highschool when people would replace their damaged Wrangler bumpers with 4x4 beams.

After I wrote this, I realized this vehicle could have rolled coal on Tesla, the person not the car, which has to be the ultimate bro truck achievement.

Was this the first bro truck?

Bostonians only know how to enjoy life based on how miserable it makes people. It is a thing there. If you don’t have to suffer to get something good, then it is not worth it. Vermont needs equal rep to keep Boston from spreading its misery to other places.

Since they already paid for the rights to the lyrics and possibly to use the word ‘chevy’ on the shirt, why would they cheap out on the image?

I feel like people are missing the point that this individual has made multiple trips to check on the Jeep and try to maintain it even in these conditions. Most people would have already wrote it off on insurance. He/She obviously loves it. I think the best move is to fix it the best they can and daily drive it.

I’ve lost my mind twice in the past year (for rat-related reasons) after reading pieces from the New York Times and the Washington Post about the supposedly exploding rat populations in New York and D.C. The problem is that claims about where these cities are the rattiest are being based on the public records of calls…

Since it’s the first name on anyone’s lips, Buick sales in China are pretty good. I nearly wrote that GM claimed 225,313 sales over the past year, almost as many as the popular Wuling (262,214 units), whose microvan everyone drives outside the cities. I had those figures wrong; they were for just one financial…

I guess I have to spell it out. I never said they deleted the handbrake exactly 11 years ago, just if you go back to 11 years ago, the average age of the cars today, they already had it deleted. Now, if you take the that time point where already the vast majority of cars lacked a handbrake and add the area under the…