2016 Mercedes E wagon (w213)

“Mall Terrain”

The Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro is an offroad package, of course the truck is taller, its a 4x4 etc. My last Toyota Tacoma was a 2008, and at least then, the 2x4 non-TRD models were significantly lower and rode on smaller wheels than the 4x4 or TRD models... sigh, I’m having trouble finding the bed height for that base…

We rented a Chrysler Pacifica once in Hawaii... not the current one, the earlier one that was a sort of luxury minivan/wagon thing with quad captains chairs. There were SO many buttons on the dashboard and drivers door that in the week we had it, I never figured out what half of them did, and I was a computer engineer…

my wife has a 2016 (major european brand) car, the canbus that goes to the headlight power modules isn’t the same canbus that goes to the engine or security & ignition switch module. There’s a chassis module between these different canbuses, but it only forwards messages to where they belong, there’s no way a headlight…

AFAIK, its anything above 26000 lbs GVWR, whether RV or truck or what.

Gonna hate it when they ban my 2002 F250 7.3 diesel. Thing has been a workhorse these past 10 years, pulling my little fiberglass camp trailer, plus all my amateur astronomy gear all over the west.

A older used Maybach could be one of the worst car purchases ever.

On a 12 year old 150K mercedes, I would want to see ALL maintenance in a highly detailed and well organized folder *AND* I would insist on a full PPI (Pre Purchase Inspection) by a qualified Mercedes indepedent shop.   Sadly these newer Mercedes are just too much of rolling computer networks, and I don’t think they…

just wait til you need to repair something unusual. The Korean manufacturers across the board don’t seem to want to supply replacement parts for anything other than ordinary service items. Doesn’t matter if its cars, appliances, electronics.

its not the former cars former owners channel, its a bomb channel the former cars former owner invited to do this.

Ambulance engines tend to have *REALLY* high idling hours, as my son woefully discovered after buying a surplus ambulance from a small town fire department.   His was built on a Chevy 3500 4x4 with the venerable 6.5 Detroit Diesel, he had a LOT of engine problems due to those very high idling hours, although it only…

Military vehicles like this are incredibly hot and noisy and uncomfortable to drive or ride in. cab forward vehicles like this, that huge cummins diesel is right under/between the front seats.

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