For the record, I accidentally wrote “Oil Fitler” in my initial draft, and I’m not sure why I changed it given how badly this filter wants to ruin lives.

add -carvana to your search, it will remove 98% of their ads. Occasionally one slips by, but it makes it useable. You can also do the same thing in autotempest, which is what anyone looking for a car should be using anyway.

Might have been a bit strong on that one. My bad.

But yeah, customers generally think the entire vehicle is made by Ford. (Ford, of course, realizes this).

Upon arriving at Chrysler as a young enginerd, I myself was surprised by just how much of vehicle development is “farmed out.”

This is nifty, no doubt.

We ran a small fleet of city buses with the Series 50. It was the only bus engine in our fleet that I’ve ever seen fail outright.

In 98 degree weather, foot to the floor and A/C running I got 7.5 mpg. I wanted more, but happy it’s not less. Fuel tank is a generous 125 gallons and yes, it’s painful to fill it up from empty!

Smoke (excess) may be related to a bad injector(s). That was common on the truck fleet were I worked decades(?) eons(!) ago. The oil analysis will be key for the engine internals. Here’s hoping good luck. Great project, wheelchair access is a big plus.

nah foo! Twas written on the the stone many solstice ago in the OPPO era of Mercedes’ greatness. 

Overall, yes, but the school bus does enjoy an advantage in ground clearance, depending on how rugged your camping gets.

What kind of fuel mileage does it get? How big is the fuel tank? Do both of the wipers (have to) run at the same speed?  Is it pretty quiet on the highway with the engine in the back?  Do you kneel the bus to let yourself out (at a fuel stop)?

Wow..... all of the wows! Long time no talk Mercedes. I always knew rockstar status was headed your way but dayum foo! Absolutely incredible stuff haha. All hail the Jalop Queen!

The last two Demons to sell on BAT were basically undriven and went for between $142-$155k, so who knows.

It has been a long time for sure!

Didn’t read the article, but I’m assuming copyright infringement filed by representatives for Easter Island?

Hertz has been a trash company for a long time now, but it was a story about how they treated my mother that actually made stop dealing with them completely.

Man, these things are amazing - a device I only recently discovered.

For the record, I own an Ozone Generator, like this:

Recently had a Hertz rental due to a car accident. The first FOUR cars they attempted to give us reeked of smoke. After the fourth car they didn’t have any other vehicle in a 60 mile radius to transfer in so we had to deal with it for a day, when we came back the next morning to switch the car out...they tried to…

dude, I walk construction sites from time to time (work in the Architecture field) and I paranoid as hell about stuff getting dropped on me.

this story gave me the damn shakes just thinking about it.

Hard hats are on construction sites because someone overhead can drop something, like a hammer or a bolt. No one should be working overhead in a factory.