OPINION:Quality and Passion Declining in European Automakers

I think you mean in the front seat of the Buick...

 

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I went to the cinema yesterday. There was a poster up advertising
vacancies, and included at the bottom was a list of attributes they'd
like in a toilet cleaner. And yes "A passion for films" was there on the
list.

I'd have thought a passion for cleaning the bogs would be more useful.

 

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Mine's got a cupholder. I pass the cup to the wife and say "Hold that".

 

LMAO

Wolfgang

 

Unfortunately, you might have just confirmed one: driving at 75mph, while
unable to see anything but a 1 litre bottle of water. I'll bow to your
superior knowledge about crash survivability of European cars... ;o)

On the hydration front, I personally find a Camelbak much easier - just hang
it from the head restraint mounts.

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Hairy One Kenobi

Disclaimer: the opinions expressed in this opinion do not necessarily
reflect the opinions of the highly-opinionated person expressing the opinion
in the first place. So there!

 

Getting OT, visitors to Arizona too often die because they don't feel bad.
Dehydration leads to heat stroke - a visiting Briton died of heat stroke in
the Grand Canyon about a week ago apparently because it wasn't very hot and
he thought there would be some warning. There is none at all. Our retired
unit secretary was walking home from her overheated car when heat stroke got
her. She reported she was striding along, "feeling great" as she described
it, and the next thing she knew she was in the bathtub and her husband was
filling it with cold water. She was lucky - a few years ago in Phoenix a
bicyclist was talking to EMTs because he was weak and cramping, then heat
stroke set in. The EMTs couldn't save him even though they were right there
when it started.

The effects of dehydration are worst outside the car, but the dehydration
itself often comes from not keeping up while in the car. Changing a flat
tire when already dehydrated is bad news. If you are coming to arid country
learn the cardinal rules of survival: drink before you are thirsty, and stay
in the shade as much as possible. You can live without A/C (I didn't use it
when the temp was 50C about 5 years ago), but dehydration will kill you in
minutes without warning. You don't need a cupholder if you use bottled
water, but not drinking is inviting sudden death.

Mike (a desert rat for 34 years)

 

And how does a liter bottle in a Z4 holder obstruct vision?

Tom

 

Michael Pardee wrote:

You can live without A/C (I didn't use it

Slight warp of thread: Same goes for the windchill factor. A lot of
people doesn't appreciate how cold it really is before it is too late. A
useful demonstration might be to hold a piece of raw meat into the wind
and show people how fast it deepfreezes....

 

Isn't English a strange language -- you can string two 'had had''s together
and have it make sense.

M

 

LOL.

That's the way I do it, too. If I'm alone, I just don't drink anything
until I stop for fuel, or to off-load what I drank before.

Maybe it's because I never feel comfortable doing anything but
*driving* when I'm behind the wheel. Eating, drinking, reading,
chatting on the cell, shaving, etc. - I'll leave all that to other
folks.

I know, it's weird to hear that from an American. But I guess I'm
weird in actually enjoying the driving. Maybe if I had a Honda or a
Toyota, I'd be so bored as to need to do something else while driving,
just to stay awake.

E.P. "Cupholders? We don't need no steenkeeng cupholders..."

 

But not aft

 

When you drink it.

 

Straw

 

Only if you forget to slightly rotate your head.

 

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Ann, while Bob had had "had", had had "had had". "Had had" had had a
better effect on the teacher.

 

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Makes you wonder how Jimmy Durante or Jamie Farr (Corporal Klinger) managed.

 

For fellow Mercedes owners
http://www.mercedes-benz-usa.com

http://www.mercedesproblems.com.ar ,this one is quite interesting !

 

ROTFL .... the main complaint my wife has re our 300E

guenter

 

But had had had not made sense, what then? ;-)

Cheers,
WS

 

In the UK the Merc-owned garages in the metro areas (London, Birmingham,
Manchester) are offering free MoT tests (the annual compulsory
roadworthiness test for cars 3+ years old). This year did our 2001 CLK Cab
and 1993 190E. The 15-min drive is well worth it, and it's done while you
wait if you ask for an appointment. In my case (Park Royal, West London) it
is not actually done by Merc but by a nearby official test station, so I
went straight there.

Saves GBP 41/USD 70...

Great wheeze to drag clients back from the independents. Last year an
independent charged me -- for the 190E -- the mandatory test fee plus GBP 20
(USD 35) labour that was never properly specified.

In the UK I think Merc has recognised the workshop problem and is doing
something about it, though I have personally never experienced sustained
dire service in all the years I have had Mercs.

DAS

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