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Did the math with exchange, price NY vs ontario only 40 cents a gallon (usually over 1 cheaper) they're definitely raising it fast over there

Kind of a recap...lots to do on former plumbers van...been doing Canada shorties (they pay better, what happened to US rates :D) lost whole last week over the botched rear seals, but seems fixed...nice drive from Toronto to Kanata yesterday, went back roads after the 8 am pickup turned into...

Our next family car will be a Benz. If I'm impressed with a cargo van I'll be blown away by an S-class, even 15 years old....3 grand or less here...

Swapping in a post 2007 at 350000 thanks guys :D

Thanks. I'll start working on my reserve fund o_O

Did it give any warning? I don't want to be stuck far from home, my former dodge announced its failures, I just ignored it

No comment on weight. This one I won't have to fill up the passenger seat middle and dashboard with freight. On that subject, I scaled at an actual weigh station, and rounded up to 5500 so I can take 3050 in a long and tall... They fixed it (again) couldn't tell me why it happened, they used a...

Great tip on parts!...hoping to not need gears, took only a squirt out of the bottle to top up, I noticed it quickly...they either forgot the seals or didn't torque the bearing nuts to 369 they told me it took a whole day (no special tools on hand?)

Terse reply. :D thanks for the vote on rearends being good, no experience with these yet . . . I'll continue to slow down just enough for comfort lest I get rear-ended by T.O. drivers. . . rearend was fine before they touched it I just want people to do what they say they are going to been...

Spent some quality time with the sprinter service manual. Only way I can see them failing is wrong seals or installed wrong, I know they replaced them, the used ones were in the box of old parts I got back . . . hope the bearings actually were OK after they pressed them on and off that might do...

Are they fairly strong? Do I need to slow down for railroad tracks? Trying to figure out how a shop could change backing plates and screw up the seals... I could have done it at the side of the road and it would have been fine... Never had an issue with leaking axle seals even at a million miles...

Almost makes me want to buy a Quattro again for a project car. You can still see them under tarps throughout my area (almost, but not quite :D)

Driving the couch to bed again . . . for those in that situation, I present to you "Big Mac vs molten copper" As pointless as my wasted time due to a shops botched van repair

I don't know about the US but if I stay under 10000 in Canada I could hang a sign and put a hundred vans on the road tomorrow...

:JC-hysterical:

I'm thinkin now it's empty ride comfort. My other vans, potholes when empty sounded like a sledgehammer on a barrel, white knuckle waiting for wheels to fly off...no matter how long I was driving the fear factor was pretty energizing (Edit: based on fact, I've had too lower balljoint...

I just do my best and let dispatch argue. You're not going to change what anybody thinks, if they haven't done what we do, they don't get it. Today I was on a "MUST BE THERE BY 8 AM!" And I waited 30 min for it to load because of shift change, and it was sent to a wrong address, different town...

Tool is excellent. Able to read general emissions (egr) as well as specific MB modules. Warning: not user friendly, most advanced functions like communicating with TCM are found thru selecting a different mercedes SUV not available under the sprinter setting. It was able to clear a HZR module...

Mine clicks when I shut down, is that normal... its loud and regular, but several seconds between clicks..

Competition is good. More choices for me (bout 10 years from now)