The real question is where - to a salvage yard, or a specialist Mercedes shop on the other side of town...
I've reached the end of the repairs it's reasonable for me to make. I replaced the primer pump last week (tools and the new part below) - and that didn't help one bit...
from my reading and research - I believe it's the Injection Pump - which is not something I should be doing... not least of which is because nobody gives good instructions on how (it seems the forums presume, if you're doing this repair you already know how), and because there's plenty of horror stories of people who mess with the IP, get their car started and then can't turn it off, you get a "run away" engine - and things catch fire, or seize, or both...
so this leaves me with two options. Sell it for (a very meager) salvage and essentially lose the $2,000 that I've already put into the car.
Or spent $100 to have her towed and $200 just for the diagnostic - so they can tell me they need to do $1,200+ worth of work, at which point my fixed car will barely be worth $2,000... after putting about $3,500 into her.
Either way she'll be gone from our garage in two weeks - and I'm out at least $1,500... and a lot of emotional energy... and the windows still won't roll down.
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4 comments:
Oh no! That's terrible news.
What will become of this blog?
It will become even less focused and interesting than it is right now(???).
Which - is sort of saying something...
I'm glad to hear it. Don't give it up. My original blog was supposed to be a "hello to all those back home" kind of thing that morphed into a bike blog that morphed into ... well ... these things tend to take on a life of their own.
I am still so proud of what you have accomplished so far!
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