Tranny Died
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I was headed to the Mercedes dealership to get a special order part (due to the top being broken, yet again), and I took a corner, stepped on the gas and the car did nothing be rev like it was in Neutral. I had to coast in to a parking lot where I tried to put it back in park, and then in drive again... nothing. So i turned the car off, turned back on and it KIND of worked, enough to get to the dealership (wouldn't shift gears like normal, etc...).
They inform me that basically the transmission is done for... luckly under warranty...
but damn, this car has been in the shop more then I can remember... the center console has broken like 6 times (literally), the windows keep getting fucked up and not sealing properly, the top's broken twice, the tranny went out, there was some fucked up software that had to be replaced, the stereo's gone out twice (shorts in the wiring)... there's more but i'm forgetting.
I haven't had much better luck with the BMW. Moral of the story is... if your going to buy a Euro car, get one with a warranty or your fucked.
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wish you had the spider back??
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Dont buy anymore BMW's. Simple
Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car
Oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car.
Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall
Torque is how far you take the wall with you -
weshole;177010 wrote:
Dude, it was his Benz transmission that went. But both are German.My bad.....my bad......dont buy anymore Benz either.
Understeer is when you hit the wall with the front of the car
Oversteer is when you hit the wall with the rear of the car.
Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall
Torque is how far you take the wall with you -
thats shitty....or just dont buy cars that are the bottom of the line
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listen to consumer reports, German cars are the worst for reliability and are in the shop more than any others. Jims cars are proof of this.
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torbs;177017 wrote:
my honda hasn't given me any problems since I've owned it besides autozones fuckup...i heart my hondas heheShit I've had mine for just over a month and had to dump $1400 into it.
The only German cars I'd ever buy are VW and Audi. My uncle in California has owned all kinds of Benz's and BMW's and he's had problems with every one of them, so he bought himself and his wife a couple Porsche's instead.
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Jim;177100 wrote:
hahahaGood luck with VW or Audi... they are worse then BMW or Mercedes!
Everyone I've known that's had German cars has been really satisfied with VW and Audi, way more so than BMW or Mercedes. They haven't had any major problems at all. Their reliability isn't ranked very high, but I haven't personally known of anyone with any huge issues unless they beat the piss out of them. Of all the bad things I've heard about German cars, the vast majority of them have been about Mercedes being cheaply made and literally falling apart.
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