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Old 12-01-09, 03:14 PM
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looks to me like the front door is not shut, which is why BOTH windows have moved aside a little. i don't think this is a problem.
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Originally Posted by bitkahuna
looks to me like the front door is not shut, which is why BOTH windows have moved aside a little. i don't think this is a problem.
Agree.
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Old 12-01-09, 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by I8ABMR
are they Fing kidding. I cant believe the price tags on their new cars. I dont know how they move them when they have **** like this going on. Mercedes is a joke. No wonder that even their most expensive sedans lose their value like old news
Way to exaggerate over a standard feature . . I have a Mercedes and love it.
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Old 12-01-09, 06:09 PM
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Originally Posted by I8ABMR
are they Fing kidding. I cant believe the price tags on their new cars.
you do know the new E class is LESS expensive than the hugely successful last model.

I dont know how they move them when they have **** like this going on.
there is no spoon.

Mercedes is a joke.
rofl.
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Old 12-01-09, 06:13 PM
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Wow, we have learned nothing as usual. lol.
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Old 12-01-09, 06:30 PM
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Mercedes makes nice cars but nobody can deny the fact that the reliability rankings for the cars have been poor over the last 10-15 years. They are getting better, but for the money it should be better in terms of keeping the owner away from the service department. You don't find as many repeat Benz customers as you used to.
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Old 12-01-09, 06:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Sash
Way to exaggerate over a standard feature . . I have a Mercedes and love it.
its still a new 09 . Wait 4-5 years. The electrical gremlins are coming.

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Old 12-01-09, 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by I8ABMR
its still a new 09 . Wait 4-5 years. The electrical gremlins are coming.
Actually most of the electric gremlins of the dark days of Mercedes (2000-2007) happened in the first year of ownership, and then they just kept repeating over and over and over... No fun.
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Old 12-02-09, 05:55 AM
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Originally Posted by bitkahuna
looks to me like the front door is not shut, which is why BOTH windows have moved aside a little. i don't think this is a problem.
So does the window row down or tilt out when the door is open. If it tilts out, that would take another mechanism to do that, but then MB is known for over-complicating their designs anyways.
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Originally Posted by spwolf
those windows are all the way up... what exactly is there that you like?
Problem is that people are passing judgement on something that they know nothing about. Typical. If you every own a Mercedes you would know that alot their cars perform that way.
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Mercedes builds their vehicles to a standard & not a price point. They make very solid vehicles.
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Old 12-02-09, 06:49 AM
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Mercedes builds their vehicles to a standard & not a price point. They make very solid vehicles.
U work for their marketing department?
 
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Originally Posted by DASHOCKER
Mercedes builds their vehicles to a standard & not a price point. They make very solid vehicles.
Is that why they use standard Vinyl seat and not leather
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Originally Posted by rogers2
Problem is that people are passing judgement on something that they know nothing about. Typical.
Yes and we expect that on the internet, nothing new.
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"Quote:
Originally Posted by DASHOCKER
Mercedes builds their vehicles to a standard & not a price point. They make very solid vehicles.

U work for their marketing department?"

lol. But behind the scenes new Mercedes models are enduring far more relaibility and durability testing to insure quality, because Mercedes knows their weaknesses of the past several years are well documented.
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