From: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net (diesel-benz-digest) To: diesel-benz-digest-at-krusty-motorsports.com Subject: diesel-benz-digest V1 #24 Reply-To: diesel-benz-at-digest.net Sender: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Errors-To: owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Precedence: bulk diesel-benz-digest Monday, September 14 1998 Volume 01 : Number 024 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles John Meister Digest Coordinator Contents: Re: Diesel Prices Re: Advice on 300E's krusty & legal issues, part 3 Diesel Benz Digest Home Page: http://www.digest.net/diesel-benz/ Send submissions to diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Send administrative requests to diesel-benz-digest-request-at-digest.net To unsubscribe, include the word unsubscribe by itself in the body of the message, unless you are sending the request from a different address than the one that appears on the list. Include the word help in a message to stag-digest-request to get a list of other majordomo commands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 21:58:52 -0700 From: john meister Subject: Re: Diesel Prices Right on. I've been using Pacific Pride for years... Problem is I was dieseless for about 3 years and forgot my combinations, been meaning to call them up... :) They are convenient, and the fuel is top rate, you'll see a lot of big rigs there... I've gone from Seattle to SanDiego, and over to Vegas stopping exclusively at Pacific Pride locations... Then when I was in Reno I tanked up downtown and ran into bum fuel, the first time ever... Thanx for the memory jogger. In fact, the more you buy, the lower the price, and the faster you pay, the lower the price... However, the mileage thing can be quite humorous if you have more than one Diesel vehicle... or if you fuel up at a Shell or Texaco in between... :) from 3 mpg to 600mpg... :) later, john At 03:57 AM 9/8/98 PDT, Daniel A Jacobs wrote: >If you want to try to see if you can save a little money on diesel, try >getting an account with pacific pride or a similar commercial type fuel >station. Many of the stations have nothing more than fuel pumps and an >oil dispenser, but here's an example of what I'm dealing with in >Vancouver, WA > >Advertised price, texaco down the street from my house- $1.23.9 >advertised price, space age gas station, a little further down >street-$1.22.9 >Pacific pride near where I work-not advertised price according to monthly >bill-$1.17.9 > >Plus Pacific pride will do the math to show you your MPG and miles driven >if you take the time to enter your odometer when you turn on a pump. A >few are connected with truck stops or have a minute mart nearby, but most >are stuck out on a street corner or behind someplace and have little >extras, hence the cheaper price. I would suggest looking into this >alternative. > >By the way, just about all of them are open 24 hrs, which is nice if >traveling through a 17 hr town. > >Dan >kc7nol-at-juno.com > >On Wed, 26 Aug 1998 20:18:07 -0700 john please)> writes: >>Curious about pricing nationwide. >> >>Off I-5, 164th / Mill Creek - Lynnwood, Washington, >> >>Texaco $1.199 >>Shell $1.159 > > >_____________________________________________________________________ >You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. >Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com >Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] > > - ---------------------------------------------- | john-at-virtual-cafe.com | | http://www.virtual-cafe.com/~john | | jesus - don't leave life without him... | - ---------------------------------------------- | Diesel Benz, Full Size Jeeps and xj's... | | found on http://www.digest.net | - ---------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 16:00:58 -0700 From: john meister Subject: Re: Advice on 300E's At 04:59 PM 9/13/98 -0400, Paul A. Shelton wrote: >John, Please suppress your shock! HA! Yeah, in a moment of weakness I >test drove some 300E's (91, 88, 89). They were pretty nice. I am >intimidated by the complexity of these things, however. I mean a 78 >240D is almost agricultural, and even I can work on it. I think I will >probably just plod along in the old Panzer and save my pennies for a >late sixties 280SE Coupe - a work of art to covet. Anyway, I was hoping >for some insight on the reliability/integrity of 300E's in comparison to >our diesels. >Thanks! Paul I was a little bit intimidated by the 300 SDL's at first too... And the heater controls in my 81 300D... Just got to look at things for a while and they start to make sense. :) Looking at the 75 300D and my 81 300D we were amazed at how much easier the newer one was to work on. Suspect the newer ones will be ok to work on as well. I saw a 300E today, nice cars, but it had the wrong letter on the back for me... :) should have been a D. :) later, john - ---------------------------------------------- | john-at-virtual-cafe.com | | http://www.virtual-cafe.com/~john | | jesus - don't leave life without him... | - ---------------------------------------------- | Diesel Benz, Full Size Jeeps and xj's... | | found on http://www.digest.net | - ---------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 10:00:08 -0400 From: Richard Welty Subject: krusty & legal issues, part 3 as i said in an earlier posting, i am now pretty happy with the legal advice i'm getting. a letter as been sent giving a reply to the one i received on september 8th. it is quite concievable that this will all go away now (for krusty and me at least). it's a little hard to say, as often when people back down on these things you simply never hear from them again; thus, there will probably not be a definable moment at which i can say "it's over" -- although if they don't back down, there will certainly be a moment at which i can say "nuts, it's not over". right now it would be a really, really bad idea for me to identify the particular postings that started this and the person who originated the complaint. there may never be a good time to make this identification. at the moment, krusty's legal bills amount to less than $150 (i think they're going to be about $120, but i've not seen the actual bill yet.) i don't think there's a need to start a "krusty legal defense fund", but i may well make another request for help keeping things going (i've already made such a request on the bmw-digest, but i've not yet mentioned this on the other lists.) if so, this will appear in another, separate posting. one of the other things that will be happening "real soon now" is that krusty is going to be converted from a simple d/b/a into a LLC; many have suggested this and i've been pondering it myself for a little while now. cheers, richard ------------------------------ End of diesel-benz-digest V1 #24 ********************************