From owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Mon Sep 11 09:16:06 2006 From: diesel-benz-digest diesel-benz-digest Monday, September 11 2006 Volume 01 : Number 2239 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles Derick Amburgey Digest Coordinator Contents: RE: [db] John's gonna love this one... RE: [db] John's gonna love this one... [db] FW: Re: [JGC] Gas mileage/MB diesel (fwd) 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: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 23:41:40 -0400 From: "FreddyP" Subject: RE: [db] John's gonna love this one... There's a story here! ;-) - -----Original Message----- http://tinyurl.com/s9e35 Mike Frank ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 21:00:46 -0700 (PDT) From: john Subject: RE: [db] John's gonna love this one... oh yeah... this was on ebay a few weeks ago... the bidding was in the 5k range, I bid 6k... got outbid by a few hundred bucks, auction ended, no big deal... then I get a spoofed 2nd chance offer... thought I was going to get it... yeah, right... then the seller relisted it at 15k. twice now... that thing has a fiberglass tub... it is a low mileage perkins and nice, but still... john On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, FreddyP wrote: >-->There's a story here! ;-) >--> >-->-----Original Message----- >--> >--> >--> >-->http://tinyurl.com/s9e35 >--> >-->Mike Frank >--> ---- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** http://JohnMeister.com **** http://wagoneers.com ** Snohomish, Washington USA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold ** http://freegift.net *** http://greatcom.org/laws/languages.html ** - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:15:02 -0700 (PDT) From: john Subject: [db] FW: Re: [JGC] Gas mileage/MB diesel (fwd) - ----Original Message Follows---- From: Tuckerman Moss Reply-To: Jeep_Grand_Cherokee-at-yahoogroups.com Karl, The 2.7L CRD replaced the Chrysler 3.2L CRD on all European Grand Cherokees in 2002 - or so I have been lead to believe, A neighbor owned both engine versions and commented that the performance of the newer, smaller MB engine was like night and day it was so much peppier. Mine has Quadra Drive II and a four speed auto. All pretty much standard for all European versions. Regards, Tuck On Sep 10, 2006, at 5:00 PM, Karl wrote: >Hello Tuck, >Is the MB engine a conversion or was it offered as stock in the UK? >If stock, do you know what years, transmissions were used. >I appreciate your help. > Thanks, Karl >----- Original Message ----- >From: Mark McElhinny >To: Jeep_Grand_Cherokee-at-yahoogroups.com >Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 10:48 AM >Subject: Re: [JGC] Re: Gas mileage > >Mark >Tuckerman Moss wrote: >You guys may not find this very interesting but my British 2003 GC with the >Mercedes 2.7 diesel engine gets 28mpg (that's US gallon, mind you, not >imperial) all the time. Of course it still costs me $140 to fill it up. >Cheers, Tuck > ------------------------------ End of diesel-benz-digest V1 #2239 **********************************