I mended something!

"sm70- why not Duesenberg?" (sm70-whynotduesenberg) 02/16/2015 at 17:54 • Filed to: of happenings

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Okay, barely. My car went into the shop today to get an oil change and a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! When I went to pick up my car, I very briefly got the chance to poke around the owner's car, a 2007-ish Mercedes G500. It's hard not to be cliché with this car, because Panzer is really the only nickname I can come up with for it (and here we go again). Also, it should be noted that while we know very little about Fort Knox, we can assume the main vault is sealed with the door off of a G-Wagon. The solidity and German-ness of closing that door was incredible. Funny, because the guy who works on cars like this for a living said it was a complete money pit.

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Anyhow, I asked him while it was there if he could fix the only electronic toy not working on my car, which is amazing considering it's a 12 year old Audi with 12 year old Audi electronics. That one part was the power rear sunshade, the single least useful feature on the car. He came to the conclusion that the motor worked fine, but that when it tucked away it got caught under its own cover-hole in the rear hat shelf. He advised me to fiddle with it and see what worked. I ended up clipping one of those !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! to the rim of the gap, so the blind could go down and sit flush with the shelf, but not disappear under it. And it worked!

So, for a grand total of $0, I managed to give myself a working rear shade, and inadvertently also probably gave myself the only D2 A8 with every electronic component functioning.

Alex B > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 02/16/2015 at 17:58

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Rear sun shades are amazing.

OPPOsaurus WRX > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 02/16/2015 at 18:08

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nice flex in the background

jkm7680 > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 02/16/2015 at 18:08

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Dat G-Wagen. Did you open the doors and close them again for like an hour straight?

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 02/16/2015 at 18:10

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sounds like a good mechanic, if this was cutomer sevis you would have got a whole new shade and rear parcel shelf

WesBarton89 - The Way to Santa Fe > Alex B 02/16/2015 at 18:11

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Yes, they are. The Infiniti I bought has one, but it's off track and needs to be fixed, but it is a cool, if ultimately useless, feature.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > OPPOsaurus WRX 02/16/2015 at 18:12

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That would be my dad's.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > jkm7680 02/16/2015 at 18:13

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I only got like 3 minutes, but yeah, several times.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard 02/16/2015 at 18:13

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So far, he's been an excellent mechanic, as well as a dealer (he's who we bought the car from).

Your boy, BJR > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 02/16/2015 at 18:31

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Something something nazis are bad something something.......aaah fuck it.

Anyway, that sucks, escalade is better, source: Jalopnik.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Your boy, BJR 02/16/2015 at 18:39

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I seem to recall you once recently called Jalopnik "pure yella journalism" or something like that.

OPPOsaurus WRX > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 02/16/2015 at 18:43

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How's he like it.? That's on the top of my last for my wive's next car (not for a few years) my wife wants a sienna or some shit

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > OPPOsaurus WRX 02/16/2015 at 18:45

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He really likes it, but it's got 140k miles and it may be time to replace it soon.

Your boy, BJR > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 02/16/2015 at 18:52

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Even a blind squirrel gets a nut sometimes.

jkm7680 > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 02/16/2015 at 18:54

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Hnghhhh, so clicky.

Vicente Esteve > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 02/16/2015 at 20:52

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Nicely done.

sm70- why not Duesenberg? > Vicente Esteve 02/16/2015 at 21:43

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Vicente Esteve > sm70- why not Duesenberg? 02/16/2015 at 21:47

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