Re: Re: Re: Re: 1959white mustang truck

Posted by Axel on December 09, 2006 at 09:59:27 from (84.187.249.212):

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: 1959white mustang truck posted by Okie on December 08, 2006 at 02:37:54:

Hi Okie, thank you
oh yes dependable and tough like our Magirus, but after working with it all day the driver was at his physical end. So we looked up to the Mercedes Trucks of this time, because they were watercooled, not so loud, had shockabsorbers and longer springs and a synchron shift. So the Magirus would have last longer if there could be found a driver who would like to drive it. So the Mercedes from the 50s and 60s still run because they are easier to drive.
Nice that you think mercedes are pretty rugged and capable, but sorry times have changed, since about 1995 the earlier quality made products were displaced by cheaper massproducts. For example the Line-Diesel-Injection-Pump was more and more displaced by a cheaper Distributor-Injction-Pump, lot of plastics came and so on.
There is a long list of such things and today the modern trucks in cold winter must be set overnight into the garage because of electronical problems/frozen condensewater....
We in Germany look up to your nice US-pickups and trucks and whished you would have produced them ,more as Diesels and if - with e tinier one.
Converting them to Diesels is mostly not possible because of missing environmet-certificate, an petrol is expensive and the consumption to high.
Hope my English is good enough.
Axel, 1974 Mercedes LP 608 COE and 1978 LP813 COE...

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