Date:         Fri, 26 Aug 2016 07:22:55 -0700
Reply-To:     Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Friday nvc: Sprinters
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"a few hrs old". Should read "few years old"

On Aug 26, 2016 7:21 AM, "Don Hanson" <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:

> Just had two Sprinter people visiting, both with VERY negative experiences
> with their Sprinters...one less than a year old and one a few hrs old.  The
> older one's owner was a Vanagon owner before the Sprinter, which he says he
> drives most of the time in "limp home mode" because the nearest dealer is
> over an hour each way and it  costs over $300 to have them diagnose
> whatever its problems are each time...he hates it.   The other family has
> one the recently retired Vetinarian bought for camping and mountain
> biking...They spent last winter in Arizona, where Sprinters are
> rampant...He, too, hates his...it is now in need of another
> computer...$3k...and of course that MUST be installed by the dealer.  My
> brother in law also got one maybe 3 yrs ago...at least he has  close
> dealers, him being in Orange county CA...His, according to him, his own
> Sprinter has spent more time at the dealership than on his street.  He
> hates it, too.
>   Ok, so I've been intrigued by those, but I got hints they are expensive
> to run and unreliable...But when we got talking...two real owners and one
> close relative to another owner... I got it from actual owners(except for
> the brother in law). They seem to be hated...and usually people can justify
> all kinds of faults in a vehicle they bought... but these folks went OFF!
> on how awful their Sprinters are... Jay even offered his diesel automatic
> straight across for my 84 tintop...
>    So whoever was recently posting about changing to a Sprinter.... you
> may want to talk to some owners of them first.  3for3, that's pretty
> negative for a vehicle... I was surprised..
>