alextrat1966

That's the problem you are facing with 1)... no matter how many clauses you add, you can still be in trouble. So you should only do this with a big, financially healthy and reputable real estate firm, (but even this doesn't mean they won't go belly up in the future).

Sorry that people don't tell you what you would like to hear. Sometimes it just so happens that it differs from reality. Destroying your engine because you think putting petrol in the tank is all it's needed to run a car, has no forgiveness. And this comes from someone whose dad not so long ago destroyed a beautiful Mercedes OM642 engine, again for not checking the oil level... If you wanna go defensive and think people have something against you, you're only fooling yourself then, oh and your wallet! cuz she's the one becoming thinner every time you "forget" to check the oil level. Regardless of whether the dealer will/will not pay for the repairs, and regardless of whether the engine was/wasn't low on oil. I hope this serves as a lesson for OP, and he starts checking his oil at the very least once a month from now on.

20km is way too much for an engine which has been drained to run. At this point is metal grinding metal..... it may idle for 30 minutes, but the moment you put load on the engine (driving), it will be gone within seconds.

Look under the hood and tell me what you see ????

Sadly, this is more than just liver disease. The report mentions a relatively huge arterial enhancing mass in the liver .(7.2x7.4x8.3-cm) This is just a technical way of saying "cancer". His liver will never recover from this, and it is likely that the cancer either has either spread from somewhere else to the liver, OR has spread from the liver to somewhere else... Sadly, probably terminal.

Insurance can't reverse death. Be careful, motorbikes are very dangerous here. Save a bit more money and rent a car instead.

The app itself is terrible. But it does the job. You can talk on the phone with a doctor and get your prescription sent to you.

Yes, surely if you top it up it will last longer than if you don't. But still the damage is already done. It's like a person with terminal cancer, no matter what treatments you do, you are only gaining time...

Yes sure, hence why the driver of the Ibiza died. But that still doesn't mean it's nothing for the Benz. The fact that after such an impact at those speeds there was just about enough space in the passenger compartment tells a lot. Don't know, but I've heard from EMTs that European cars do much better than Japanese and specially that Americans. I am a Mercedes fanboy so to speak, but even if I didn't buy Mercedes, I'd buy Volvo or something European.

Your theory doesn't meet reality. Quite a lot of people have survived frontal impacts at expressway speeds. A friend of mine while drunk driving crashed heads on at 152km/h with his Mercedes R320 against a Seat Ibiza which was traveling at 117km/h. Survived after 3 months in the ICU. (The guy in the Ibiza died on the spot). The amount of G forces the human body can take for fractions of a second is extraordinary, sometimes as high as 200G without major injuries! And so protecting the passenger compartment is critical! Any EMT would tell you cutting someone off a Mercedes/BMW takes three times more than if it were a Japanese car, this means the firewall in German cars is stronger than Japanese; which also matches the fact that Japanese cars are more light weight.

If my theory about oil starvation is correct, the engine would have been knocking for quite some time (rod knock). But rod knock is a sound that is not easy to tell by someone who is not very experienced with engines, so you may not have realized, specially if you never opened the bonnet! It's impossible to tell rod knock from the inside. Other than that, I wouldn't expect serious rattling, when a bearing breaks or spun suddenly the crankshaft is faced with an enormous resistance, so the engine starts running rough and dying out til it finally dies seized solid (or very very hard to move).

Guys don't be donkeys here... If the dealer had drained the oil and not added new one, that engine wouldn't have lasted more than 2-3 km before completely seizing. If maintenance had been neglected by the owner, and the engine had be running low on oil, the damage was already done. It made no difference whether the dealer topped it up on Friday. If the engine seized by Monday, it means oil starvation damage by Friday was already too severe... - Scored cylinders. - Scored cams. - Scored bearings (I suspect this is what happened, due to oil starvation the bearings wore over time till one of them was too thin and either broke or spun seizing the engine). I know looking for blame on others, or saying Thais bad is the easy way out. But the only one to be blamed here is the owner. The dealer did nothing wrong. Even if they had added oil on Friday, that engine was mortally damaged.

I am afraid NCAP is just a powerful marketing tool used by manufacturers, but nothing more than that. They test at speeds of 60km/h. Your chances of surviving a crash at 60km/h stand pretty high even with an old and insecure (compared to today's standards) vehicle. What we are really interested in is crashes at expressways speeds (>90km/h)... And here is where you will find Mercedes are far safer than many Japanese cars.