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Revived thread. I'm getting arm pump from driving my sprinter...can take the hands off the wheel and it drives by itself for about 15 min on the straights...is my rack gone, or could LHM reduce power enough to affect steering?

Confirmed. 21 MPG at 75 mph loaded, last trip 24.5...difference between US and Canada only 40 cents a gallon right now...back burner project, last 4 years been getting 15 mpg at best, so I had no idea of the sprinter, spare gas cans seem better like others said... Also scaled at 5500 on MTO...

My carrier explained that the FSC went to other methods of transit in the chain eg. Rail and air...good excuse but why on my portion not 100 percent...anyway I don't see what I get paid for a month, saves me from pulling my hair out like the rest of you...im good with their minimum per mile so I...

Did the math with exchange, price NY vs ontario only 40 cents a gallon (usually over 1 cheaper) they're definitely raising it fast over there

Kind of a recap...lots to do on former plumbers van...been doing Canada shorties (they pay better, what happened to US rates :D) lost whole last week over the botched rear seals, but seems fixed...nice drive from Toronto to Kanata yesterday, went back roads after the 8 am pickup turned into...

Our next family car will be a Benz. If I'm impressed with a cargo van I'll be blown away by an S-class, even 15 years old....3 grand or less here...

Swapping in a post 2007 at 350000 thanks guys :D

Thanks. I'll start working on my reserve fund o_O

Did it give any warning? I don't want to be stuck far from home, my former dodge announced its failures, I just ignored it

No comment on weight. This one I won't have to fill up the passenger seat middle and dashboard with freight. On that subject, I scaled at an actual weigh station, and rounded up to 5500 so I can take 3050 in a long and tall... They fixed it (again) couldn't tell me why it happened, they used a...

Great tip on parts!...hoping to not need gears, took only a squirt out of the bottle to top up, I noticed it quickly...they either forgot the seals or didn't torque the bearing nuts to 369 they told me it took a whole day (no special tools on hand?)

Terse reply. :D thanks for the vote on rearends being good, no experience with these yet . . . I'll continue to slow down just enough for comfort lest I get rear-ended by T.O. drivers. . . rearend was fine before they touched it I just want people to do what they say they are going to been...

Spent some quality time with the sprinter service manual. Only way I can see them failing is wrong seals or installed wrong, I know they replaced them, the used ones were in the box of old parts I got back . . . hope the bearings actually were OK after they pressed them on and off that might do...

Are they fairly strong? Do I need to slow down for railroad tracks? Trying to figure out how a shop could change backing plates and screw up the seals... I could have done it at the side of the road and it would have been fine... Never had an issue with leaking axle seals even at a million miles...

Almost makes me want to buy a Quattro again for a project car. You can still see them under tarps throughout my area (almost, but not quite :D)

Driving the couch to bed again . . . for those in that situation, I present to you "Big Mac vs molten copper" As pointless as my wasted time due to a shops botched van repair

I don't know about the US but if I stay under 10000 in Canada I could hang a sign and put a hundred vans on the road tomorrow...

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I'm thinkin now it's empty ride comfort. My other vans, potholes when empty sounded like a sledgehammer on a barrel, white knuckle waiting for wheels to fly off...no matter how long I was driving the fear factor was pretty energizing (Edit: based on fact, I've had too lower balljoint...

I just do my best and let dispatch argue. You're not going to change what anybody thinks, if they haven't done what we do, they don't get it. Today I was on a "MUST BE THERE BY 8 AM!" And I waited 30 min for it to load because of shift change, and it was sent to a wrong address, different town...