This seems to be a case of trying to defend the indefensible, and, judging from a subsequent post, getting snarky about it. First of all, what reasonable person who is not a complete moron buys a car without knowing whether an important amenity like the A/C is working, let alone without even asking how to turn it on, if asking should actually be necessary?
Secondly those buttons are hardly a mystery. The only one that might need looking up is the one marked “EC”, which a few seconds of Googling reveals to be an “Economy” button that turns the A/C off and illuminates a red light, and that otherwise in that particular vehicle the A/C is designed to be on by default and cool air is obtained by rotating the climate control temperature dial to the desired temperature. If the EC light will not turn off, or if it does and cool air does not come out of the vents when the temperature is dialed down, then the A/C is bust. In that case the more enterprising can actually learn how to obtain diagnostic codes. All the preceding: the result of about 20 seconds with Google.
I noticed later going to the full thread in which this was linked that other posters had also Googled the issue and come to the same conclusion. One even sent him a link to the owner’s manual for the car which dougie claimed didn’t exist anywhere. One might wonder why he couldn’t do this himself, but since he asks later what “Skype” is (he’s heard of it but doesn’t know what it is) one presumes that he also hasn’t heard of the Google or how to use it. In short, either an idiot or a troll.
OK, I don’t believe dougie_montie paid much for the car and, from the posts he made when he got the car, I don’t think he had much opportunity to question the previous owner much. IIRC, the whole deal was a way for him to get a car on a limited income. I am really not trying to defend anyone (**dougie_montie **is certainly capable of defending himself). I don’t really think it is snarky to point out that someone who accuses someone else of being either an idiot or a troll doesn’t really know what he is talking about.
This explains a lot. You don’t know what you are talking about, either; you are just repeating something you read on the internet. I doubt dougie_montie’s car has any “red light” that illuminates when the “EC” button is pressed. Not to say that it is defective, but that the instructions you read were not written for the equipment in his car. But, of course, if all you are going to invest is 20 seconds of Google, you can’t really expect to find out anything significant, can you?
Actually, as far as I can tell, dougie_montie was correct. None of the links for owner’s manuals posted in that other thread were for his car. I know, hard to believe some of what you find with Google isn’t 100% factual, but there you have it. The 1994 Mercedes C280 is a bit of a bastard. Technically, the C-series cars did not come out until 1995. A lot of “new” features were introduced with the C-series that were not available in 1994. There were a few C280s built (although I am not sure they were built for the US market), and exactly how they were equipped from the factory is unclear. My point is that “LMGTFY” really is a bit dickish if you aren’t going to follow-up to chop away all the bullshit Google throws your way when you use it. Of course, that assumes you are intelligent enough to recognize bullshit when you see it.
So, just out of curiosity, how many times would you need to drive to Riverside in 90 degree weather before you started pushing those five buttons to see what would happens?
I think he knows how the A/C works, he’s just making up shit so his whining seems more justified. In that same thread, he also complains about the cost of parking, before admitting he gets free parking with his disabled placard and he gets reimbursed for the expenses anyway.
Well, donkeyoatey has always been a bit of a prick. Like many of us. Except I would never suggest directly to mumof4 that zombie apocalypses are totally five years ago and the only thing mysterious about Easter Island is why anybody with a boat or the price of an airplane ticket would stay. I’m a different sort of prick, more passive aggressive, and prefer to do it out of her eyeshot.
Well, just to deal with this one point, if dougie was a cat, I don’t think he’d be capable of defending himself against any reasonably assertive mouse.
I’m reluctant to move from a neutral opinion of yourself to the assessment as “obviously an idiot”, which may not be justified, so I will withhold judgment here while pointing out the following facts.
It was you, not me, who posted a picture of what was supposed to be the A/C controls on his car. Are you able to comprehend this extremely relevant piece of information?
Based on your allegedly faultless assessment of what the controls were supposed to look like, I simply pointed out that they were not nearly as mysterious as you and your pal dougie thought they were, and that the symbols made perfect sense to most people familiar with cars and equipped with a working brain, and that “EC” meant to turn off the A/C which was always on by default. IOW, the amazing trick to turning on the A/C in that car is to do nothing, because it’s always on and all you do is adjust the temperature. If the actual controls on his car look completely different than that, then you shouldn’t have posted a picture that was misleading and completely irrelevant to the discussion. But from what I can tell, the general principle I described applies to all the C280 series of that model year and many subsequent ones.
What I find amazing about that thread is how quickly it Godwinized. (Of course, I shouldn’t.) Ol’ Derek’s winning debate style leads people to semi-preposterous positions that America has done nothing good, certainly nothing original, and should be reduced to nuclear glass. Or something.
You have to remember that Derek has reminded us at least half a dozen times, most recently just a few days ago, of how awesomely enlightened and liberal he is, and how he is a “Clinton Democrat”. Sadly, the lad is feeling a bit put out these days because apparently the Democrats have moved so far to the left that they’re basically Marxists now, and even Republicans have gotten far too liberal. I guess it’s hard to be a good moderate liberal with all this Marxism floating about.
But at least our enlightened liberal friend can post extremely liberal threads like the one above, apparently sourced verbatim from some driveling lunatic jingoist on late-night talk radio, and start speculative threads on Republican chances in 2020 – because rooting for Republicans is something that all liberals and Democrats are always doing. Meanwhile I presume he will be voting for Trump even though The Donald is far too much of a leftie and too soft on Muslims.
My favorite…troll?..gibberish-spouting loon?..is back after a month hiatus, and Dunmurry is interested and hoping for more comments and thoughts and so on actually then. I eagerly await his next new thread then.
A real gem, that one: 159 posts in 14 years, of which 110 are thread starters, and none make any sense. A true master of run-on unpunctuated illiteracy. His most remarkable hiatus was the ten years of blessed absence prior to 2014, but as Colibri speculated, someone must have inadvertently said his name three times, and poof!
