[W126 Coupe] cAR fAX--dAVID fATOVIC

Tue Jul 11 06:09:00 EDT 2006

A system like CarFax only works because all the dealers subscribe to  
it, and maintain the central record.
Odds are (and I mean, they are strong odds) that the car was probably  
not serviced by official Mercedes-Benz
dealerships for most of it's life, so I do believe that "all she's  
been through" might be a mystery forever, and
the only clues you have is the car itself, and maybe the service  
history book if you still have it (and it's been updated).

Even my SEC, which was owned by a very wealthy (first and only)  
owner, whom I suspect only drove it for a few years while it was the
"best you could buy" and then parked it in the garage for most of  
it's life, had it serviced by non-official dealerships. So
though I have full service history in terms of invoices and entries  
in the service book, I cannot go to a M-B dealer and
ask them for the full history of the car... I would be surprised if  
you could do the same.

Why not send some pics of your car? Then we can all see what you're  
up against :-)

kind regards.

On 11 Jul 2006, at 11:51 vm., Kivendren Moodliyar wrote:

> I absolutely agree… Why waste Millions of Rands on this…. When it  
> could be put to better use.
>
> If you have some contact that will allow me to view the previous  
> history on my 380SEC this would help… I mean this car has been  
> through a lot and id like to know all that she has been through so  
> that I can restore her to ultimate spec.
>
>
>
> Empowering Small Business Enterprises and strengthening our Nation
>
> From: mbcoupes-bounces at mbcoupes.com [mailto:mbcoupes- 
> bounces at mbcoupes.com] On Behalf Of Dawid Loubser
> Sent: 11 July 2006 11:00 AM
> To: Mercedes Coupes Mailing Lists
> Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] cAR fAX--dAVID fATOVIC
>
>
>
> Kivendren,
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>
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> To my understanding (and as mentioned earlier in this thread)  
> Carfax is a U.S. -only system, i.e. all cars sold and
>
> serviced there have a central record which is maintained by  
> dealerships over the years.
>
>
>
> The best you can do in South Africa (well, while it's still called  
> that, with the idiots in government currently
>
> changing everything from Airports, Streets and Provinces to whipe  
> out the influence from the "evil" white
>
> man - sorry, this is really pissing me off) is to ask your local  
> Mercedes-Benz dealer for a full history on your
>
> car (there is a particular name for this, but I forgot).
>
>
>
>
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>
>
> Continuing my rant (let's get this over with) - what the **** is a  
> more sensible name? The (current) Johannebsurg International
>
> Airport (it is situated in Johannesburg, After All) or OR Tumbo  
> International Airport? This is just to provoke politics again.  
> After the
>
> white government handed over the country in 1994, the plan was to  
> work together to build a new country. Part of this
>
> process was choosing neutral place and airport names (they changed  
> it from Jan Smuts International Airport in
>
> 1994 for that very purpose), but now they have to go and rename  
> every last single thing (again), making every white person in this
>
> country (if you haven't been killed yet, or driven out by the  
> intolerable crime and infrastructure problems) feel totally unwanted
>
> and depressed.
>
>
>
> Those of you in Europe and the U.S. (even though I do not  
> particularly condone everything your government is doing) - you have
>
> no idea how lucky you are. I am a white person in a country where I  
> am hated and discriminated against because of my colour,
>
> yet when all this stuff happened I was only a kid, I had nothing to  
> do with the politics. We have to see bit by bit how everything we
>
> hold dear (monuments, place names, historic accounts, ...) get  
> broken down and changed, how money gets spent on this yet
>
> there are such incredibly serious other problems to take care of  
> (there is, for example, no viable public transport, anywhere,
>
> whatsoever).
>
>
>
> This whole place is a joke - and the Soccer World Cup in 2010 will  
> be a monumental failure in my opinion. Yet our President
>
> goes and states that this will be better than Germany's, and (just  
> to rub it in, again, 12 years later) has to make yet another statement
>
> in front of the international community about how we risen above  
> the shackles of Apartheid. We know this!!!!
>
>
>
> I wish they would god damn get off it, and just work to make this a  
> better country than what it is. Sorry, I know this list is not the  
> place,
>
> this is just a fellow SEC-driver who is feeling very threatened and  
> depressed by his country today.
>
>
>
> Kivendren, as an Indian, I guess you feel sort-of half-way between  
> all this. The hate throes of our government are targeted against
>
> whites specifically, but all the discriminating policies like BEE  
> (Black Employment Equity) also do not favour indians, but specifically
>
> only blacks... >From your signature, however, I deduce that you  
> work for a BEE company though.
>
>
>
> *sigh* Most of the time I manage to not let all this get to me, and  
> just enjoy life. Anyway, this list helps me better appreciate one  
> of the
>
> aspects of my life enjoyment :-)
>
>
>
>
>
> kind regards, and returning soon with more SEC-questions.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 11 Jul 2006, at 9:42 vm., Kivendren Moodliyar wrote:
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>
>
>
> Bob I am from South Africa, pls run a carfax on my 380SEC VIN  
> number: 1260436A010501
>
> Empowering Small Business Enterprises and strengthening our Nation
>
> From: mbcoupes-bounces at mbcoupes.com [mailto:mbcoupes- 
> bounces at mbcoupes.com] On Behalf Of Bob Rodgers
> Sent: 11 July 2006 01:32 AM
> To: mbcoupes at mbcoupes.com
> Subject: [W126 Coupe] cAR fAX--dAVID fATOVIC
>
> David, I ran a carfax on your car. If you send me your email  
> address I will forward to you. I don't know how to do it thru the  
> MB list. My email is bobrod at cox.net
>
> Bob Rodgers
>
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