Higher mileage metris
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jaymacgthree
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I've heard many have head issues due to detonation from the Postal Service requiring them to use the fuel they are not rated for. Personally have seen almost all of them having bad right front struts and mounts (surprise), some severe coolant and oil leaks, sliding doors falling off, and turbo/vac issues from entirely clogged intake systems (VMF doing zero maintenance).
The Metris isn't a bad vehicle it's the abuse and absolute neglect by the VMF that is doing them in. Lots of other applications commercial, livery and as RVs you see them with 200,000 miles or more and they are fine but that is because they are maintained.
The Metris isn't a bad vehicle it's the abuse and absolute neglect by the VMF that is doing them in. Lots of other applications commercial, livery and as RVs you see them with 200,000 miles or more and they are fine but that is because they are maintained.
Tank
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What makes that even more frustrating is that VMF can see those problems remotely and they choose not to respond proactively.
Twistofcain
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Sliding doors falling off, hinge on driver door cracks, driver seat fabric wear, uneven tire wear, @80k miles transmission whining, charcoal filter every 25k miles, oil filter housing cracks and leaks, sliding doors don't close, parking break cable wears frequently, a/c stops working @70k miles, etc
jaymacgthree
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That is what boggles the mind, the system is all automated on newer vehicles and the telematics notify them at the correct intervals to maintain everything. They ignore it and complain carriers are rough on vehicles, or they have to save money... Waiting until a vehicle blows up and having to replace it instead of cheap maintenance doesn't make sense.
I know with a person that just retired from VMF and he told me the biggest issue is the higher up people just like for carriers, the issue is the higher ups. They sit behind desk and know more than the people DOING THE !@#$@#ING WORK.
He told me for example there was program that would tell them when to do the maintainance to do LLV in certain areas and it was set for every 9 months.
Example:
033 LLV would get worked on MTW
049 LLV would get worked TFS
056 LLV the following week
They completely changed this too.
Well what happen from he told me was that they changed programs and IT RESET THE 9 MONTH COUNT. They told higher ups and they told them to OBEY. Well think about it this way, if your vehicles were a month away from getting worked on, they would now have to wait another 9 months after they just were a month away. So 17 months without service. Then higher ups were mad that engine and other things were blowing up. VMF workers told them we tried to tell you but you wouldn't let us do our job right. They completely changed things how they were done. He basically said the same thing I did out USPS. It all changed just about the time I started as RCA around 2015-2017. VMF was decent job and now it is bad just the same as carrying mail isn't great job especially in certain offices.
I have more stories but that just shows you how !#@@%ED up the USPS is.
jaymacgthree
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We just had a Metris at VMF for a simple wheel bearing job for over 2 weeks. Came back with loss of turbo power and parking brake problem.
Pray they send your head gasket job back to the Mercedes dealer lol
I got the first one in our office 5 years ago and as soon as i drove it the first time I knew they would not last basically a soccer moms car to do 365 days of hard work year in year out .. they should have just done the mail trucks again with better engines and suspension ( heat and AC too ) would have been cheaper and faster and made in America too.
did i mention too small too in the driver area? love them for packages but hate them for mail, especially when you have box holders to rifle through.
did i mention too small too in the driver area? love them for packages but hate them for mail, especially when you have box holders to rifle through.
