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- Subject: Re: Recommendations re: 82/83/84 Mercedes....
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.004911.2848@koko.csustan.edu>
- From: james@koko.csustan.edu (Jonas Grumpy)
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 00:49:11 GMT
- References: <10570@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>
- Organization: CSU Stanislaus
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- In article <10570@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall) writes:
- >If someone has a recommendation for or against the 82, 83 or 84 Mercedes
- >models, I'd sure appreciate a little insight. In particular, the 300
- >turbo-diesel models.
- >
- >I have an old '77 300D, which I bought very cheap because it has a lot
- >of things wrong with it. At this point, I've driven it enough to know
- >that I really like MB's, and would like to get a better one. (Mine is
- >a former taxicab, and really is not worth spending money on. The body
- >has a *lot* of rust, the A/C needs complete replacement, etc.)
- >
- >I figure that I can sell mine for a couple of thousand, and puttting that
- >together with some savings, can come up with about $7000 cash. Looking
- >at the car ads, it appears that for that amount, I can probably get a
- >turbo-diesel somewhere in the 1982-83-84 range, with around 100K (more
- >or less) milage, that has been serviced regularly and is in good shape.
-
- For that much money you can get your self a nice digitally fuel injected
- BMW 528e '82 or later. This car burns clean and gets good gas mileage.
- Diesel mbz's are very expensive to repair. At 100k miles the car has
- a good chance of being in need of a rebuild, unless it was taken care of
- in which case 100k miles has not really broken the engine in yet.
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