RalphVa
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Our car for 25 years
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RoyJackson
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Those old 240D Mercedes do go a long long time!
I've always like the 300D Turbos...even better, a 300TD. You could get some great deals on the turbo cars. If the turbo failed, it was a pretty expensive repair at your local M-B dealer and the cars were sold far below market value. If you had the skills to pull the turbo and rebuild it, it was a $200 repair.
I've always like the 300D Turbos...even better, a 300TD. You could get some great deals on the turbo cars. If the turbo failed, it was a pretty expensive repair at your local M-B dealer and the cars were sold far below market value. If you had the skills to pull the turbo and rebuild it, it was a $200 repair.
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OldMcDonald
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A man after my own heart. I always aim to make the depreciation on a car the minimum possible by driving it as long as it will go, but more often I move country first. Always buy an oldie too, but never bothered much about looks or make so long as it goes.
I do like a big comfortable car though. I presently own the smallest car I have ever had, because they are horrendously expensive here - used cars and tractors are just about the only things that are. I paid €5000 for a 10 yo Opel Astra 1.4 13 years and two weeks ago (when I first arrived) and have not found a reason to part with it yet.
There are big numbers of Mercs in Portugal. A lot of new ones amongst the wealthy and a lot of very ancient ones amongst the not so wealthy. They seem to go on forever. A big advantage of somewhere that does not get snow is the lack of corrosion from salt and chemicals thrown about by the road maintenance people.
I do like a big comfortable car though. I presently own the smallest car I have ever had, because they are horrendously expensive here - used cars and tractors are just about the only things that are. I paid €5000 for a 10 yo Opel Astra 1.4 13 years and two weeks ago (when I first arrived) and have not found a reason to part with it yet.
There are big numbers of Mercs in Portugal. A lot of new ones amongst the wealthy and a lot of very ancient ones amongst the not so wealthy. They seem to go on forever. A big advantage of somewhere that does not get snow is the lack of corrosion from salt and chemicals thrown about by the road maintenance people.
mapper
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The 180D was a late fifties car, I learned how to drive in one that my folks owned. Forty two horsepower, four speed manual transmission - on the steering column! You really had to work at getting. A speeding ticket with that one.
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Now thats a real Beauty..
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RalphVa
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Roy, that ones' nice. I saw a beater of that one in Harris Teeter lot a couple days ago.
Went looking for another 240D. Didn't like any of them. People typically beat them up.
Ralph
Went looking for another 240D. Didn't like any of them. People typically beat them up.
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RalphVa
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We go up Afton Mountain west of here once/week to Church now. The 240D was fine as long as you could keep it above 65 mph. Get behind something slower, and you'd be down to 55 mph in 3rd gear until you topped the mountain.
It badly needed the turbo like the 300Ds had. Our Jetta TDI doesn't know there's a mountain there.
The 240D was about the easier car in the world to work on. Woulda been great if it just had about 100 hp instead of its 65. Greatest lights of any car we've ever had, with those big fogs in addition to the regular 2 lights. My wife hardly ever used the brights on it, but she blinded everyone with those perfectly legal big fogs.
Ralph
It badly needed the turbo like the 300Ds had. Our Jetta TDI doesn't know there's a mountain there.
The 240D was about the easier car in the world to work on. Woulda been great if it just had about 100 hp instead of its 65. Greatest lights of any car we've ever had, with those big fogs in addition to the regular 2 lights. My wife hardly ever used the brights on it, but she blinded everyone with those perfectly legal big fogs.
Ralph
Definitely something about those 240D cars.....
I was killing time in a shopping mall one day, and ended up chatting with another guy doing the same. Started out talking about problems on trucks.... turned into one of those wide-ranging conversations that happens when a couple of gear-heads bump into each other. It was quickly obvious that he was a car guy who happened to have some serious $ to play with - between him and his brother, they'd owned just about everything you could imagine.
That conversation stayed with me. The first reason was - no airs and graces.... he was just a gear-head who happened to be rich. The other reason was the last thing he said..... "Of all the iron I've owned, there is one that I'll never sell - my 240D".
Rgds, D.
